Puerto Vallarta Features

Puerto Vallarta Features

• Top Attractions in Puerto Vallarta
  

  The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe is dedicated to the patron saint of Mexico and of Puerto Vallarta. The holy mother's image, by Ignacio Ramírez... Read more

• Top Reasons to Go to Puerto Vallarta
  

  Legendary restaurants: Eat barbecued snapper with your feet in the sand or chateaubriand with a killer ocean view.... Read more

• Top Experiences in Puerto Vallarta
  

  Canopy tours are action-packed rides, where, fastened to a zip line high off the ground, you fly from tree to tree—blue sky above, ribbons... Read more

• Puerto Vallarta's Malecón
  

  Puerto Vallarta's malecón is its Champs Élysées—only shorter, warmer, and less expensive. On the mile-long cement... Read more

• Cruising to Puerto Vallarta
  

  Expanded and updated in 2007, PV's cruise-ship terminal berths three full-size ships at a time and is midway between Marina Vallarta and the... Read more

• Gay Puerto Vallarta
  

  Puerto Vallarta is a gay old town. Men check each other out over drinks and suntan oil at the south end of Los Muertos beach, dangle from parachutes... Read more

• Weddings and Honeymoons in Puerto Vallarta
  

  Mexico is a growing wedding and honeymoon destination for Canadians and Americans. Many area hotels—from boutiques to internationally known... Read more

• Puerto Vallarta with Kids
  

  What better way to bond with your kids than splashing in the pool or the sea, riding a horse into the hills, or zipping through the trees on... Read more

• Snapshot of Puerto Vallarta
  

  Puerto Vallarta sits at the center point of C-shaped Banderas Bay. Spurs from the Sierra Cacoma run down to the sea, forming a landscape of numerous... Read more

• Lingering in Yelapa
  

  If you can't tear yourself away at the end of the day (or you miss the last water taxi), consider renting one of the locally run rustic accommodations... Read more

• Buying a Time-Share
  

  In Puerto Vallarta, time-share salespeople are as unavoidable as death and taxes, and almost as dreaded. Although a slim minority of people actually... Read more

• Mexican Rhythms and Roots
  

  Salsa, merengue, cumbia—do they leave you spinning before you even hit the dance floor? This primer is designed to help you wrap your mind... Read more

• One Man's Metal
  

  In less than a decade after William Spratling arrived in the mining town of Taxco—275 km (170 mi) north of Acapulco—he had transformed... Read more

• Local Do's and Taboos
  

  In the United States and elsewhere in the world, being direct, efficient, and succinct is highly valued. But Mexican communication tends to be... Read more