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Things To Do

  • Relax! Eat great Mexican food (all safe and clean). Sit by the pool and read a book.

  • Sit in the hotel dining room and talk and drink (smoothies, papaya juice, margaritas, etc.).

  • Sit on the beach and watch the surfers.

  • Walk, taxi or boat to other Puerto Escondido beaches such as Carrizalillo, Angelito, Bacocho.

  • Go out in a boat, see the coast from the water. The boatman will probably find a giant turtle for you to look at close up.

  • See fabulous sunsets. Go horse-back riding on the beach.

  • Play in the ocean. Go fishing. Go surfing. Swim laps in the pool. Play in the pool.

  • Watch the fishermen selling the catch of the day on the town beach in the early morning.

  • Explore Puerto Escondido, both the tourist and non-tourist parts.

  • Walk or jog the four miles round trip along the beach to the point.

  • Visit the coffee plantation, Finca Las Nieves.

  • Take a boat ride on the Manialtepec lagoon. There are lots of exotic birds in the morning. At night you can boat and swim among the eerily phosphorescent algae.

  • Release baby sea turtles. See the giant sea turtles coming in to lay their eggs.

  • Take surf classes

  • Take a fascinating walking tour with Gina.

  • Visit The National Park of Chacahua

  • Go to The Reforma waterfalls.

  • Go uptown to the Market on market day (Saturday)

  • Go to Puerto Angel and explore the town and the beaches.

  • Go to the turtle museum in Mazunte.

Puerto Escondido is located on the Pacific Coast of the State of Oaxaca

The Hotel Santa Fe faces two beautiful beaches, the Marinero Beach and the Zicatela Beach. We are only 10 minutes from the Puerto Escondido International Airport (PXM).

There are direct one-hour flights from Mexico City every day on the airlines Aeromar and VivaAerobus. Interjet and Volaris also comes from Mexico City several days a week, and Volaris has non-stop flights from Guadalajara twice a week.

You can also arrive via Huatulco (HUX) which is located about 1 ½ hours south of Puerto Escondido. There are flights to Huatulco from Mexico City on Interjet, Magnicharter and Aeromexico. Sunwing brings charter flights from several Canadian cities. Taxis from Huatulco to Puerto Escondido cost about 1800 pesos. Or, outside of the airport you can catch a bus to Puerto Escondido at a much lower price.

From the City of Oaxaca, Aerotucan has 40-minute flights to Puerto Escondido and Huatulco.

Puerto Escondido itself did not exist as a modern town until the 1920’s, when the owners of the great coffee fincas (farms) in the foothills decided that the protected bay of this lovely little town made an ideal and convenient port for shipping coffee and other products of the region. The creation of the Carretera costal (coastal highway) along the Pacific coast in the 1960’s and the later paving of the highway to Oaxaca, opened the area to tourism and was the beginning of real growth in Puerto Escondido. In the nearly 25 years that the Hotel Santa Fe has been in Puerto, the town has grown from a small fishing village of 3,000 people to a thriving town of more than 50,000 people. This growth has been due to Puerto Escondido’s importance as a regional center for agriculture, education, commerce, fishing and tourism and has resulted in the town becoming a vibrant community rather than just a tourist destination. HISTORY The western part of the state of Oaxaca has a history going back more than 2500 years. The Chatino, Zapotec, Mixtec and Aztec cultures all played a significant role in the pre-hispanic history of this regiion. An hour inland, above Puerto, is the ancient Chatino town of Santo Reyes Nopala, the pre-Columbian center of the Chatino kingdom, a site of great archeological and cultural importance. An hour to the north of Puerto is the town of San Pedro Tututepec, the former capital of the Mixtec empire, another site of great significance. Even closer to Puerto, sites along the Rio Verde indeicate very early and important settlements and ceremonial centers. The coast also has some communities with an African heritage, whose ancestors worked on an early slave plantation. In addition there is a long and rich Spanish colonial history. Thus this part of the state has a complex interweaving of indigenous, Spanish and African cultures. Indigenous people of Zapotec, Mixtec and Chatino descent still live in the hills above Puerto Esondido in villages little changed by modern times. These villages are accessible still by the trails and dirt roads that have been used for hundreds of years for the flow of goods and people among their communities and between their communities and the state capital and the coast.