Which way to the beach?

Our hotel, Luguna del Tule in
San Patricio-Melaque














Serious sand activities















Jackson, Grady and Lucinda in Melaque
discussing where to go out to dinner

Sunset over the Pacific from our hotel balcony

The quintessential beach holiday: sun, sand, and surf. To say that our time in San Patricio-Melaque was perfecto would be an understatement. (If you're looking for Melaque on a map, it's between Manzanillo and Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific Coast)

We enjoyed three full days and four nights with our friends from Toronto (Kristi, Greg, Jackson and Grady) at the quiet Bungalows Laguna del Tule hotel right on the Pacific Ocean. The hotel came complete with a large swimming pool (avec swim-up bar), it's own restaurant, a lagoon to the east where the iguanas hang out (and apparantly some crocs too), and it's fair share of Canadian guests.

Some of our activities: a walk into dusty but quaint downtown Melaque, a visit to the circus, (which happened to be in town) dinner out at Ava's on rib night, seeing the festival of the Three Kings on January 6th in the main square of Melaque along with most of the town residents and tourists, a drive to nearby Barra de Navidad to see the surf and surfers, watching the kids perform their own circus show and of course plenty of lounging on the beach.