San Blas, Mexico

Our road trip up the coast from Puerto Vallarta-Nuevo Vallarta has finally landed me to the town of San Blas. Yeah!

I've been looking forward to visiting San Blas since I found out I would be coming here.

I didn't know anything about the town before arriving other than that it was the title of a popular song by the rock band Mana (En El Muelle de San Blas).

So here I am and as it turns out, there's not really a "muelle" (or pier) here in town like what I had imagined.

There is, though, a government program to build a modern marina for vacationing yachts.

The views from the San Blas marina, however, just can't complete with the views from the San Blas beach.

But we didn't spend too much time chillin' in the sand before heading back into town and wandering it central plaza and quaint brick streets.

Then, to catch the sunset, we headed to the old Spanish counting house, perched high on a hilltop over town and lined with colonial-era cannons.