From A to Z (l, m, n)
Location Puerto Vallarta is located in the western state of Jalisco in central Mexico, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, on Banderas Bay. This is the largest natural bay and deep in Mexico and the second in North America, with 40 miles of shoreline. Its waters are framed by the Sierra Madre to the east, whose high mountains protect the bay against the winds and other inclement, as well as helping to moderate the climate is wet and semitropical. In the far north is Punta Mita, and Cabo Corrientes to the south.
Mountain Puerto Vallarta is a magical combination between sea and mountains. The mountains emerge an energy difficult to explain, with the full range of green jungle vegetation and giving them a semblance wild and mysterious. The village is surrounded by them and are always present before our eyes and in our walk. It is absolutely advisable to devote one day or more, if we stay in our time, to make a trip by some of the people. They can be as close or The Nogalito The tuit or even farther away as San Sebastian or pet, which can be accessed by road or plane in organized excursions.
Mariachi The origin of the word mariachi has had in the course of history different versions. It was felt in the French word marriage, but subsequent studies gave evidence that could come from the Nahuatl word Mari EC SON, found in a praise to the Virgin of battery and they pronounced as she or Maria-Maria-shi. In its origins mariachi did not include wind instruments, using guitar, violin, harp and vihuela. In the 30 he joined the trumpet and Pedro Iturralde which was recorded in 1949, the first songs with two trumpets. One of the world's most famous mariachi is Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, a group founded by Silvestre Vargas with friends and family members, whom he taught to read music, all a change, because before that of mariachi musicians they were ear or called lyrical. He was the first to use the uniform Campirano, with short jacket and blanket, which then evolve with the great singers of this century, resembling that of the charros with buttoning, alamares and booties. The mariachi is associated with Jalisco, but covers other states and they all sing the purest and intense feelings of the soul, penalties and joys, to love and to desamor more torn.
Night Cae afternoon and the lights sunset we prepare for that night is coming. As if it were a theater, all players are prepared in the groomed scenarios. The restaurants look their best galas, the chords of music will sound and the stars and the moon do not miss your appointment. Everyone is ready to live until the last second, we can have dinner type of food that we want more, take a sophisticated coffee Olas Altas, Rio Cuale Island or in front of the Malecon, and then go where the heart will lead us: dance, talk, walk, watch .... Everything is possible and everything is okay under the spell of the night and complicity of the Bay.