I’m sitting on a Mexican beach. The sun has only recently made its way over the Sierra mountains to warm the sands of Puerto Vallarta. Vallarta Heat — a women’s week created, organized and hosted by Torontonians — ends today. For the past seven days queer women from Kelowna, Seattle, Toronto, Hamilton, Boston, Calgary, New Mexico, Chile, Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara (as well as a couple of Canadians who have made Puerto Vallarta their home) have danced, drank, sang, snorkeled, chatted and flirted in the Mexican heat.

MIAMI and PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, March 17 /PRNewswire/ — The world- renowned Barcelo La Jolla de Mismaloya Hotel was recognized with the prestigious AAA Four Diamond Award for 2009. The Barcelo Premium branded hotel in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, has recently completed an extensive renovation to its public spaces and guest suites, and is in the final stages of adding an Italian themed fine dining restaurant.

Want to learn to ski? Head to the bunny hill. But if you’re on a sun and sand vacation on Mexico’s Pacific Coast and catching a wave catches your fancy, head to Sayulita.

About 45 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta, on a crescent-shaped beach below verdant hills, you’ll find perfect learning waves that pop up over a sandbar metres from shore, offering a break big enough for the novice, even if the only surfing you’ve done is on the Net.

Villa Premiere Hotel and Spa in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, is offering an all-inclusive special that includes room, massages, meals and drinks. Here in L.A., I was going to get a massage today, but I hardly need it now. Just reading about this deal, my stress is evaporating (though a ticket to Mexico would sure speed things along).

GUADALAJARA, Mexico, March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: PAC; BMV: GAP) (“the Company” or “GAP”) announced that on Friday, the Company officially inaugurated the new satellite terminal building at the Puerto Vallarta International Airport (the terminal has been in operation since December 22, 2007). Present at the opening ceremony were Mr. Luis Tellez Kuenzler, Minister of Communications and Transportation, as well as the personal representative of Mexican President Mr. Felipe Calderon, and Mr. Emilio Gonzalez Marquez, Governor of the State of Jalisco.

A whale of a travel sight is best preserved by memory, not cameras

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico – Before you even board your whale-watching boat with Vallarta Adventures, the company sends out an airplane to find whales for you to watch. That’s practically a guarantee you will see whales, which is pretty exciting. I settled into my seat, touched up my sunscreen, set my cap firmly on my head and reached into my daypack for my camera.

Get Active on Mexican Riviera Cruise

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – A-yeee. That’s me whipping across a 1,000-foot zip line, high above a subtropical rainforest in Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains. I feel like Tarzan, even if the harness attached to the line belies the fact I don’t have the strength of the ape-man. A slight decline and pulleys are propelling me down the line. This thrilling experience may not be what you expect when you sign on for a relaxing one-week Mexican Riviera cruise on a Princess Cruises ship – in this case the 2,000-passenger Dawn Princess. But who says cruises can’t come with adrenaline rushes.

SAYULITA, Mexico — For some residents of this formerly secret surfers’ haven on the Pacific coast, the sure sign of gentrification came in December with the opening of the town’s first wine bar. Others cite the $18,000 life-size wooden horse displayed at a swank home décor shop north of town as evidence of the area’s seismic demographic shift. Still others point down the beach toward gated Punta Mita, where new villas start at $4 million.

Could celebrity sightings be far away?

On the prowl in Puerto Vallarta’s shops

My father-in-law made a suggestion, but his wife was having none of it. “He forgets who’s El Jefe today,” she sniffed, drawing herself up to her full 5-foot-nuthin’ as she led us down a narrow sidewalk. You might remember my column about dining in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, with El Jefe. For those who don’t hang on my every word, my husband’s parents, Thomas B. and JoAnn Battles, visit PV several times a year and know it well. Tom was nicknamed “El Jefe” (the head, or chief) by a Mexican cab driver and the name stuck. His wife, then, is La Jefa.

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico – Two states of mind coexist in this resort area on Mexico’s warm Pacific Coast. And they couldn’t be more different, as my sister and I discovered.To the north of the airport lies spanking new Nuevo Vallarta in Nayarit state. To the south, old Vallarta in Jalisco. My sister and her husband stayed at the new jewel of Nayarit’s tourism industry – the Four Seasons Resort at Punta Mita – and even weeks of planning weren’t enough for them to get the digs they wanted.

All-inclusive a great way for family vacation – CNN.com

NUEVO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — Decisions can be tough to make at Marival Resort & Suites: Margarita or martini? Steak or calamari? Tennis or climbing wall? All without pulling a peso from your pocket. Marival is a giant all-inclusive resort, a sort of dryland cruise ship where you pay one upfront fee for lodging, food, drink and entertainment. Gasp if you will, reader of Conde Nast Traveler, but for a vacation in a foreign country with four children, this is the only way to go.

Perhaps you’re among those fortunate enough to have witnessed a green flash at the instant the sun sets; however for most, they’ve only heard of the phenomenon. One such area for viewing the green flashes is Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where, during the “high season” of November through May when the average daily temperature is 73°F with virtually no chance of rain, thousands of people religiously watch for this rare instantaneous event every evening at sunset.

Keeping Up With New Developments In Riviera Nayarit

Stretching luxuriously along Mexico’s magnificent mid-Pacific Coast, Riviera Nayarit was unknown to most international travelers only a few years ago. Now, it is hard to keep up with the impressive new attractions and services, including a wealth of new resorts and golf courses and, for lucky residents of Memphis and nearby cities, new air service.

Magnitude 80 smashes Puerto Vallarta record

Doug Baker’s Magnitude 80 smashed the elapsed-time record, and the largest Division I boats dominated the handicap standings of San Diego Yacht Club’s biennial San Diego-to-Puerto Vallarta race. Baker’s 80-foot turbo sled completed the distance in three days, 15 hours, 47 minutes and 35 seconds – knocking six hours and eight minutes off the previous record set by Roy Disney’s Pyewacket in 1998.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nayarit, Mexico — As the sun eased into the silky blue hammock of the Pacific Ocean, Frank Smith, a barefooted U.S. expat, braked a dune buggy by the palm trees on this pristine village beach.

He hoisted a Styrofoam cooler and dumped out the unlikely contents: not tequila or Coronas, but a cascade of coarse sand and three dozen palm-sized sea turtles.

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico–(HISPANIC PR WIRE � PRNewswire)–February 29, 2008–The Vallarta Zoo celebrates another victory over extinction. Nine cubs were born at the zoo in the last few weeks: 2 Golden Bengal Tigers, 4 Black Panthers and 3 Common Bengal Tigers. The baby cubs are already drawing locals and tourists from all over the world, who are making the journey for the sole experience of playing, hugging and taking pictures with the kittens.