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.

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.

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. 

Whale watching season is upon us once again. 

Another finished stretch of the “Vía Corta” (short route) toll road from Guadalajara to Puerto Vallarta opened last week.

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.