Showing posts with label Sayulita Nayarit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sayulita Nayarit. Show all posts

Monday, May 21, 2012

Photos and videos of Sayulita, Nayarit


By Jack Brummet, Mexico Travel Editor

I recently spent 2 1/2 weeks in Bucerias, Nayarit (our fifth visit there).  On previous trips, we have made the trek north to Sayulita numerous times.  I'm not quite sure why, except there has always been a buzz about the place.  When we've been there with our children, they were always interested in going because--unlike Bucerias--there are waves large enough for actual surfing.  Other than those waves, Sayulita always just seemed like a sleepy almost featureless town.  But fast forward several years and Sayulita has become extremely hip--a kind of Brooklyn/Oakland/Ballard of the Nayarit Riviera.  The New York Times travel section has had several articles about Sayulita in the last couple of years. Even though the beach is small, with large rocks near the shore, it is more popular than ever (especially with gringos/gabachos).  It was fascinating seeing it in the middle of the big Mexican Easter break.  There were many hundreds of Mexican tourists and visitors.




On the outskirts of town--Sayulita looks just about like it always has.  Except, on the outskirts of 
town,  you suddenly see about thirty tour buses parked in newly expanded parking lots.

During this post-Easter week, many bars in town featured women in various stages
of dress and undress hawking, a/k/a marketing,  Modelo, Pacifico, and Tecate cervezas.

The Tecate brewski gals

Surfers


Boards, boogie boards, and inflatable kayaks and motorboats to rent...



College age kids on the beach, and one thing I'd never seen in 
Mexico--girls walking the beach with quarts of beer in hand.

The best thing about our day at the beach were the bands--las bandas.  There were 
three of them playing, and even sometimes engaging in battles of the bands. . .



A drum band and some ferocious boot shaking.





There are some nice art galleries in Sayulita now.  This is an oil painting of Jesus.

Another oil painting.  Wow.
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Friday, April 06, 2012

Banda Music in Sayulita, Nayarit

By Jack Brummet, Mexico Travel Editor



On the beach in Sayulita today, there were thousands of Mexican tourists. The Americans and Canadians have largely cleared out (this is true of our other visits here...in April, the Americans stop coming and the Mexicans have their beaches back).  A couple clips of the drum band (and of whom I unfortunately failed to get a great clip of) and the marching band (tuba, three trombones, three trumpets, two drummers, two clarinetists, and a flugel horn player) are below.  The drum band clip includes some pretty enthusiastic booty shaking by an audience member.

I am going to write in detail about this later, but Sayulita--far different than we experienced before, when it was a pretty sleepy surfing village)--is a lot like Fort Lauderdale in the day.  By noon or so, most of the younger folk were clutching and swilling quarts of Pacifico and Modelo. 

Banda Buchona
The tuba player, soloing for KeeKee (I think he was sweet on her)

 

The unnamed drum band and their booty-shaking fan

Today, there were at least two bands playing, and sometimes competing.  Interestingly, neither of the bands even passed the hat. . .or sold CDs...




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Thursday, April 05, 2012

A painting for Good Friday/Black Friday I saw today in Sayulita, Nayarit

By Jack Brummet, Mexican Travel Editor

A fascinating and probably controversial painting I saw today in a gallery in Sayulita (a town maybe 20 miles up the coast from Bucerias, about which more later tonight...).

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