Continuing our winter migration south, we’ve made another visit to La Cruz de Huanacaxtle. Adjacent to the marina there, a Sunday market started last year and has more than doubled in size recently.
Part of the increase in size is that the town square is being redone – some of the vendors may return to their original location when that public works project is finished.
The 75-some (at least!) vendors are drawing big crowds from beyond La Cruz and the marina. The “insiders” are showing up early to beat the crowds, it is getting difficult to move around at peak times.
We recently visited the Saturday market in “Old Town” Puerto Vallarta (which was great last year); the La Cruz venue is now the better of the two (several vendors attend both events).
The market has a wide variety of arts and crafts vendors, plenty of prepared food items, one very nice vegetable vendor (wish there were more – but this one has hard-to-find fabulous fresh fennel and basil), a florist and a few other miscellaneous sellers – cigars anyone?
Lots of folks eat their way through the market, there are a great array of both breakfast and lunch items and reasonable prices.
