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For two, and the rest can wait
Vallarta's southern hillside drops to the sea in terraces, and that's where the houses nobody sees from the road hide: private entrances, a pool above the bay, town ten minutes away but out of earshot. Long days, dinners without a clock, and the sunset always straight ahead.
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Yelapa, Quimixto, Las Ánimas: a string of coves along the southern shore that no road reaches. A private boat means you set the pace — a long lunch on the sand, a walk to a waterfall, or simply anchoring somewhere quiet until the light goes.
A day built around doing very little: treatments drawing on Mexican traditions, a temazcal if you want one, and enough unscheduled time between them that you actually feel the difference.
Olive ridley turtles nest along this coast from summer into autumn, and protected camps collect the nests before the tide and the dogs get to them. Releasing hatchlings at dusk is a short, quiet thing that children remember for years.
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