Nuno and friends at the Friendship Fountain downtown
 

local artist and his watercolors on the Vallarta malecon
 

along the New Malecon boardwalk walkway
 

over the Cuale river from South Side-Olas Altas area into downtown
 

along the ocean-front New Malecon at night
 

Mexican artist Sergio Bustamante art gallery-store downtown
 

one of the sand sculptures along the Puerto Vallarta malecon
 

Clown/payaso entertaining the crowds Sunday nights at the Puerto Vallarta malecon Los Arcos amphitheater
 

Turtles hatching on the beach downtown January 2010
 

the Angel of Hope - one of the new statues on the boardwalk
 

one of Vallarta's most famous statues - In Search of Reason by Sergio Bustamante
 

the moon overlooking Puerto Vallarta sculpture In Search of Reason
 

La Nostalgia by sculptor Ramiz Barquet on the downtown boardwalk since 1984
 

Puerto Vallarta performance art on the malecon during New Year holidays
 

Puerto Vallarta night clubs Hard Rock, Mandala, the Zoo and La Vaquita (l. to r.)
 

Buddha sand sculpture on the downtown malecon beach
 

the downtown Puerto Vallarta friendship fountain with dolphins - a gift from Santa Barbara, CA
 

sculpture to Xiutla folkloric dancers
 

Puerto Vallarta cathedral Our Lady of Guadalupe, city hall (left) and main downtown plaza - photo thanks to Danny Martens
 

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Off the Malecon
 

the brightly colored Municipal flea market along the Cuale River
 

Located since 1996 at Libertad and Agustín Rodríguez streets across from the municipal/flea market
is Ramiz Barquet's bronze statue El Pescador, The Fisherman.
Barquet called his “fisherman/poet” Isidro
 

Bridge over the Cuale river
 

bright and cheerful shopping on Cuale river island
 

Statue to famed director-writer John Huston on the Cuale river island
 

Cuale river in July as it runs through town to Banderas Bay
 
 

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Emiliano Zapata

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