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Air Travel:

The Manzanillo Playa de Oro Airport is located 30 minutes south of the Mexican Resort Vacation  town of Melaque. It is serviced by most major airlines; Air Alaska  from Los Angeles, America West from Arizona and Aeromar from San Antonio. Direct charters to the Mexico Resorts city of Manzanillo from Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. Taxi rides from the Airport to Melaque cost about $30 (USD).

Bus Travel:

There is daily first class bus service from both Puerta Vallarta and Guadalajara and the fare is approximately $20 one way. Two bus lines servicing Melaque are Flecha Amarilla's Primera Plus and ETN.

Local Travel:

For your Mexico Resorts Vacation in Melaque you won’t need to rent a car. Buses are cheap and fun, taxis’ are inexpensive and abundant.

Highway Travel:

Tepic (Junction of Highway 15 and 200) to Manzanillo: Mex. Hwy 200 intersects Hwy 80 out of Guadalajara, is the busting resort village of San Patricio-Melaque on Bahia de Navidad! This village has a selection of local cuisine and international restaurants. It has pharmacies, laundries, medical clinic, internet cafes, etc. A great place to hang out for the whole winter.

 

San Patricio-Melaque, Mexico on
Bahia de Navidad!

Photo & highway travel excerpt from www.kmbykm.com

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Mexico Vacation Resort area of Melaque - Interesting Facts

In the winter, the Canadians on Vacation in Mexico out number the Americans visiting Mexican resorts. Canadians love this Mexico Resort community for the fun and sun. During the day, the beach area attracts three-piece mariachi bands that play for cash. Enjoy the Mexican music they perform.! Many Mexico Vacation Resort visitors to Melaque bring their own musical instruments along on Vacation, they know you can join in anywhere the music erupts. It is customary in Melaque to see a band just start playing on a street corner. This custom allows the local and tourist musicians to start an outdoor concert anytime and anywhere.

Melaque has many Mexican Vacation resorts, and a trailer park with all the hook ups needed for camping.  Two other tourist trailer parks have limited hook ups. If you are looking for the perfect Mexico resort vacation accommodations, Melaque has many vacation resorts, fine and boutique hotels that offer beautiful room accommodations and many vacation activities.

If you plan to marry at you Mexico resort while on vacation in Melaque, you will need a passport, and a Mexican marriage  license. Proof of age and marital status must be present on your passport or other records required by the Mexican government. Sunset Beach weddings have become very popular on Mexican vacations. Mexican resort planned weddings are beautiful in costume or out of costume.

The best beach area to go snorkeling is Tenacatita with its’ white coral reef and calm Pacific waters. Many Mexican style restaurants line the beach as people watch their meal come right out of the water and brought up to be prepared. Mexican gas and water trucks roll down the roads with a distinctive ring alerting people they are in the area and ready to service your needs.

Many people take their vacation in Mexico, and later choose to retire to Mexico and enjoy the sandy beaches of Melaque as their new resort home. Baby boomers have come from all areas to visit and set up house in this area because of the amount of tourism and quality of living. Although many retired baby boomers move to nearby areas, Melaque is always the first and sometimes the last stop on their road to fun and relaxation.

Family Mexico resorts attract vacation families as they offer in ground swimming pools for those who prefer the clear blue water to the ocean. The palm tree caretakers climb the trees and release the coconuts, which are then served to guests in the hotels and resorts. Watching such an extraordinary sight leaves the tourist wondering how anybody learns to climb a tree this way and make a living.

Mexico Resorts Area - Costalegra

Costa  Alegre is known for its charming Mexican sunsets, desert beaches, and secluded hotel and resorts locations amidst the lush jungle. While this ecological tourist area satisfies all budgets, luxurious special-class hotels and resorts that make their guests feel as if they were in heaven are definitely the most outstanding Mexico vacation spots.

The Costa Alegre is an exotic coastline of beaches and Mexico Resorts on the Pacific coast that is outstanding for its magical beauty divinely created to delight those tourists who are ever in search of vacation amusement in Mexico.

On your Costalegre vacation, you will discover the Mexican weather very similar to that in Hawaii, which makes it an ideal winter vacation resort destination. For those who love diving or fishing, Costa Alegre offers calm beaches of smooth and pristine swell. For those who prefer ecotourism activities, Costa Alegre provides appropriate surroundings for it, amidst fascinating hills and mountains. This Mexico Resorts`area is also famous for its lovely sunsets and traditional resort villages featuring warm, tranquil beaches.

