Mexico
A 10-day trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
A working Pacific coastal city where steep Sierra Madre jungle directly meets colonial cobblestones, seafood stalls, and open bay water.
Unlike purpose-built resort strips like Cancun or Nuevo Nayarit, Puerto Vallarta developed as a functioning Mexican port and silver-shipping hub before Hollywood put it on the map. Cobblestone corridors, red-tiled roofs, and lush mountain slopes run straight down into Banderas Bay. It blends vibrant local food markets and an unmatched LGBTQ+ nightlife scene with water taxi access to off-grid coastal villages, all without sargassum weed or high-speed tollway barriers separating you from the street life.
Trip length
10 days
What your 10-day plan includes
- A day-by-day itinerary with neighborhoods clustered so you spend less time in transit.
- Real budget awareness — a target, an estimate, and a status you can dial up or down.
- Recommendations shaped by your pace, food priorities, group, and must-dos.
- Swap anything, improve any day, refine in any direction without starting over.
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