Just off the beaten path in the great state of Michocan, lies El Faro de Bucerias. A place that once had hundreds if not thousands of tourists each year until recently. The news has described this area as being off limits due to La Familia’s(cartel) presence in the area. The military is everywhere, but then again so are all the little kids running around the street. We found ourselves stopped and searched by one military check point then just around the corner to find a group of 5 year olds waving flags and dangling a rope across the road. I’m not exactly sure exactly why they wanted us to stop, but they accepted our donation to pass.

Quite frankly, we haven’t been anywhere as pristine, secluded(at least with road access) as this place. Snorkeling, fishing, swimming, hiking and virtually nobody around except for a few stray dogs running were about all that was around. We definitely could of stayed there a lot longer than three days; but given the general time constraints we’re under, there sure wasn’t much to complain about. Manana we’ll find ourselves on a bus to Guadalajara in hopes to find a vocho(volkswagon bus/car) for our trip towards Belize. If all goes well, we hope to be in Belize 25th or so of January, making stops in Oaxaca and then north towards the state of Chiapas…