The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Eastern Pacific hurricane season swung into full gear this week as category one Hurricane Blas roared up the Pacific coastline Thursday afternoon, with winds reaching around 75 mph.
Traffic on the highway from Guadalajara to Colima came to a halt some five kilometers east of the first bridge in the barrancas section of the road last weekend.
Another finished stretch of the “Vía Corta” (short route) toll road from Guadalajara to Puerto Vallarta opened last week.
The 187-kilometer new Via Corta (short route) highway, touted as a 2½ hour trip to Puerto Vallarta from Guadalajara, still has a long way to go.
A report in Spanish-language daily Mural suggests that the governor of Nayarit is keen to change the name of his state’s prime touristic region from Nuevo Vallarta to Nuevo Nayarit.
Several media outlets in the United Kingdom have published the story of a British backpacker who feared she might lose a leg after being bitten by a venomous Brown Recluse Spider while on a hike up the Cerro del Mono (Monkey Mountain) in Rivera Nayarit.
The Jalisco Health Department (SSJ) has admitted that it refused to allow more than 1,000 passengers on board the Holland America Line’s MS Koningsdam cruise ship to disembark in Puerto Vallarta on December 23, after 21 crew members were detected with Covid-19.
Whale watching season is upon us once again.
Three tragedies at Puerto Vallarta hotels in the space of a week emphasize the importance for parents and guardians to take extra care of small children while on vacation.
