Today was a really early day. Ship docked at 8 am and our tour gathered on the pier at 8:15 for 8:30 departure. All four of us were going on the Historic Old Mazatlan Walking Tour. Yup, FOUR hours of walking in 100% humidity. Nice, NOT!!! Our tour guide, Alicia, was very informative and kept us going. We walked along the coastline by Ice Box Hill, monuments of La Mazatleca and El Venadito, the cliff divers, historic buildings in Old Mazatlan and we even got to go through the downstairs home of a bakery. Of course she brought us there to hopefully buy some of her baked goods, using the old historic photos on the walls to show us the past. We sat in the new Angela Peralta Theater, rebuilt after it was destroyed in a storm, while Alicia gave us some history and current events of this building. Oh Mazatlan means deer, thought that was interesting. We toured the old city market which reminded me of any other market in a less developed part of any foreign country. This market just happens to be Spanish speaking. I must say it does smell better than the ones in China and some other less developed European countries. Our tour ended at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception in the middle of Old Mazatlan.
I wish I had the energy to go into the Golden Zone, the modern side of Mazatlan, but the 100% humidity did a number on me. That's why I don't do well in tropical countries during the summer. The humidity is unbearable!
We returned to the ship in a van with part of the group. There wasn't enough room so he got to take the pneumonia with the tour guide. What's a pneumonia? It's a open car (taxi) with no window and doors. Alicia told us it got it's name because people would get sick after taking it in the winter. We stopped in the visitor center where we posed with Senor Frog, dad and YK had a real Corona before we boarded the ship for lunch and napped in the afternoon.
Here are some photos from day 4.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Chang.GraceC/Mazatlan
I wish I had the energy to go into the Golden Zone, the modern side of Mazatlan, but the 100% humidity did a number on me. That's why I don't do well in tropical countries during the summer. The humidity is unbearable!
We returned to the ship in a van with part of the group. There wasn't enough room so he got to take the pneumonia with the tour guide. What's a pneumonia? It's a open car (taxi) with no window and doors. Alicia told us it got it's name because people would get sick after taking it in the winter. We stopped in the visitor center where we posed with Senor Frog, dad and YK had a real Corona before we boarded the ship for lunch and napped in the afternoon.
Here are some photos from day 4.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Chang.GraceC/Mazatlan
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