some impressions from méxico’s second largest city.

If you don´t want to attract attention here, you should do everything with a surfboard under your arm, even going shopping. Long before sunset, the waiter picked up the chairs and the sun umbrellas and told us, we were welcome to sit a bit longer and if we want to have some cold dinks he recommended the neighboring oxxo (a small supermarket chain). Beach vendors offer everything from suggar candies to cigars, from hammocks to sun umbrellas. Those guys are not necessarily on the bright side.

… some more impressions from the market hall in mazatlán.

The theater “teatro ángela peralta was built in the years 1869 till 1874 as an opera house and later on it was used as a cinema. In 1964 the operation discontinued and in 1975 it the hurricane “oilvia” hit it badly and gave it the rest. It collapsed completely and the city government wanted to tear it down. In the late 80s there was initative to save the theater, in 1990 it was declared as a national cultural monument and it reopened again in 1990.

The old town is pitoresk, many newly renovated buildings alternate with complete ruins and often the fresh painted facade is a pure scenery. Be sure to visit the covered market place.