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Up-and-coming Mexican beaches

Mexico has a way of slowly revealing beach towns as though one is peeling back layers of an onion. And, with each layer, the world discovers a new playground in which luxury hotels sprout like fields of agave.

Like other beachcombers, I'm always keeping Mexico on my radar, filing away stories and suggestions I've heard from friends so that when it comes time for a Mexican getaway, I have a few places lined up ready to explore.

And that is why I was excited to come across an article in Travel and Leisure exploring "the next great beach towns along Mexico's Pacific Coast." La Nueva Riviera also discusses how the Mexican coast has been impacted by Hollywood movies and how they've transformed quiet fishing villages into popular tourist destinations--such as how the 1964 film, Night of the Iguana transformed relatively unknown Puerto Vallarta into the tourist Mecca it is today.

Writer Christopher Petkanas apparently intends to do the same with his suggestions of undiscovered beach towns such as Yelapa, a small coastal town of just 1,500 that is "accessible only by boat, by mountain bike, or on foot."

Sounds like my kind of place! I think I'll file this one away for the future.

Filed under: Learning, Paddling, Surfing, Mexico, Ecotourism

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