Gourmet Dining and Fine Food
For a delectable culinary experience, Puerto Vallarta offers a wide array of selection: from traditional Mexican dishes to contemporary tastes from around the globe. You’ll find family-owned taco stands to sophisticated top-rated restaurants, all which will appease and tease your gastronomically sensitive palette.
Every November, gourmet food lovers can experience the best culinary delicacies that Mexico has to offer at the Annual Festival Gourmet International. This year, the festival will take place from November 13 to 23, 2008 and will be its fourteenth year of celebration. Later in May 2009, Restaurant Week 2009 will take place where three-course prix fixe meals are offered for up to 50 percent off the regular menu price.
Golfing in Mexico’s Premier Golf Destination
Puerto Vallarta is quickly becoming Mexico’s premier golf destinations. This resort town is home to seven world-class golf courses and has hosted a number of PGA events in the past.
Its complex and challenging seventy-one and seventy-two-par courses were designed by Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf, and are perfectly complimented by the surrounding Pacific Ocean and the Sierra Madre Mountains.
Visiting the Wixarika (or Huichol Indians) in San Andres Coamihata
The Wixarika are believed to be descendants of the Aztecs and are perhaps the last indigenous group in North America to live with ancient pre-Columbian traditions. Also know as the Huichol Indians, they reside in San Andres Coamihata which is a remote mountain village found high in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
The Wixarika are respected by locals as knowledgeable healers using medicinal plants, as well as for their ritualistic, symbolic, and celebratory practices during the harvest. Artwork and beadwork provide the Wixarika with income to preserve their community. San Andres Coamihata can be reached via a one-hour flight from the Puerto Vallarta airport.
Exciting Outdoor Adventures for Ecologists, Naturalists and Adventurers
For the best ecological and natural experiences in and around Puerto Vallarta, be sure to visit the Marietas Islands and San Blas, two spots that are surrounding by rich tropical wilderness, plants animals, fish, whales, and more.
