Tagged: riviera-nayarit

Riviera Nayarit, Part 3: Intense Huichol Art

Back in March, I was lucky enough to be in Mexico City (one of my favorite cities) and at the small guesthouse where we were staying, the owner had a striking work of art on the…

Riviera Nayarit, Part 2: The Saint of San Pancho

I find, when I travel, that the people I meet are often as memorable as the sights I see. That was certainly the case on my recent trip to the Riviera Nayarit. After wandering…

A Trip Report: The Riviera Nayarit

Kim Kardashian goes to the Riviera Nayarit yearly. Christina Aguilera got engaged there. And on the visit I finished last week, I shared the sands with the Presidents of Chile,…

New 5-Star Iberostar Playa Mita Slashes Room Rates as Low as $105, But Book By Sept. 30

Iberostar, a Spanish operator of major beach resorts for the past 30 years, is opening its first resort on the Mexican Pacific Coast this December, and to drum up word of mouth, it's…

9 Ways to Commune with Coffee in Southern India

Most visitors to India cleave to the "Golden Triangle" of tourist hotspots -- the capital city of Delhi, Agra for the Taj Mahal, and Jaipur for its palaces and gems. Lately, many find…

Olympics Then and Now: Los Angeles, Summer Olympic Games 1932 and 1984

In the 1980s Los Angeles was the U.S.'s most multi-cultural city following an influx of immigrants mainly from Mexico, Central America, and Asia. The decade saw new ethnic…

Olympics Then and Now: Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Winter Olympic Games 1984

No one was more surprised when Sarajevo won the right to host the 1984 Olympics than the Yugoslav people. After all, no Winter Olympic Games had ever been held in a socialist country…

10 Wonderful Day Trips from San Francisco

Yes, San Francisco is an amazing city (my favorite, actually), but if you've traveled all the way out here, you might as well take in more of gorgeous Northern California. Here are 10…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Hawaii

Tourism, which has been in Hawaii since Captain James Cook sailed into its waters in 1778, really became an industry in 1959 when Hawaii became a state and jet travel became…

New Sport-Centric Cube Hotels Make the Alps Less Square

A pair of new hotels in the Alps has updated the chalet for the X-Games generation. The two Cube Hotels in the ski resort hamlets of Nassfeld, Austria and Savognin, Switzerland are…