Tag: Los Flamingos Hotel

 

Pool at Los Flamingos where "Tarzan swam
Pool at Los Flamingos where “Tarzan swam

Our last day in Acapulco at Los Flamingos I started the day with a few laps in the pool and a breakfast of fruit and yogurt, gosh I almost feel like a heath nut. I can’t say enough about this hotel, with its interesting Hollywood past, hammocks on every terrace,

the beautiful grounds, good terrace restaurant right on the cliff, sunsets to die for, rooms with a terrace and a hammock and are naturally air-conditioned by the ocean breeze. So we packed,

Beautiful grounds
Beautiful grounds

watched the news, read lazed in the hammock, ate a lite lunch, but mostly interested in getting home to Zuatanejo.

KO in hammock on terrace
KO in hammock on terrace

We wished we had scheduled an earlier than 3 o’clock bus ride. We left the hotel at 1:30, caught a cab and didn’t arrive at the station until 2:40.  This should have been a 20 min trip at best, but…… Traffic during the day is horrendous, half the streets are torn up, but Acapulco drivers are the rudest, most aggressive, inconsiderate drivers I have ever seen.

Beautiful sunset fromnour room terrace
Beautiful sunset from our room terrace

absolutely no rules of the road.  I’ve been in heavy traffic in Rome and Naples, this was far worst. And to make matters worst there are 2 bus stations in Acapulco, Ejidio & Central.  We of course had no idea which we arrived in and our ticket s said Centro, but when we got to Centro we were told take a taxi to other station.  The trip home was uneventful, but long.  Even though it was a first class bus that didn’t mean non stop. More and better research next trip. The only reason I would return to Acapulco would be to stay at the hotel, it is a little slice of paradise on the highest cliff in Acapulco and possible to go to a bull-fight.  I know the current trend is that they are barbaric, but I have been to bull fights in Spain, and that bull is as mean as a junk yard dog, and the “torerros ” are as graceful as ballerinas,  and the pageantry is beautiful.  Enough said!

We were welcomed home by a trail of ants from the balcony along one wall to the front door.  Not welcome visitors, fortunately we had bug spray and solved the problem quickly.  So glad to be back in our little home away from home.  Signing off KO

ACAPULCO CLIFF DIVERS AND THE ZOCOLO

Our trip to Acapulco is all about seeing the cliff divers again, and getting some good photos and of course relaxing in the beautiful Hotel Los Flamingos.

Beautiful swan dive
Beautiful swan dive

Our day started with breakfast at the hotels terrace dining area, then we walked around the grounds, a veritable jungle of plants and trees and path ways, we located the pool with plans to swim later. Next we flagged a taxi outside our hotel grounds, most taxi’s are VW bugs.  This makes getting in and out of a bit difficult as some have the front seat moved all the way up to make it easier to get in the back and others have it pushed back so you can sit in the front.  Either way it’s a bit difficult and when you ask “cuanto cuesta “ to your destination they say “very cheap”, or “what you want to pay.”  Mostly it’s about 5 bucks to everywhere.

Divers scaling the cliff
Divers scaling the cliff

It is truly amazing as they start from the water and scale the cliff they are going to dive from.  No safety harness, no repelling gear, no pick axe or pegs, their only equipment is the “Speedo” they wear.  There are several different natural platforms in the cliff they dive from, that is if you can call a flat spot on the cliff that really isn’t more than a few inches wide a platform.  Their dives are graceful, and obviously well times with the tide and current.

The inlet is no more than 13 ft deep
The inlet is no more than 13 ft deep

The tiny inlet they dive into is only about 13 ft deep at the highest tide deepest current, with beautiful blue water, but the divers do a sweep to clean the water it of any floating debris that could cause them injuries

We choose to watch them from the lowest vantage point, a small pavilion a couple of hundred steps down the hillside.  It costs 40 pesos to watch from there and that money goes to the divers along with any tip money they can get from the tourists.

Going down was easy, going up hot and tiring but well worth the show, one of the divers we visited afterwards said he’d been diving for 18 years, which would have made him about 10 or 12 when he started.  Some of the other divers we saw were young, but not children. They were very gracious and signed shirts for our grandsons.IMG_5396We were amazed not only the height of their dives but at what beautiful dives they did.DSCN0289

Next we flagged VW cab and headed for the Zocolo.  Acapulco has a beautiful square with huge trees,  and a large gazebo facing the very busy street that runs along the water front, on the opposite side is a very beautiful church. Along both sides are shops and restaurants filled with people shopping and alley ways off the main square with shops and booths of just about everything. A small shop with very bright colors caught our eye and  I purchased two pairs of capri’s and the Senor bought 2 pairs of shorts for 6.90 pesos each.

Church at the Zocolo
Church at the Zocolo

Although it was past lunch time we weren’t really hungry and decided Ice cream would be just right.  We picked a side-walk café and ordered “malteados” which were listed in English as milk shakes.  Well milk shakes they were, I don’t think there was any ice cream in them at all, but tasty none the less. Then back to our lovely hotel for siesta and dinner.

As we opened our door on to the veranda, the wind came up quite strong, but it was a warm wind and continued most of the night.  We had a nice dinner of broiled chicken for the Senor and a tuna stuffed tomato for me as once again we watched the beautiful sunset.IMG_5413 We retired to our room to read catch up on the news and sort through our pictures.  A very pleasant day in Acapulco, a lovely place to visit, but too crowed and busy to ever want to stay here.  For some reason the internet went out and ended the news for the Senor and brought our day to a close. signing off KO