 Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico Most of these bronze statues are life size or larger, they really are
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 Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico No matter how many times we drove by, it seemed there were always
people sitting inside this bronze taxi. Finally we gave up and just
took the picture anyway. What a hoot! |
 Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico This is actually a copper Pacifico Beer kettle. Usually, there is
water flowing over the surface of the kettle like a fountain, but on this
particular day the water was turned off for some reason. |
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico This is the Monumento al Pescador and it is very large! |
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico The name Mazatlan means, 'Place of the deer' in the ancient Aztec
language of Nahuatl. And so the deer is sort of the cities mascot,
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico Compared to the other statues, this one was very tiny. She was so
pretty, tucked in amongst the trees and bushes. We almost did not
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 Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico This picture and the next two pictures are all of the same statues,
however, it was so big we had to take three pictures in order to fully
capture its beauty. |
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico This one was so adorable. It was out on a rock, so we could not
get closer to it. It is hard to see the details, however, it is such
a sweet one we decided to include it anyway. |
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 Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico Climbing El Faro the second time was not nearly as hard as it was the
first time. It is a very challenging climb. Today is our 5th
Wedding Anniversary and we knew we would be going out for dinner and
enjoying numerous snacks today. So, we thought we would start the
day off with some serious exercise. |
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico As most of you know, we decided to dress just like we did for our
wedding day in the South Pacific. We were married on May 20, 2000.
We could not get over how much we looked like we did five years ago.
It was fun to dress up and go out for dinner to celebrate. We do
admit, however, that it felt strange getting all 'dolled up'. We have dressed and
looked like beach bums for so long :) |
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico Maleno from the RV park recommended we go to a restaurant called El Bigotes, Carnitas El Camino. They had this incredible salsa called 'Increible Salsa Criminal'. We are sure glad we did, it was a beautiful, bright, cheery, friendly
restaurant, all outside in the shade and sunshine. Just beautiful. |
 Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico Can you guess what we had for dinner? We are sure that many of
you guessed 'Carnitas"!! And they were delicious! We bought a
whole kilo, as we often do when we eat Carnitas, so that we would have
leftovers. |
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leftovers. Yummy! |
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico This beauty was right outside the front of the restaurant. |
 Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico We were shocked and pleased that the staff of Mar Rosa RV Park decided
to spoil us with this incredible cake. The staff have become very
close friends of ours and we are going to miss them so much.
We look forward to going back to Mazatlan again. Hopefully next
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 Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico Out in front of the RV park, on the beach side, there were all kinds of
vendors selling all kinds of things. This fella was laden down with
baskets of every shape, size and colour. |
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico Has anyone in Canada or the U.S. heard of a clothing store called Senor
Frogs? They are all over Mazatlan and other large centers. We
got quite a kick out of their mannequins. We thought we had taken a
picture of the outside of one of their largest stores, however, we must
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico This sweet man is Pedro, the security guard at Mar Rosa. He was such a card. We had a lot of fun sneaking around, doing this exaggerated tip toeing, kind of like the cartoon pink panther... pretending we were hiding behind palm trees. He would pretend he could not see us and hide. He was such a funny guy. He started this game almost as soon as we got to Mar Rosa and we all kept playing it for the duration of our stay. We miss you Pedro!
Well, that's it for May, Part 3 of the Travel Log, and for our stay in Mazatlan. We miss it already. May, Part 4 has us heading down the coast and stopping at a number of places along the way. It's great to be travelling again!
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