3 x M = Barra de Navidad October 24, 2004
Posted by Administrator in : nomadika, from LA 2 Panama , add a commentSo we zoomed past Vallarta or ìPee Veeî as the gringos like to call it, cause its basically a gringo colony full of Wal Marts, Mc Donalds and the like. My favourite things were the buses with their diagonal stripes on the sides. On the way to Barra we went on a boat ride from Boca de Tomatlán to Playa las Animas, a little closer than Yelapa, and spent a few hours on one of those idyllic beaches: crystal clear waters, white sand and crooked palm trees. I snorkeled like krazy and was amazed by the little yellow fish, and the big fish with yellow stripes, the ones that had their blue make-up on and the long, skinny ones with a shark-like faceÖthe whole lot of them floating, flying underwater following their aquatic order.
Always headed South, all the way on route 200, we arrived at our next stop: Barra de Navidad, low season, and we’re lucky. We landed at the Hotel Jalisco, run by Mario, a friendly guy who gave us the kind of welcoming that makes us stick around. He’s got a winning Marketing plan: free mota, plus we’ve been going very fast so far, so we’re staying in town for a week. Barra is pretty chill right now, there aren’t too many tourists around and I’ve read Los Renglones Torcidos de Dios at record speed. We live well and our hosts took us on an excellent excursion to Manzanilla beach on Sunday. He barbecued forever, Marta taught me how to make the most delicious ceviche and we even experienced our first tropical storm! We ran for cover and protected the coal with our life, it looked like Sunday was over for about 20 minutes as it poured and poured…and then, sunshine again. Around us an assortment of animals that Jorge looks after: the chick that thinks it’s a duck, the duck that thinks it’s a rooster and so on. A pretty amusing makeshift nature reserve type place this german guy has going, relaxed and with an amazing view.