Travel Mazatlan

We decided this weekend to take a daytrip to the colonial town of Concordia. Located just 25 miles east of Mazatlan, it’s popular for its quality handmade furniture and pottery. Touring the Town Square Center to Concordia, like most Mexican colonial towns, is the church square. This is the gathering for everyone local or tourist [...]

It’s a hot Saturday afternoon on the tip of the peninsula. Bands of banana shaped kayaks circle around the bay, driven gently by their young navigators. Children splash and swim in the calm ocean, on this side of the beach the waves are barely noticeable. This is Stone Island (or “Isla De Piedra” as the [...]

Every winter the snowbirds from the north heed their call to escape the cold weather of their homelands, hop on jets and cruise ships and head south to Mazatlan. There is good a good reason for this annual migration ritual and that is that while it may be snowing and bitter cold in places north [...]

While you are planning your trip to Mazatlan you will want to give some consideration as to how you are going to get around while you are down there. If you are planning on renting a car, you may want to check out the traffic down there before you rent your car and see if [...]

For years all that was needed to cross from Mexico into the U.S. was  a picture identification card such as a drivers license, state identification or military identification card. However; as of January 1st 2008, new more stringent requirements must be met before you can cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. or from [...]

Exchanging money can be a confusing thing to do in Mazatlan and the fluctuating exchange rate doesn’t help matters any. A decade or so ago, there really wasn’t that much of a problem, because the dollar was so strong against an incredibly weak and unstable peso. Back then, with prices so low and the dollar [...]