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Up-and-coming Mexican beaches
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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
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Randy Oct 28th 2007 11:13AM
I grew up in So,Cal. As a young adult, I'd Drive my car, sometimes with friends, (caravan style,) we were connectid thru C.B.'s, so we could talk back and fourth, into Mexico. We'd Drive thru TJ, knowing full well that we had no Visa's amoung us. We'd drive thru a Mexican Check Point, where, at the time,(takeing, in to consideration it was in, the late 1970's) An offical, sitting Behind a desk, would start to stand, as we'd slow, to a Large Stop Sign (with a Blinking Red Light.) His small office was far enough from us, that he couldnt see who we were, but apparently If we continued to drive thru, he'd sit just sit back down, and not have to check us for a required Visa.(that we didn't have anyway) ;) We'd always take a Bottle of Tequila, with us as we were told, it would be an acceptable bribe, in case we were stopped by the Policia, for some reason. Wee'd never had to give up the alcohol, But never come home with it anyway. Then another aprox.60 or 80 miles further into Mexico. Then the really criminal, part of the trip. About 1/4 or 1/2 mile from the 2nd check point. We'd drive our cars off the Road, and return to the Main Road ,about that same distance, past the 2nd Guard station. We'd enter Mexican Baha, and for $1.oo American (a night) we'd rent small Cabins from an elderly Mexican man and his wife. We brought a bag or two of An American (un-named) Chocolate candie's, and She'd supply Hot Tortillas, to us for the few days or week we'd stay. It was Beautiful there, and said to be one of the places "Jaques Cousteau" would make a stop there on occasion. We had Wonderful times, and for another $1.oo he'd rent us Pitch Forks, for the week to Dig up all the Long neck Clams we wanted and we'd cook them along with a Turkey, and all the Fixens,(we'd brought with us) in their Big Clay oven. YUM! Randy
Randy Oct 28th 2007 1:15PM
oops! I din't mean to send my Storie a second time. These comment sites need operator, and spell check, to Catch these mistakes, made by Hinez 57 year old Reminisers, of the day