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Mismaloya
Mismaloya, the location for the film The Night of the Iguana , is about 12km south of Puerto Vallarta: you can still see the dilapidated Iguana sign by the roadside. The tiny scenic cove is dominated by a gargantuan resort and villagers are up in arms about proposals to evict them
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Museo de Antropología e História
This standout museum presents exhibits on the state’s history from prehistoric times to the 20th century, with a good collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts. It also traces pre-Hispanic cultural influences up to the modern day in tools, clothing, textiles and religion. Nearly all the
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Museo Tamux
The Museo Tamux is an excellent interactive natural history museum covering everything from asteroids to cloning to dinosaurs, including some cool replica fossils. The big orange ball is a planetarium, and there’s a botanical garden down below. No buses come here, or even pass near
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El Refugio de Potosí
This nature center just inland from the beachfront around 3.5km north of town rehabilitates injured wildlife, breeds butterflies and parrots, and contributes to environmental education in the area. At the time of research, it was closed to the public, but guided visits were schedul
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Casa Museo Juan Escutia
The Casa Museo Juan Escutia was the home of Juan Escutia, one of Mexico’s illustrious niños héroes (child heroes), who died at age 17 defending Mexico City’s Castillo de Chapultepec from US forces. Both Casa y Museo Amado Nervo and Casa Museo Juan Escutia are housed in impressive r
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Casa de la Máscara
This enchanting mask museum is near the fort on the pedestrian portion of Morelos. It has an amazing collection of masks from around Mexico, including some by Afro-Mestizos from the Costa Chica, as well as masks from Cuba, Italy and Africa. A central room displays modern creations.
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Boca de Tomatlán
Sixteen kilometers from Puerto Vallarta, beyond Mismaloya, southwest along the coast, is Boca de Tomatlán, a seaside village that’s less commercialized than Puerto Vallarta and a good place to munch ceviche tostadas on the beach. You can get water taxis from here to more remote bea
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Mansión Carvajal
Once the mansion of wealthy landowner Fernando Carvajal, this beautiful building now houses state offices. Visitors are welcome to take a peek inside, however. Black-and-white tiled floors, Doric columns, elaborate archways and a dramatic marble and ironwork staircase are highlight
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Los Frailes
Immediately offshore from El Arco stand Los Frailes, two granite pinnacles that offer some very unique rock climbing, should you feel inclined (in fact, a scene from the movie Everest was filmed here). Just off the eastern shore, the thin spire of Neptunes Finger protrudes some 24m
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All Ritmo
Little ones can splish and splash to their hearts content at this water park, which also has mini-golf and shuffleboard. The turnoff is 2km north of the Ultramar ferry terminal. Punta Sam colectivos on Avenida Tulum (opposite the bus terminal) will drop you at the turnoff, and its
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Acuario y Herpetario Minckley
A block east of the Plaza de las Culturas is the interesting little Acuario y Herpetario Minckley , where many of the rare snakes, lizards, toads, turtles, fish, spiders and scorpions endemic to the reserve can be viewed. All the creatures in this education center are well looked a
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Parque Hidalgo
Tapachula’s heart is the large, lively Parque Hidalgo, with vistas of the towering 4100m cone of Volcán Tacaná to the north on clear days.
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Templo de la Cruz
Steep steps climb to the Templo de la Cruz, the largest and most elegantly proportioned in this group. The stone tablet in the central sanctuary shows the lord of the underworld smoking tobacco on the right and Kan B’alam in full royal attire on the left. Behind is a reproduction o
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Teleférico
This extraordinary cable car runs between the Mesón de Bacajípare base station toward the bottom of the Copper Canyon and the canyon edge every half hour, giving incredible canyon views and glimpses of small indigenous settlements nestled in the hillside. The ride back up to the to
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Catedral de Saltillo
Built between 1745 and 1800, Saltillo’s cathedral has one of Mexico’s finest Churrigueresque facades, with columns of elaborately carved pale-gray stone. In an unusual touch, given the Catholic churchs traditionally poor view of indigenous religions, the central dome features carvi
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Sagrario Metropolitano
Adjoining the east side of the Catedral Metropolitana is the 18th-century Sagrario Metropolitano. Originally built to house the archives and vestments of the archbishop, it is now the city’s main parish church. Its front entrance and mirror-image eastern portal are superb examples
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Playa Palancar
About 17km south of town, Palancar is a great beach to visit during the week when the crowds thin out. It has a beach club renting snorkel gear and theres a restaurant. Near the beach, Arrecife Palancar (Palancar Reef) has some excellent diving (it’s known as Palancar Gardens), as
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Lapiztola
Oaxacan street art has reached global audiences through the work of Lapiztola, a small collective whose startling murals are usually based on photographically real images with creative embellishments and a strong political message. Their work has appeared or been exhibited from Sto
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Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones
Scene of a historic military defeat, on August 20, 1847, Mexican troops defended the former convent against US forces advancing from Veracruz in a dispute over the US annexation of Texas. The US invasion was but one example in a long history of foreign intervention in Mexico, as co
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Mirador
Walk east along Independencia past Convento de la Santa Cruz, then fork right along Ejército Republicano, to the mirador . Theres a fine view of Los Arcos, Querétaros emblematic 1.28km-long aqueduct , with 74 towering sandstone arches built between 1726 and 1738. The aqueduct runs
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