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Barra de Navidad Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Barra de Navidad, Mexico
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Lagoon-a Beach
This is a top pick! We both fell in love with Barra, a beautiful place with a lagoon and then just over a small walkway to the beach. A tiny relaxed little town, where the bus station doesnt even have a sign! The bus stopped again, people got off, we saw no signs and so ...
Sayulita to Melaque
This will be the third night for us in Perula. This sleepy little town is located only two hours south of Puerto Vallarta. Not much in this small town but a few stores and other small businesses, most seem to be closed for the season. There ...
Blue Blue Ocean
We came into town drove all over and can not find the campground. Ask in sign language and pointing at the guide book how to find the place. Finally find it and its all locked up. Alright there are three campgounds here---so go looking for the second. ...
La Barra de Navidad
Driving south along the coast we reached Barra de Navidad. A really nice contrast to the crowded and not authentic Puerto Vallarta. Here the Mexicans are still in the majority and the whole scenery is much more of what we thought to be the original ...
On the road again: Will Manana Do?
... 't a pocket emptier, I would do it again and again. All in all, I can't recommend this coastal area enough, especially Barra de Navidad. If you want a nice long weekend, look in to flying down to Manzanillo on Alaska and staying at the Grand Bay Hotel ...
back to the beach
Jan 23 Last night we celebrated Cathies Birthday at an outdoor restaurant at the centro in Colima. It was very nice with live music, they even played "Las Mananitas" beautiful Mexican birthday song for Cathie. There was also a band playing in the ...
Day at the beach 8<)
Jan 24 Well it took all day for us to get very little done. Right after breakfast and a couple coffees, we took Kona to the beach, (50 feet from here) and did he ever like that. He impressed everyone with his swimming ability in the large waves. He ...
Sound of the sea
Well, the PV gay blow out had to end some time, this is us officially back on the road, having planned a couple of low key beach stops. No designer trunks here but staying only twenty yards from the beach we can hear the ...
Barra de Navidad - Wow! Did We Like This Place
... ; 5,000 Location: Costa Allegre on the Pacific Ocean, 200 km south of Puerto Vallarta and 30 km north of Manzanillo -------------------------------------------------------------------- Barra de Navidad - Wow, Did We Like This Place Part 1 of 4 ...
Barra de Navidad - A Beautiful Tropical Feeling
... . 10 of 23 Destinations (this is not a ranking) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Barra de Navidad - A Beautiful Tropical Feeling Part 2 of 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The ...
Barra de Navidad - The Beach and Malecón
... ; We also encountered a beautiful malecón in the city of Campeche located in the Yucatan on the Gulf of Mexico. In Barra de Navidad the malecón is not a boardwalk as it is constructed of interlocking stones creating a wide, slightly winding promenade ...
high seas ,cocnuts and a monkey
... an extra crew member down to Panama,but will be happy to get to the next port (Zihuatanejo) over 300nm from here in Barra de Navidad.This is a beautiful place here in Jalisco and as usual the people amazing. We stopped at Chamela and as Linda and Darrel ...
Melaque - A Lesson on "Ejido Land"
... Melaque as a separate destination as I rightly or wrongly viewed it as an adjunct to Barra de Navidad --------------------------------------------------------------------- Melaque - A Lesson on "Ejido Land" Part 4 of 4 With our enthusiasm for Barra de ...
Barra de Navidad
... nbsp; I looked and looked but to no avail. Like Paul says, 'maybe on the way back'. But now we're in Barra de Navidad where we went to Maria's Tienda this morning and on the way back down to the dock we spotted 10 very large iguanas sunning ...
Gino's West (????)
... new wood-fired pie that is cooked on Gato Go's grill. Perhaps if something happens to us and we get stuck here in Barra, the Merkman will be able to replicate a successful marketing plan similar to The French Baker (to be discussed in a future blog) ...
Raton
... fill. As we had not been tied to a dock in four months, what else could it be? We were anchored in the Bara de Navidad lagoon and things were tranquil. The next morning we saw suspect droppings and more fruit chewing, but being the optimist, I blamed the ...
2nd time around was not a disapointment in Melaque
You might remember our St. Patrick's Day festivities from last year. Anyway, they were so fun that we had no doubt in our minds that we were going to do everything possible to be in Melaque again this year. I'm not sure what the traditional ...
Some things never stay the same… or do they?
One of my most vivid memories of cruising Mexico in the spring of 1992 was the Fiesta de San Patricio in Melaque. Why might this be so memorable? Fireworks, a charging bull on fire, and kids dancing with cardboard shields to protect themselves from the ...
Beautiful little town
... the trip due to the fact we had my mom and my dad riding for two weeks with us) for the three hour drive to Barra De Navidad or Christmas Bar. We stopped in the Mismaloya area of Puerto Vallarta for lunch and head the best fish we had our entire trip. We ...
Barra de Navidad
... another night when I got back but couldn't face it & snuck off to the bus station & continued north to Melaque/Barra de Navidad - the 2 towns are at opposite ends of the same bay, but Barra (on the sandbar) is much prettier & therefore more ...
Barra de Navidad: Tiempo Tranquilo
... Not too uncomfortable yet, but time to start paying attention to what was available along the coast for lodging. Signage for Barra de Navidad and neighboring Melaque started coming up regularly. I really wasn’t tired yet, but I began to ask myself, ...
Feliz Navidad
... fishing boats. Early the next morning we arrived at the small and pristine Isla Isabella, which is known as the "Galapagos of Mexico" due to its massive population of predator-free frigate birds and blue-footed boobies.. We were the only boat anchored at ...
Barra de Navidad
I love Barra de Navidad, it reminded me a lot of home. After a short trip from Tenacatita we arrived in Barra, we passed the jetty entrance and headed toward the lagoon where we would anchor for the next several days. The locals were ...
Barra de Navidad
... . Dominate on the south shore was the Hotel Grand Bay an elegant hotel complete with marina and huge Yachts! The "Barra de Navidad"(sand bar - Christmas Sand bar to be exact) has been used for hundreds of years and was a stopping place for ...
Barra De Navidad Return
... only seemingly wealthy Gringos at the resort. Back on the launch we got a good shot of our little village from the lagoon. We had fun and after a breakfast in Barra de Navidad headed back to Ajijic. The trip taking about 5 ...
Barra and La Manzanilla, the end of the trip
... sitting on a concrete pad with a bottle of beer and a dog lying on its back. Life is slow in Mexico. The sand bar (barra) in Barra de Navidad had a pedestrian walkway which brought us past a surfing area where all the young kids gave us a surfing ...
La Cruz to Barra de Navidad
... because the last long run I managed was in San Diego three months ago! Anyway, we pulled anchor and set sail to Barra de Navidad on Monday, along with Sassona and Fantasia. We spent the day yesterday at the Grand Bay Resort, where some friends have ...
In search of waves at Barra de Navidad
... Vallarta for breakfast. Stocked up for the road and jumped on the next most tacky bus we could find for $15AUD to Barra de Navidad. We are told it will take 3 hours - 5 hours later we arrive, thinking we just took the longest route ...
The beach town of Barra de Navidad
Barra de Navidad is a wonderful little beach town situated on a sandbar in a large bay on the coast of Jalisco (south of Puerto Vallarta). A long curving beach extends the full length of the town, the southern end of the sandbar ends at the melacon. ...
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