This is how the nudist festival 2019 was lived on the beach of Zipolite in Oaxaca

For the fourth consecutive year, in the tourist port of Zipolite, in Oaxaca, this weekend the very special nudist festival 2019, attended by about 5,000 national and foreign tourists.

It's the only festival of its kind in Mexico and since its first edition, in 2016, it has been a success for Zipolite tourism service providers and nearby beaches such as Puerto Angel, San Agustinillo, Mazunte.

Located in the municipality of San Pedro Pochutla, Zipolite has always been a "naturist" destination, especially its famous "beach of love", where all year round, tourists enjoy taking bad sunbathing.

In 2016, the municipal authorities decided to make this tradition a tourist activity benefiting from official support and launched the festival, which in previous editions, this meant a hotel occupancy ranging from 80% to 95%, according to the mayor of Pochutla, Saymi Pineda.

The success of the festival was of such magnitude that this year the hotel demand resabasó the capacity of the port, extending to other destinations, said the mayor, the first woman to govern in the municipality.

To guarantee the safety of visitors, the municipality has badigned a group of elements of the municipal police and civil protection, who also benefit from the support of the Ministry of Public Safety, State Fire Services and paramedics of the Mexican Red Cross.

In this year's edition, the Zipolite Nudist Festival has proposed activities such as nudist yoga on the beach, volleyball and body painting, naked marine circuit, nudist cyclist, surf lessons and night walk with neon lights.

This year too the "spartan race" with obstacles was included all over the beach, talent evening, official sunset picture Sunday at the "beach of love" and the farewell concert with the American singer from Oaxaca, Lila Downs.

Visitors who came to Zipolite to say "without clothes" come from Veracruz, Jalisco, Baja California, Mexico City, Guanajuato, Queretaro, Nuevo Leon, Puebla, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guerrero, Sinaloa, Michoacan and Morelos. as well as southern states of the United States and Canada.

Among the novelties of the fourth edition of the festival, an application has been launched in which participants can view the program of activities in real time and the location of each person's starting points.

With the impulse of the nudist festival, Zipolite has gone from three so-called "naturist" hotels, where their guests can walk in bare facilities, to more than 10 places this allows it.

This destination is also the first "Option Nudist Beach" in Mexico, an official certificate that allows visitors to be safe authorities and tolerance of the community.