We arrived in Mazatlan port at 8.00am. We had a tour to the Colonial Villages of Sierra Madre booked for 8.30 and had to assemble in the Phantom Room at 8am, so we were unable to get any photos of arriving in port.
When the tour group was all there we made our way out to the Peir where there were coaches waiting to take us on our adventure. We were directed to coach 21H by our soon to be tour guide Alma T.
Alma T was a bright and very funny local who just loved her home town. She said the Mazatlans very all full of life, they had their troubles but they didn't care. They work 8 months of the year and then have 4 months off. The children go to school all day and have a siesta in the middle of the day and have 4 months off like their parents.
In no time we were heading through this beautiful seaport city. We where even taken past the famous cliff driving area and got a quick glimpse of the activities.
We sat in 2 seats either side of the bus and I wasn't on the seaside so Hayley took some photos for me.
First we had a shopping tour at a jewellery store which didn't interest us at all. We had a quick look then headed back to the bus.
We were soon on our way again heading to our first village where we able to buy some freshly baked baked made by the locals in a wood fired oven $1usd for two pieces. It was more like a finger bun bread, sweet.
There was also a local man making handmade tiles on a press. I only took photos with the big camera for this activity. It was very fascinating and so artistic.
Throughout the whole tour I was feeling like I was in the quintessential Mexico from the cobbled stone streets to the old men sitting around with there hats on with nothing to do but listen to music.
Back on the bus we were heading to our next village of Concordia. This was a biggest of the 3 villages. We had lunch at this restaurant, Chicken and Beef fajitas.
We then ventured into the city centre to explore. Most Mexicans are Catholic and this church, St. Sebastian's, was great.
Everything is so festive and displays the colours of the Mexican flag.
Back on the bus again we headed to the village of Copala. This village used to be a thriving one but I'm not sure what happened but the tourist stopped coming for awhile but they are starting to come back now. It was a very traditional village with this beautiful church St Joesph.
The local school boys met our bus and tried to sell us the little wood carving they had made. Unfortunately we would not have been able to bring them home.
We saw many brightly building we saw throughout our days travel.
We also had a police escort for the whole day. Most of the time they were inconspicuous, until the end of the trip, when they wave us off.
The bus dropped us off at the cruise ship terminal and we had a wander through the markets then headed back to the ship.
These special shuttle trolleys took us across the dock and let us off at the loading dock.
This was our trowel animal waiting for us today.
At 5pm we went up to the top deck and watched the ship leave the port of Mazatlan.
And that's a sunset wrap of the day at the Port of Mazatlan.
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