Acapulco
Trip Start
Sep 25, 2007
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Trip End
Ongoing
Acapulco,
Mexico
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Speaking of driving, we left Escondido before sunrise headed for Acapulco. Over 400kms of beautiful Mexican roads, Topes and lots of winding steep mountainside stuff.
The 50kph average ran true again and we hit the outskirts of Acapulco mid-afternoon. What a welcome, Taxi and bus drivers shooting for the gaps pretty hairy stuff until we hit the main road heading East to a bypass road that took us into Playa Luces from the North.
The park was great, right on the beach with each spot having its own little swimming pool, about 1500litres, expensive though, about $35 a night.
We took a bus into town the next day, what an experience, more than an hour to travel about 10 miles, where we saw the mask museum, the central plaza and downtown. We climbed up and visited the old fort which had great views of the harbor and the cruise ships.
We then took a cab to La Quebrada and the famous Mirador hotel, a hot spot since the 1940's for a lot of the Hollywood "in" crowd, Deano and Johnny Wiesmuller to name a couple of the earlier owners I think
Puerto Angel Sunset
. We paid our $15 cover charge which included 2 drinks and from the restaurant balcony watched the even more famous cliff divers put on a show. They dive from 3 different levels from the juniors to the top men who dive 30 meters into the swirling waters below. The water is only 4 meters deep and it was incredible to watch.Larry was smuggled in "half in the bag" again and enjoyed the show along with the rest of us.
We walked back down the hill into town and caught the bus home again. A huge memorable day was had by all.
We left before sunup again the next day and had to produce our receipts for the security guard on the gate. He thought we were trying to do a runner and the 12 gauge shotgun he was packing was enough persuasion for us to comply. And off we went again heading for Playa Linda north of Zihuataanejo another fast growing resort area. We camped one night here before a short run to Las Penas a small village with an even smaller RV park high above the rocky coastline. It was very nice here and we ran into some old friends Chica and Terry who we met on the Gulf coast.
We did 2 nights here and on the 11th of March said Adios to Vern who we had a lot of fun with traveling for a couple of weeks before pointing North again, looking for a quiet spot to spend a week or 2 over Semanta Sana or Easter as we call it.
Playa Perula for 1 night, Beautiful Puerto Vallarta for 1 night, there was too many tourists here and they mean $$$. Then up the coast through San Blas to Teacapan a small fishing village I had seen some good reports on the net, the fact it was in the middle of nowhere off the main drag helped too as we hear millions of Mexicans hit the beaches over Easter.
Till next time,
Hasta Luega Amigos,
The McGregors-6.
