Living in Puerto Vallarta

While every destination in Mexico has something to offer the visitor, romantic Puerto Vallarta has everything: beaches on a beautiful bay, great dining, accommodations for every budget, a variety of entertainment, art galleries, excellent shopping, world class golf and tennis, activities and excursions galore, and fun, fun, fun! And all of this in the atmosphere of a traditional Mexican village with cobblestone streets and friendly people, against a background of exuberant tropical vegetation and the majestic Sierra Madre mountains.

Dozens of restaurants, many with internationally-recognized chefs, feature cuisine from around the globe. It's a shoppers' paradise with traditional market stalls as well as designer boutiques, fine art galleries and handicrafts from every corner of Mexico.

Puerto Vallarta offers championship golf, tennis tournaments, mountain biking, snorkeling, scuba diving, horseback riding, hot air ballooning and more. Day trips range from a flight to a mountainous silver mining village to a cruise of the island preserve of many endangered species.

Easily accessible by air, land or sea, Puerto Vallarta has won awards for its handling of tourism and its clean water supply. Safety and sanitation receive high priority, and world class hotels provide facilities for meetings and conventions.

Puerto Vallarta is the fifth-largest city in the state of Jalisco. According to the population census of 2005 the city numbered over 220,000. Puerto Vallarta enjoys a typical tropical climate, with near constant temperature and humidity year round and with a pronounced wet and dry seasonal variation.

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