Mexican Coastline of the Costalegre

Costa Alegre is a Pacific ocean Mexico Vacation coastal area that comprises 60 miles of seaside between Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo; more exactly, it goes from Quemaro beach to Barra de Navidad.

Costa Alegre embraces a combination of unspoiled beaches with picturesque traditional villages, hotels and Mexico Resorts; it is divided into 5 zones, each of them distinguished by particular geographic features, peculiar architecture, and activities that can be practiced there. Bahia de Navidad, Bahia Tenacatita, Costa Careyes, Bahia de Chamela, and Costa Majahuas have their own charm and special appeal for their tranquil and virgin beaches, extraordinary Mexican vegetation, spectacular hotels, beautiful coves, mysterious mangroves, and large areas of tropical forest.

This region also features interesting cultural diversity. In the different Mexican villages such as Barra de Navidad, Melaque, Cuastecomates, Tenacatita, El Tecuan, Chamela, and Perula can be found several types of handicrafts made by indigenous people of the various ethnic groups that cohabit this southern area of Jalisco. For instance, from the Coras, one can admire beautiful temples that combine Christian imgaery with local cultural beliefs such as adoring the sun and the stars. Another important ethnic group is the Huichol, of nahuatl origin, and known for great artistic creativity expressed through their art, all exciting areas for the Mexico Vacation tourist.

Mexico Resorts Areas - A lot to Discover

Costa Alegre is a Mexico Resort coastal beach area with beautiful landscapes. Driving along it, you can enjoy unequalled stretches of ocean views and resorts. This highway, which links Puerto Vallarta to Manzanillo, goes from incomparable, unspoiled tropical forests and magic coves to impressive mountains and hills full of vegetation, creeks, bays, lagoons filled with exotic birds, and typical, small Mexican villages with beautiful beaches as well as luxury hotels. Anywhere along this stretch is an ideal place on your Mexico resort vacations to escape the hectic lifestyle of the city.

In Costa Alegre, one can find all types of resort vacation hotels, from inexpensive rustic huts on the beach with sand floors and thatched roofs to exclusive Mexico vacation resorts of great comfort and the most modern tourist facilities. Motorboat rides and exciting adventures on a fishing yacht are other examples of the contrasts offered by this coastal area. In Costa Alegre, one can practice a wide variety of recreational activities such as golfing, cycling, camping, horseback riding, polo, diving, tennis, tennis tournaments, and rappelling among others.

Exploring Costa Alegre is to enter deep into Mexico and its’ coastal and jungle landscapes amidst The lush Mexican vegetation of the mountains, coves, beaches, estuaries, and islands that comprise an eminently scenic vacation panorama famous for a series of bays where mountains and plains form geographical accidents of indescribable beauty. The Mexican Costa Alegre is a prodigious place for farming and home to a variety of flora and fauna. The abundant vegetation of this region extends throughout the area and gives shelter to a great variety of small tigers, leopards, wolves, jaguars, and a wide variety of the exotic birds of Mexico.

Resort Beaches of Costa Alegre

The Pacific Ocean of Mexico with its emerald-green waters bathes the golden sands of Costa Alegre's beaches. Here, visitors can admire uncontrollable and howling waves constantly crashing against static cliffs and crags that protect and mark off peaceful beaches. It is said that this is one of the few spots on the Mexican coast where the sun rises and sets on the sea, depending on the observer's position.

Costa Alegre is without a doubt the most outstanding beach on the Pacific ocean coast as it is surrounded by wide bays and steep coves. Here, one finds thousands of palm trees along the coast and mountains full of lush vegetation that reveal unspoiled beaches that offer unequalled peace for those on Vacation in Mexico. Some of the most famous beach resort spots in Costa Alegre are Barra de Navidad, Costa Careyes, and Costa Majahuas.

Barra de Navidad is Mexico Resort pueblo noted for its coast formed by a succession of coves mixed with mountains covered by exuberant vegetation. Costa Careyes, in turn, presents white tones and fine textures on its sand and a smooth swell due to a cove located on this beach. The lush region of Costa Majahuas comprises Majahuas bay, the Hotelito Desconocido property, Penitas beach, and Chalacatepec village, among other interesting spots. For your Mexico Resorts Vacation water sports and land activities await you in a very natural scene of contrasting landscapes. Costa Alegre is an earthly Mexican paradise that brings together the best beaches, exuberant jungle, and the most varied animal life and vegetation of the Pacific coast. Find true relaxation and fun at your hotel or Mexico Resort during your Cost Alegre vacation!


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Mexico Vacation - The beautiful Bahia de Navidad








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Mexico Vacations - Some of the beach vendors that sell their wares on the beaches of the Costalegre