M E X I C O - PART
II
 |
| Everybody happy on the first boat ride in the morning to the beautiful surf spot “La Caleta” |
P
U E R T O C H A C A L A (July 18th – 19th,
2016)
After
my very comfortable flight from Huatulco to Guadalajara, I took a expensive
taxi to the new Bus Terminal of Guadalajara and had no idea where to go.
Haven’t really thought about when I left, but I roughly had the idea to either
go to Chacala or San Pancho. None of the buses went directly to these two
destinations and it was already late, but I finally decided to take the next
bus towards to coast, as the surf forecast looked very good for the next day.
Arrived three hours later in the middle of nowhere, took another expensive taxi
and finally arrived to my desired destination Puerto Chacala at 2am in the
morning. Together with the taxi driver I found a nice place to stay, it took
some time, because the whole town was sleeping, but finally had a bed and was
happy. A very long long day!
The
next day I woke up more or less early and met 4 really nice Mexicans and we
shared a boat ride to a completely uncrowded spot called “La Caleta”. Had a
really good time surfing with my new Mexican friends and in the afternoon, we
wanted to go for a second session. The company offering the boat rides appeared
to me from the beginning a bit unprofessional, being really expensive and the
boat drivers were strange.
Unluckily,
this time our boat driver wanted to make some fun during the boat ride and in a
way wanted to impress us by maneuvering the boat into a wave, where appeared to
be a set wave and at some stage the boat couldn’t escape the wave anymore and our boat got wiped out, everybody was flying
around like in a car crash, cameras, iPhones, surfboards, humans. A couple of
minutes later, everybody stranded on the rocky coast and by a wonder most of us
were not injured, only Samuel and the boat driver got hit by the boat.
Well, I lost my
600€ DSLR camera, cheap smartphone, my expensive reef boots and got major
damages on my surfboard, but I felt so happy and lucky at that time not to be
dead or majorly injured, that these lost belongings didn’t matter anymore to
me. Shit happens!
But on the
other side I met really nice people from Mexico and had a good time in San
Pancho living together with Andrés and Fernanda. San Pancho is nice for surfing
but not the best spot. But for any person who is not looking after surfing –
San Pancho is the place to be, such a good vibe, beautiful and … just check it
out!
 |
| Getting into the water “indonesian style” – by boat |
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | ||
 | |
|
 | |
|
 |
| Playa "Arroyo Seco" - Completely untouched and nobody out surfing - only me in decent overhead sets and bigger! |
P
L A Y A M A N Z N I L L A & A R R O Y O S E C O (July 22nd – 23rd,
2016)
After
the last surf together with Fernanda, I took a bus going south to the small
beach town of Playa Manzanilla. Was not as easy for me arriving there, as
touristic infrastructure is not as far developed and I have barely met foreign
visitors. But luckily I met a very friendly Mexican guy, who has lived all his
life in California. Blas was so kind to show the around in the town and drive
me the next morning super early to the small village Arroyo Seco, 20mins away.
Playa chica is the place to surf and nobody was out, but heavy and big waves! I
got maybe six waves and was happy after it, that I didn’t get too many wipeouts.
Definitely a secret spot this beach and something you should save for a later
surf trip, when having a car. After that I took various buses to Manzanillo and
from there over Tecoman to the famous wave “La Ticla”.
 |
| Nice lookout spot to the bay of Manzanilla – Around this area there are hundreds of unknown surfspots where nobody surfs. Definitely a place to come back to when having a car in Mexico! |
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
L
A T I C L A (July 23rd – 28th,
2016)
Having
arrived in the late afternoon, the waves looked good and after a tasty dinner,
which was offered me by Tom, a kind fellow from California, I surfed another
two hours in the evening. Great waves, no doubt! The next days I stayed at La
Ticla, I was together with some people from Argentinia, Mexico and Slowakia the
only people left on the spot and we all became good surfing buddies. Check out
the pics, they will tell you the rest of the story.
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 | |
|
 |
| Rio Nexpa helps during the rain season creating perfect sandbanks out in the lineup |
R
I O N E X P A (July 28rd – August 2nd,
2016)
My
very last days surfing in Mexico, the last days with endless untouched palm
tree beaches but also the moment to leave soon to California, as I was on the
road for a long time and I’m looking forward to have a home base at Chris’
place in San Clemente.
For
my birthday on the 30th of July, a very big swell had been proposed
and finally all of us scored a lot of nice waves, check out the following pics!
 |
| Rio Nexpa the village is pretty small, but has a beautiful atmosphere |
 |
| The spot from the terrace of our Hotel |
 |
| Early in the morning! Barrels!!! |
 |
| Saturday morning happiness |
 |
| Sunrise Surfer |
 |
| Tubooooo (almost) |
 |
| Sunset on the lonesome black sand beach of Rio Nexpa |
 |
| Sunday was also full of great waves! |
 |
| Even if it got a bit bigger - but just perfect! |
 |
| I met another German guy, Andi, who has successfully written two books about surfing and you can see that there are a lot of good german surfers out there! |
 |
| Jeremias also getting some good waves backside |
 |
| Riding up a very nice wave on Sunday |
 |
| We got these nice shots from some Argentinien people, who also stayed at our place! |
 |
| On Monday, it was already time to leave... I had to go to an doctor to get my dirty ears cleaned (in order to prevent an ear infection!!) and like this I went to Lazaro Cardenas and from there to Mexico City, Jeremias took a couple of buses up north to go back to Sayulita. |
 |
| The second largest city in the world from above - Torre Latinoamericana makes it possible! |
After
a long ride from Lazaro Cardenas to the Distrito Federal, to Mexico City, the
second largest city in the world, I had some more time to get prepared for
California, see the city and meet some of my Mexican friends in the capital.
 |
| Walking through the super crowded streets of D.F. (Distrito Federal - thats how Mexicans call their capital) can be very stressful, especially if you search for a doctor! |
 |
| Streetart everywhere you look in D.F., but also in the other cities in Mexico |
 |
| Having breakfast on the Rooftop terrace of Hotel Zocálo |
 |
| With a brilliant view on the main square of the historic center |
 |
| Strolling through the Parque Alameda |
 |
| Oh thats a big tower, lets get up there! |
 |
| Great view on top! |
 |
| During the day .... |
Yesterday I wanted to see some other parts of the city, I took the metro and went to a current very posh part of it, La Condesa. And then out of the middle of nowhere, Andrés, who I know from San Pancho was standing behind me. He saw me longboarding out of his Uber taxi and then told the driver to immediately stop the car!!! 20.000.000 people in Mexico City and I our ways just crossed somewhere! What a coincidence!
The rest of the day was pretty cool, I got shown around in a lot of places, which I didn't know before, we went having lunch in a very nice restaurant, had some beers on the rooftop terrace of a recording studio and were watching how a young band recorded a new song, after that we went to a inauguration of a art exposition and had great food and drinks sponsored by the Dutch Embassy and finally went to a interesting concert in a really cool location. No pics this time, you have to imagine everything of it, but imagination can do great things!
And right now. Off to SAN DIEGO! I miss Latin America already a lot, but you always gotta look forward and then just book a flight and come back!
Lets do it California!
Bis bald,
Andreas
