Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa Message Board - hiking ciclopista

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DonInPennsylvania — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:05:19 +0000

Thanks.
Don't know why I Googled and Binged instead of posting here right away!

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D-Loco — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:51:36 +0000

Walking from Ixtapa to Play Linda you can go around past Emillios or thru the Marina and golf course and come on Bike Path. I prefer walking to Playa Linda on the road/sidewalks/bike path rather than behind the mountain. Hills are little steeper for a better workout and you get more of a breeze off the ocean.

Tennis shoes or walking shoes are fine.

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DonInPennsylvania — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:05:41 +0000

Hi Rob, we didn't intend to do all of it, just one part (even though we are serious hikers/ex-climbers...but aging), and what you recommend is what we were leaning toward; so thanks for the final push. I did check your map before when I did an archives search on "Aztlan" and found some YouTube vids which were not very helpful.
BTW, one of our day-after-arrival stops is the Boutique, where my wife seems to always get something which is mostly white. This time thanks to the Board and elsewhere we know a lot about her, what she's done/tried to do for Zihua, exactly where her home was, etc.
P.S. auto-login doesn't work for me even though cookies are accepted; any idea?

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ZihuaRob — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:26:42 +0000

That's quite a long walk, Don, and I believe you would enjoy the last part the most, the part that goes from Paseo de las Garzas to Playa Linda. If you start at the Pemex station across from the Instituto Tecnológico de la Costa Grande you will be tired before reaching the top of the hill. Not to mention all the car fumes you'll breathe along the way. If I were going to make the walk I would start early in the morning as soon around 7am as possible either from the Pelícanos housing development or from the Ixtapa Palace, being sure to carry plenty of water with me. It's a long hot hike, but in the early morning you're more likely to see deer and other local fauna.

You can follow part of the walking path via Google Street View if you open up the Google Map on my Maps page in a larger window (see the link below the map) and drag the little "yellow man" into the street.

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DonInPennsylvania — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:16:15 +0000

Thanks for your help!

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ixiron — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:37:21 +0000

If you wanted to take a bus or taxi and not walk the hill part up from Zihua get them to drop you off just after you go under the return to Zihua overpass and the ciclopista is on the right. Stay on it and it takes you down into Los Viveros (you can see it as you start down the hill down on the right) which is very well kept and is a part of the ciclopista. If you stay on it you will eventually come out at the main road to Ixtapa by the flea market. There you can hop on a bus to Playa Linda and get off at the entrance to the reserva. Once starting on the reserva there is only the beginning and end to get out no intermediary exits. The reserva part ends at Playa Linda and you can get a bus from there back to Zihua. The choice besides the reserva is OK but follows the road and there are a few steep ups and downs.

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Hunter-MX — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:52:28 +0000

The cyclopista starts at the base of the hill going out of Zihua just past the PEMEX. It goes all the way to Playa Linda, through the ecoreserve. You can do it in normal tennis with no problem. Parts are along the road, through the reserve goes behind a mountain and along an estuary. I recommend mornings. Watch the cyclists, they can be quite rude and certainly do not follow the "slow" rules.

It is a great walk, lot's of birds and wildlife along the way. If you tire you can stop most anywhere and get the bus back.

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DonInPennsylvania — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:15:43 +0000

What can any of you tell me about hiking (not biking) the Ciclopista, the part from Instituto Technologica to Ixtapa and/or the part from Ixtapa to Playa Linda? Which part do you recommend, what time of day (early morning, early evening perhaps?), do we need our hiking boots, etc.
I have Googled and searched on this Board and looked at maps including Rob's reference, but the maps are at least to me ambiguous, so i still have this question re the Ixtapa to Playa Linda part: for the NWern part if we cut out the Marina/golfcourse section and take the bus toward Playa Linda, where does the path cross the road and head away from the coast (would like to save the time and effort hiking along roads)?
Ditto, for the part from Zihua, where do we pick it up to minimize hiking along the road? And will we need a (hopefully non-UTAAZ) taxi to get to that "cheat point"?
Thanks a lot.