Puerto Vallarta - Favorite Vacation & Retirement Destination for US & Canadians

In 1963, Elizabeth Taylor followed Richard Burton to a sleepy little port on Mexico’s west coast where he was starring, along with Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner, in a John Huston-directed film called Night of the Iguana.

 Puerto Vallarta's Historic District has over a dozen galleries, fine restaurants and nighclubs

For his movie set, John Huston chose Mismaloya, a small village just south of Puerto Vallarta in the Mexican state of Jalisco, for its resemblance to a crumbling coastal village of the 1940s. Elizabeth Taylor took up residence in nearby Puerto Vallarta, which in the 1960s already had a small community of both Mexican and expat artists and writers, drawn by the weather, natural beauty, and relative isolation.

There's Magic in the Air With Mexico City's Charming Organ Grinders. Here's Their Story ~

Organ Grinders have been been playing the streets of Mexico City for over a century.

As the sprawling metropolis of Mexico City continues to lead the country in terms of modernization and change, a small guild of street workers maintains a tradition that has seen comparatively little change in more than a century.