Puerto Vallarta is a popular tourist destination located in Mexico’s Jalisco state on the Pacific coast. Famed for its vibrant nightlife and gorgeous scenery, there are also plenty of other attractions in the surrounding area. Public art lines the scenic Malecón, the spectacular Sierra Madre cascades over the town, and there are plenty of traditional …
In contrast to its Caribbean cousins like Cancun and Playa Del Carmen, Puerto Vallarta is one of Mexico’s Pacific coastal towns that hasn’t yet been irreversibly marred by Western capitalism. In fact, it’s one of the most astonishingly beautiful places in the country. Young backpackers in search of adventure – as well as relaxed foreigners …
A former mining town in the Bahía de Banderas (Bay of Flags), Puerto Vallarta today is a booming resort city with a cosmopolitan crowd. Foreign visitors first arrived with the advent of commercial air travel in the 1940s, and these artists and writers settled at the “Gringo Gulch” quarter. Mass tourism took off in the …