However, shopping is fun and another way to meet people or learn more about this fine community.

Puerto Vallarta offers diversified shopping opportunities, from a very sophisticated shop in Old Town, aka Zona Romantica, to well-known shops at Marina Vallarta to very friendly beach vendors.

It is up to you what you would really like to purchase or add to your collection. For example, we are collectors of the primitive musical instruments and masks from all over the world. You may buy them in galleries, souvenir shops, or from beach vendors. In our case, the most beautiful artistic mask we bought on our last day was at the beach. The vendor himself was an artist, and it was fun to haggle the price. In the end, we got surprisingly high-quality, good art and talked for about 3 hours with the artist about subjects we would have never been able to get information about elsewhere.