Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Puerto Vallarta




Unfortunately I dont have a huge amount of time to submit this, so I'll type fast!

Yesterday was easy to describe...sat around, walked through some jungle with Ry to find some new beaches around and read a lot!

Today! Got up early and went into Puerto Vallarta with the owner of the place we're staying (Chantelle) and her friend Carolyne. We drove right through Vallarta and actually drove right to a little town that was on the mouth of the river upon which sat Chico's Paradise (remember that spot??) . From there we grabbed this 'pongo' boat (water taxi) that took us for about a 20 minute ride south along the coast to a village. The coast is littered with these tiny little water access only villages, and the one we went to was...Yelapa (I think thats the spelling!). It just got power about 7 months ago, so it's really starting to hit the big time! Walked up through the tiny little cobblestone walkways of the village and into the jungle behind where there is a big waterfall and a great pool of water (what they all thought was cold, but which we could have spent all day in) . Funny thing to note, on our way back down through the town, we found an internet cafe hah, pretty sure this was a sign that the internet is everywhere. Just as we were leaving the waterfall, this group of rowdy american tourists showed up, they had paid about 5x the price we paid and came on this booze cruise boat, luckily we managed to have the area to ourselves before being overrun. Had some cervazas and food on the beach) good section of the town is literally on a sand bar..., then hit the water taxi back up to the original town. All in all it was really quite cool and theres probably no way we would have known to do it if not for our hostess.

On a side note, the town was literally covered in these massive spider webs, each containing an arachnid horror, some literally the size of my hand, it was extremely awkward walking under these things and having the other 4 laughing at me as I ducked constantly. Since time is running out, Im not going to put pictures up today, but will for tomorrow! Adios!!

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