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Waterslide at Sea Life Park – Puerto Vallarta Waterpark
I got shot down the tube, swirled around the bowl, and flushed out the bottom of an amazingly cool waterslide at Sea Life Park in Nuevo Vallarta. As you can see in the photo, it’s like riding [...]
Liana Turner has moved her well known Paradise Bakery to a new location. She is famous for the best cinnamon rolls in Puerto Vallarta. You can see how she makes them here.
Liana is an accomplished chef and provides full service catering as well as making the best cinnamon rolls and pastries.
Paradise Bakery is on the [...]
The Red Cabbage restaurant in Puerto Vallarta is an establish favorite among locals and visitors.
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Iguanas and More Iguanas
Puerto Vallarta is filled with Iguanas. Everywhere you turn, there’s another one. This very large iguana is the most recent one I have encountered.
Fortunately, I had my camera with me to get the shot. It must be used to people because it allowed me to get very close.
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The Grupo Ecologico de Puerto Vallarta, A.C. (Puerto Vallarta Ecological Group) has organized a walk along the banks of the Pitillal river to see the results of five years of reforestation efforts.
The walk will take place Saturday, May 17 at 9:00am and will last for 1 1/2 hours. There are two simultaneous starting points for [...]
Mexican Discount Airlines
I came across an article in the San Francisco Chronicle that gives a great overview of Mexico’s budget airlines and where you can go flying with them. The list of airlines is complete. Two airlines I have never even heard of and I’m always looking for less expensive ways to travel.
Here is an [...]
Real Sourdough at Artisan Bakery in Puerto Vallarta
While I was having my morning coffee at The Coffee Cup in Marina Vallarta, a woman walked in with a huge basket of rustic style breads to deliver. I asked her what bakery she worked for and she told me, Artisan Bakery downtown.
I hadn’t heard of them before [...]
Have you ever wondered how much groceries cost in Puerto Vallarta? I’ll give you an idea. I took a picture of everything I bought on a typical shopping trip at the Comercial Mexicana grocery store.
The grand total is $438.25 Pesos which is approximately $41 Dollars. I have listed the price for every item I purchased. [...]
Casta Dark – Great Mexican Beer
It’s Saturday and we have friends coming over to visit which means we need to go and get some beer. No social event in Mexico is complete without sufficient quantities of beer to offer to guests.
Mexico produces many great tasting beers. Many of the lesser known beers are superior to [...]
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Big Brown Iguana
While we were attempting to get a picture of an emerald green iguana climbing a palm tree we were startled by this big guy, a three foot long garrobo. In puerto Vallarta green iguanas are called iguanas, but the brown-gray iguanas are called garrobos.
He looks mean but Iguanas are [...]