Jun 21, 2007
If you're thinking of a vacation on the Pacific coast of Mexico, think Nayarit
We are all aware of the household words in travel -- Acapulco, Monte Carlo, Taormina, Florence, Venice -- and we automatically choose them for our vacations. When we arrive, we find them awash with crowds, inundated by commercial tourism, and thus ruined for the sensitive, intellectually-curious traveler.
More and more, it's important to select the places of which no one else is aware. And the Mexican state of Nayarit, between Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan, is just such a place. It has no airport, so you fly into Puerto Vallarta. But from there, you take a public bus ($8 from the bus station in Puerto Vallarta), a self-drive car, or a taxi (be sure to negotiate a $40 price with the driver) to the seaside town of Rincon de Guayabitos about an hour north of Puerto Vallarta. And there you find the Mexico that once was.
Or you go even further north to Chacala, to Platanitos, or San Blas.
Get there quick. Recent travel trade press reports that Gogo Tours has signed a contract with the tourist board of Nayarit to bring that long-neglected place into broad-scale commercial tourism, to "develop it." Ay-yay-yay!
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More and more, it's important to select the places of which no one else is aware. And the Mexican state of Nayarit, between Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan, is just such a place. It has no airport, so you fly into Puerto Vallarta. But from there, you take a public bus ($8 from the bus station in Puerto Vallarta), a self-drive car, or a taxi (be sure to negotiate a $40 price with the driver) to the seaside town of Rincon de Guayabitos about an hour north of Puerto Vallarta. And there you find the Mexico that once was.
Or you go even further north to Chacala, to Platanitos, or San Blas.
Get there quick. Recent travel trade press reports that Gogo Tours has signed a contract with the tourist board of Nayarit to bring that long-neglected place into broad-scale commercial tourism, to "develop it." Ay-yay-yay!
Write and read comments about this post.
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