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Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo are two different places, separated by just 7 kilometers (4 miles). Ixtapa is a carefully planned tourist resort, born in 1972. It has a hotel area 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) long, located along "Del Palmar" beach.
In this beautiful landscape you will find shopping centers, built as if they were located in a small town, golf courses and a 600 boat Marina.
Zihuatanejo, on the other hand, is an old fishermen town, located in a picturesque protected bay 2.6 kilometers (1.5 miles) wide. Its original name was Cihuatlan that means, "Place of women". This small town has cobblestone streets near the beach, typical restaurants and famous shops, as well as traditions and friendly people, an ideal place to explore.
Feedback from Linda Barber, on inspection tour for Travelwizard.com.
"Zihuantanejo itself was interesting. A small fishing village with periodic bouts of tourists. Palm trees, green hills, steep rocky shorelines. Small shops line the streets, many shops appeared to have the same items, cotton shirts, sombreros, the ubiquitos jewellery shops...I did buy a mexican fire opal pendant (in Acapulco)....restaurants, pay for banos, what I liked was that the locals outnumbered the tourists on the beaches...apparently it is custom for families to hit the beaches on Boxing day, I didn't see any litter on the streets, no spray paint graffitti, the sidewalks were uneven and some storefronts seemed to have made their own patterned sidewalk so one had to watch where you were stepping.
One of our tour guides was explaining that the school children all wear uniforms and if they talk bad to the teacher they are sent home, three times and you have to repeat your grade...this makes for respectful children and you can see it on the streets in the lack of grafitti and litter. The vendors of course had to come visit while we were having a cold cervesa but I did not find them overly aggressive nor rude. I did notice that the quality of the mexican cotton clothing did seem to be less and there seemed to be more factory made items than a few years ago....too bad."
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