Puerto Escondido vs Mazunte: Where to Elope on the Oaxaca Coast
The lively surf town with its dramatic beaches against the tiny, spiritual magic-town down the coast. Two sides of Oaxaca's Pacific, and two very different elopements.
You settle on the Oaxaca coast and have to choose your base.
Puerto Escondido and Mazunte are an hour apart and worlds apart in spirit.
Puerto Escondido is the lively surf town; Mazunte is the tiny, spiritual magic-town. Two very different Oaxaca elopements.
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Puerto Escondido is bigger and livelier, with world-class surf, dramatic beaches, more restaurants and lodging, and real energy. It suits couples who want the wild Pacific with some buzz, variety of beaches, and things to do around the ceremony.
Puerto Escondido
Puerto Escondido is bigger and livelier, with world-class surf, dramatic beaches, more restaurants and lodging, and real energy. It suits couples who want the wild Pacific with some buzz, variety of beaches, and things to do around the ceremony.
Mazunte
Mazunte is a tiny designated magic-town with a spiritual, bohemian soul: a turtle sanctuary, meditation and yoga, quiet coves, and the sacred sunset headland of Punta Cometa. It is smaller, calmer, and more soulful, for couples who want stillness and meaning over energy.
Choose Puerto Escondido for lively surf-town energy, Mazunte for spiritual stillness, or pair them across a trip. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day, coordinate the ceremony, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the two are the wild and the sacred faces of the Oaxaca coast.
Surf town or magic-town? Let the Elopement Compass choose your Oaxaca coast →
