This browser does not support the video element. Mexico has mighty swells for surfing and placid bays with barely a ripple, beaches backed by ancient ruins and shores packed with modern resort towers.

When the swell is just right you’ll have A-frames up and down the beach at Playa Zicatela. It can be a very fun, rippable kind of wave. Decades of spot-specific swell info — combined with forecaster ...

My main character moment is interrupted by a text from a friend back in London: “One more Instagram story of your trip, and I might have to block you.” A winter escape to the coast of Oaxaca will make ...

During a six-day visit to Puerto Escondido, a scruffy, though charming beach town in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, my family and I joined Mexican families, European vagabonds and surf bums for ...

Despite being a firm favorite with surfers and backpackers, Puerto Escondido, on the Oaxacan coast of southern Mexico, has remained under the mainstream tourism radar for years. The lack of big resort ...

“It’s one the heaviest, most iconic big wave spots on earth,” says Harmon. “Dark brown, sharky water, massive waves…it’s a serious wave. Everything about it is terrifying…Two of the best big wave ...

MEXICO HAS mighty swells for surfing and placid bays with barely a ripple, beaches backed by ancient ruins and shores packed with modern resort towers. There are mangroves, cliffs and stretches of ...