Puerto Vallarta:
Puerto Vallarta is a resort town on Mexico’s Pacific coast, in Jalisco state. It is known for its beaches, water sports and nightlife scene. Its cobblestone center is home to the ornate Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe church, boutique shops and a range of restaurants and bars. El Malecón is a beachside promenade with contemporary sculptures, as well as bars, lounges and nightclubs.
We disembarked the ship and went through the cruise terminal – it’s gigantic!! We know Puerto Vallarta very well and all we really wanted to do was spend some beach time so we took a taxi down to the main plaza. It was too bad that it was a Sunday instead of a Saturday – the latter has a gigantic craft market, food stalls, and live music and is a lot of fun to go around. However, they did have a doggy adoption set up with all these cute puppies running around. And they probably all found a home – I think everyone in the Romantic Zone and the Playa del Muertos has a pet of some kind 😊. We wandered along the shoreline in the Romantic Zone – tons of restaurants, bars, boutique hotels, and craft stores. We finally found a bar with a beach front, umbrellas and chairs, free Wi-Fi, and cheap beer and spent a couple of hours relaxing and watching the watercraft, sail boats, and para-sailors go by. Puerto Vallarta is on the Bay de Banderas (Bay of Flags – goes back to a historic moment when the Spaniards and Indigenous Indians signed a peace treaty out on the bay, all the boats were flying flags) which is absolutely a stunning scenic area – probably one of the prettiest bays in Mexico. We headed back along the Malecon until we reached the Church of Our Lady of Guadelupe and then grabbed a taxi to go back to the cruise terminal. Another lovely day in Mexico 😊.