Laguna La Maria – Colima – Mexico
Laguna “the Maria” This lake is 22 km into the mountains from Comala. There is a recreational center with cabins (hotel), camping and modern RV spaces and a restaurant. There are small boats for rent but I’d suggest not for fishing since the lake water looks stagnant this time of year. We did see lots of fish along the shore.
We walked the kilometer to the lake and camping-picnic areas but you can drive all the way in along the lake. The only other people there were some ‘birders’ walking with their guide. Everything would be greener after the rainy season but it is still a very pretty area. Take your mosquito repellant. Cost to enter is/was $8 pesos per person.
Be sure to continue further up the road that leads to Lago Maria to the small town of La Yerba Buena that ws legally closed due to volcano danger. It was famous for it’s coffee and people still live there. Also the Colimotl processing plant in Cofradia de Suchitlan a few miles down the road.
Lago La Maria
Park Entrance
Cabins behind the restaurant
Boats for rent
Sal de Cuyutlan – Colima – Mexico
One of Cuyutlan’s attractions is it’s Museo de la Sal – Salt Museum (sponsored by the University of Colima), which displays the processing involved in the extraction of sea salt and its history. Nearby along the train tracks there are many weathered wooden storage sheds that were used for warehousing the salt before shipping. During the Spanish colonialization of Mexico, Cuyutlan was one of the
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La Vena Beach on the Costlegre, Jalisco – Mexico
I’d heard of this beach before and pictured it as being much more difficult to access and more primitive than it is. You turn into the Blue Bay resort road north of Melaque and La Manzanilla and the first guard is right there near the highway. He only wants to see the drivers ID so he can take your name and know
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I was getting low on coffee and very tired of Nescafe. The place(s) here in Melaque are charging 90 pesos a 1/2 kilo when only a few years ago I was paying 50 pesos. I’m referring to Cuzalapa coffee, the best coffee around and the only ones that do a dark roast. Anyway, all my neighbors were busy so I decided to drive up and see what the prices were and how the
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Gustavo Bernal, a Mexican potter from Michoacan
Gustavo Bernal is a native of Michoacán. This artisan pottery made of clay from Tlalpujahua is fired at high temperature and completely handmade. He started his work in Mexico City but wanted to be close to the source of his materials.
He studied at the school of pottery and porcelain MOA group with Japanese teachers for two years and has been making his
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