Description: Travel Mexico: see map of Mexico Riviera. Get a flight to Puerto Vallarta for fabulous weather and a great beach vacation. Read about our trip and check out cruises, villa rentals, hotels, car rentals, holiday packages and visit all the beaches on our map of the Mexican Riviera. Buy exquisite, colorful, unique Mexican hand made art that you won't see anywhere else. Find bargains on Mexican real estate and escape cold winter weather permanently.
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January 28, 2006, by Adrian Biffen: Puerto Vallarta, about 400 Km (driving) west of Guadalajara, looked like a great holiday destination, with plenty of hotels, resorts and villa rentals to choose from. Puerto Vallarta is located on the 100 mile inner coastline of the Bay of Banderas, the largest bay in Mexico - it is also the 7th largest bay in the world, and the deepest.
Having already explored the Baja, Cozumel-Cancun, and Huatulco Oaxaca regions, we were eager to continue our vacation travels in Mexico on the central Pacific Coast. Also known as the Mexican Riviera, as seen on the map below (images courtesy of Google Earth), it is generally considered to start at Mazatlan in the north, stretching 1300 road miles to Huatulco in the south. Mexico City is about 1,000 Km east of Puerto Vallarta.
The weather on the BC coast had been grey and wet for weeks on end, and Jenni and I were getting weary of it. Air Canada had started a direct daytime flight from Vancouver to Puerto Vallarta, so we decided to take advantage of it, avoiding the hassle of stop-overs and plane changes en route.