Mexico: Everybody's Hideaway

Acapulco is beginning to look like Miami Beach; Cuernavaca is more for the old folks. Where is the In place for tourists in Mexico this year? It is Puerto Vallarta, a remote little fishing village midway up the Pacific Coast, where everyone is going to warm his bones and taste what the travel folders call the "real, unspoiled Mexico."

Marlin & Mariachis. Ten years ago the only way to get to Vallarta (the In name for it was by boat or on burro-back over the Sierra Madre mountains.

There was a dirt airstrip but no commercial service. Fishermen caught mackerel and...

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