Day 4 - PV Botanical Gardens

We have done lots of travelling in the tropics where the flora explodes in variety. Just walking along the streets here we've seen things such as jackfruit trees just like the ones we know from winter in Sri Lanka last year. We've eaten passion fruit for breakfast too. Many plants and trees were spread around the globe by people. The Portuguese used to trade with their empire in many spots around the globe hundreds of years ago. Of course, a lot of vegetation grows simply because it is suited to the environment. There are strikingly similarly-looking places at similar latitudes.

This was just a long winded way of introducing our main activity of the morning. We went to the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens. It's quite a trip south of town. It cost 20 pesos (about $1.75) each way and took at least 45 minutes for the bus to retrace some of the same Highway 200 we took yesterday. We passed the towns of Mismaloya and Boca. The bus dropped us right off at the entrance to the gardens.





Later, we will walk some more. We will go all around town during the evening hours again. I love this t-shirt weather in December. We've put on so many miles this way, I fear I will have to toss my sandals at the end of this, far-too-short week!