Mazatlán....who knew?
We had never heard of Mazatlán. After a few months in Guadalajara, we were looking for a Pacific Coast beach town to spend a few months. Puerto Vallarta seemed too big and too expensive. The bohemian surf town of Sayulita certainly popped up on the radar, but as we had spent a few months in similar Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca and Montañita in Ecuador in recent years, we kept searching. We also thought about reliving the glory days of the Hollywood stars of the 1940's in Acapulco, but a recent hurricane had almost destroyed the beachfront. I forget all the other reasons, but the major tourist destination Mazatlán, it was to be. The Malecón seawall stretches 13 miles along the coast of Mazatlán. The name is derived from the Spanish malacosta or bad coast, probably dating back to the times when the Spanish developed Mazatlán as a port to import equipment and export product from for the nearby gold and silver mines. The Malecón begins in the Zona Dorada, the high end, heavily touristic
