local artist and his watercolors on the PV malecon
 

Puerto Vallarta malecon boardwalk from the Paradise Burger restaurant terrace looking south
 

Puerto Vallarta Mexico - el malecon downtown
 

Puerto Vallarta sunset on the malecon, seahorse and Marigalante pirate ship
 

along the New Malecon boardwalk promenade
 

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

along the ocean-front New Malecon at night
 

Mexican artist Sergio Bustamante Puerto Vallarta art gallery store front downtown
 

one of the sand sculptures along the Puerto Vallarta malecon ("thank you for your tips")
 

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

Sea turtles hatching on the beach downtown January 2010
 

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

part of one of Vallarta's most famous statues - In Search of Reason by Sergio Bustamante,
a well-known Puerto Vallarta artist
 

The moon overlooking Puerto Vallarta sculpture In Search of Reason -
this is one of the most popular Puerto Vallarta art works,
as people love to climb the ladder and have their pictures taken
 

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

Puerto Vallarta performance artists on the malecon during New Year holidays
 

Puerto Vallarta night clubs Hard Rock Cafe, Mandala, the Zoo bar 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
 

swinging bridge over the Cuale river
 

bright and cheerful Puerto Vallarta shopping on the Cuale River island
 

Statue to John Huston on the Cuale River island
The famed director-writer received 15 academy award nominations in his lifetime and lived
on and off for many years in his beach-front house/estate in Las Caletas on the South Shores.
He is of of course remembered locally for filming Tennessee Williams' brilliant play
The Night of the Iguana here in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 1963.
 

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

"Water you are not going to drink, let it run."  - Mexican proverb

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