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One final sunrise shot from Playa la Ropa.
Our 4 weeks in Zihuatanejo for 2022 is done like dinner.
Hasta Luego.
And that's a wrap. Finally, this 2021 trip to Mexico is done like dinner.
One goodbye sunset over Bahia de Zihuatanejo from the Catalina Beach Resort on Playa la Ropa.
The tide is out on Playa la Ropa in Bahia de Zihuatanejo. The beach is 1 Km long. It's the weekend so many vacationers from the Mexican interior are beaching it.
The low white structure below the parasail is the Catalina Beach Resort where we stay.
The Catalina property is huge and overdue for being snapped up by investors to redevelop. The greenery either side is Catalina property.
This mural was shot from the second floor dining room of a favourite restaurant on Calle Adelita - Restaurante el Vado Pizzas y Grill.
Zihuatanejo, or Zihua as it’s affectionately called, is a Pacific paradise of beautiful beaches, friendly people and an easygoing lifestyle. Until the 1970s it was a sleepy fishing village, but with the construction of Ixtapa next door, Zihua’s tourism industry boomed practically overnight.
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Walking into Centro on Calle Adelita we passed cat keeping an eye on our passage.
Cat has cool blue eyes.
Not yet December but the supply of poinsettias has arrived. Each year vendors set up in a small shaded park between Plaza Kioto & the drainage canal.
The beach walkway on Playa Madera has a spiffy new ZIHUA sign that lights at night. The sign is a camera magnet.
At the south end of Playa la Ropa is a small mangrove estuary On the south bank of the estuary near the estuary outlet to Bahia de Zihuatanejo is restaurant El Manglar.
Access to the restaurant is via a short foot bridge crossing the estuary outlet.
The are a few crocodiles inhabiting the estuary and often to visit the estuary outlet to bask in the sun like this one is doing.
Morelet's crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii), also known as the Mexican crocodile, is a modest-sized crocodilian found only in fresh waters of the Atlantic regions of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.
These crocs typically grow to about 3 metres (10 ft) in length.
Vendors on Bahia de Zihuatanejo Playa la Ropa offer beach goers several types of entertainment.
A "Dope on a Rope" salesman attempts to entice riders by inflating his parasail on the beach.
At the south end of Playa la Ropa is a small mangrove estuary On the south bank of the estuary near the estuary outlet to Bahia de Zihuatanejo is restaurant El Manglar.
The restaurant feeds the estuary iguana daily at lunch time. This causes a flurry of iguana jousting for morsels of green leafy veggies.
The iguana regularly approach restaurant diners to see if a bite might be tossed their way.
El Manglar is a popular lunch spot approximately 30 feet off the beach. The temperature in the grove is about 20 degrees F cooler than the beach so a nice heat escape with entertainment.
This sculpture in the garden at Zihuatanejo Hotel Catalina has always caught my eye and is a mystery to me as to it's origin. Placed here in the 1950's by the original hotel owner or when?
In the rear right is the trunk of a Ceiba (Silk Flower) tree.
Zihuatanejo improved its dedicated cycling and pedestrian network with an overpass crossing Avenida Jose Maria Morelos Y Pavon.
The overpass and connecting pathway joins Centro Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa pathways. Ixtapa -Zihuatanejo bike path is approximately 25 kilometres distance.
2021 the overpass supports received a colourful paint job.
One day we hired a tourist guide for a visit to nearby Xihuacan Archaeological Zone and Museum.
Xihuacan is a Mesoamerican archeological site with a small museum near the small town of La Soledad de Maciel.
After a museum and site visit we went into the small village of La Soledad to visit a resident who has his own collection of archeological artifacts from the Xihuacan Archeological Zone.
This is a street in the village.
A local man paddles a kayak from his anchored skiff in the bay to the nearby shore at Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico.
Ted's morning routine - a Playa La Ropa beach walk 06:30 to 07:30 before the sun overheats the beach. Two pre-sunrise shots.
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One day we hired a tourist guide for a visit to nearby Xihuacan Archaeological Zone and Museum.
Xihuacan is a Mesoamerican archeological site with a small museum near the small town of La Soledad de Maciel.
The archeological zone is the most important in the Costa Grande in the state of Guerrero.
Archeologists In Xihuacan uncovered two places where the playball game where practiced for fun purposes in one and one for the deity Teotlachtli what can be translated from the Nahuatl like Lord of the Playball Game.
One on the north of the Ceremonial Centre for religious and astronomic events and human offering.
This one on the south side is where bones and human remains were found.
A study of the region by archeologists date the court from 600AD to 900AD.
Xihuacan is one of more than 50 archaeological sites in the area surrounding Zihuatanejo,
Xihuacan opened to the public for the first time in 2013
In late evening, fisher men and fisher ladies bring their catch to the landing area in Centro and then transport it to the end user.
These two were waiting for the truck and driver for pick up.
The liquor shelving at Restaurante Il Mare.
The restaurant has a cozy atmosphere perched on a cliff overlooking Playa Madera. It’s a long time favourite. Fernando the owner also has a place in San Miguel Allende.
Mornings I walk the beach on Playa la Ropa for one hour before the sun peaks over the horizon.
Each morning there are the same few locals digging for clams at the waters edge.
These two clam collectors have their collection bags firmly clenched in their teeth.
Our Zihuatanejo vacation centres on Playa la Ropa on Bahia de Zihuatanejo.
The bay has four beach areas - Principal, Madera, la Ropa & las Gatas.
One day we hired a tourist guide for a visit to nearby Xihuacan Archaeological Zone and Museum.
Xihuacan is a Mesoamerican archeological site with a small museum near the small town of La Soledad de Maciel.
The visit included a local indigenous entertainer who controlled site access and performed a fire ritual dance, for Peso donations.
Olmec and Teotihuacán peoples occupied this site in the pre-classic period (2500 BC to AD 200).