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Mexico Part 3: Vallarta Botanical Garden

27 November 2024 • 89 km / 56 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 18 December 2024
  • Mexico 13

A friend who lives in the area recommended we visit the Vallarta Botanical Garden. We drove to the garden today. It did not disappoint.

Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico · by Lisa Rozmyn

As one might expect, there was an interesting mix of Catholic tradition and dia de los muertos (Halloween) on display.

A small terracotta-pink Spanish colonial chapel with a domed bell tower topped by a cross, fronted by a curved fan of orange-painted steps lined with potted plants and a wrought-iron cross above the gabled facade. A decorative pebble mosaic with spiral patterns covers the ground in the foreground, and lush green trees surround the chapel under a clear sky.
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico
A black-and-white infrared photograph of a courtyard at a botanical garden, where an intricate pebble mosaic of swirling spiral patterns covers the ground in front of curved fan-shaped stone steps leading up to an arched doorway. Glowing white ferns, palm fronds and potted plants frame the scene around the steps and walkways.
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico · by Lisa Rozmyn
A small pale statue of a robed Virgin Mary sits within an arched stone niche set in a coral-pink wall, lit by warm orange light. Green leaves in the foreground frame and partly obscure the view at the Vallarta Botanical Garden.
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico
A weathered white statue of the Virgin Mary stands inside a niche in a coral-pink stucco shrine, flanked by two decorative white skull masks set atop tiled pedestals and surrounded by lush tropical foliage including snake plants and broad green leaves.
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico

Let’s not forget the plants themselves …

Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico · by Lisa Rozmyn

… and the resident peacocks!

Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico
A male peacock with iridescent blue head and neck displays its fully fanned tail, a sweeping array of eye-spotted feathers in shimmering green, gold, blue, and purple filling the frame.
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico
Close-up profile of a male Indian peacock showing its iridescent blue head and neck, white facial markings around a dark eye, pale beak, and the distinctive fan-shaped crest of feathers, against a softly blurred green background.
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico · by Lisa Rozmyn
A close-up of the underside of a large green bird’s nest fern frond, showing rows of brown linear spore clusters (sori) arranged in a herringbone pattern along the central rib. Sunlit foliage and other tropical plants are visible in the blurred background.
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico
Close-up of a tree trunk with reddish, cinnamon-colored peeling bark curling away in flakes to reveal smoother pale layers underneath, with blurred green foliage in the background. Photographed at the Vallarta Botanical Garden in Jalisco, Mexico.
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico
A large golden silk orb-weaver spider with long reddish and dark banded legs and a spotted brown-and-white body hangs in its web, with bundled prey or debris clusters caught in the silk and a blurred green foliage background.
Vallarta Botanical Garden, south of Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico
Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit, to Las Juntas y Los Veranos, Jalisco, Mexico, and back · 89 km / 56 mi
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