We don’t get visitors from the north very often. Members of my family came more often when we lived in San Carlos. My mother has had a number of health problems preventing her from visiting us in Mazatlan. Most of them have cleared up except that now she has momentarily blips of unconsciousness and wakes up just as she hits the floor. Her house has nice thick carpeting but we only have hard tile. She sure loves Mexico so I hope she can visit us again. She is now 94. Some of my long time readers might remember when I drove the two of us in our RV from Colorado to Nayarit back in December 2012. She was 83 then and so brave.
Anyway, my daughter flew down and we wanted to show her as much as possible in a short five days. She was interested in seeing the aquarium, purported to be one of the largest in Latin American. There has always been an aquarium here but this a new grand aquarium opened in the spring in Parque Central which is behind our condo towers. A museum is also planned for the park and looks to be impressive from the pictures I have seen. We received a discount for being residents of Mazatlan and for being old.
This is just a small sample of what there is and I think we missed some. The aquarium needs to provide a map (I asked and there aren’t any) as the layout is confusing and there are other structures in the park-like setting. Lauren developed a blister on her foot right away and we had to stop exploring.
We had planned to go to the Observatorio Mazatlan with a funicular ride up a hill for the views, a museum, a cactus garden, aviary, and skybar. But the day before, we were eating at Casa Hindie Tea House and the man at the next table chatted with us and said he thought the restaurant La Marea was a better choice for the money. So we went there and will go to the Observatorio at another time. It’s half off for seniors on Thursdays anyway and Lauren wasn’t here on a Thursday.
We took a very reasonably priced Didi cab as there is minimal parking here.
But now I am on a mission to photograph all the statues called Manigotes for Carnival that have recently gone up along the Malecon. So far I have five and I think there might be about 12 total but I’m really not sure.
Wanderlets 