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Long before the beaches around Cancun were a tourist Mecca for Mexico vacations, surfers were flocking to Matanchen Bay in northern Nayarit. Since the 1950s, hundreds of surf spots up and down the 2,000 miles of Mexico's tropical coastline have been found. Some of them are in the middle of nowhere, while others are near small fishing villages and still others are next to major cities.
For die-hard surfers, the year-round long points, reefs and hollow beachbreaks make it worth the effort of trekking down long, rutted roads and camping out in order to surf the best spots. For the casual surfing crowd, they would prefer a place with comfortable rooms and a few good restaurants like Puerto Escondido. This spot also happens to be the country's gold standard of surfing, nicknamed the Mexican Pipeline because the shape and power of the waves resemble Oahu's famous Banzai Pipeline.
