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Puerto Vallarta Shopping Mecca for Mexican Arts & Crafts

Puerto Vallarta in the state of Jalisco is not one of Mexico's crafts producing center. However, the city does have a number of attributes that make it a shopping Mecca for Mexican crafts, folk-art and fine art, suited to every style of shopper.

First on that list of attributes, Puerto Vallarta's international airport provides easy accessibility with numerous arrivals and departures from major U.S.

and Canadian hubs daily. The city's primary shopping areas are easily accessible from hotels and condos on foot or by bus or taxi. Most of these areas are within walking distance of each other and all provide a variety of merchandise. For the adventurous bargain hunter, inexpensive unique handmade items can be found in the villages of the surrounding mountains and in nearby smaller beach towns. While for the less energetic or physically challenged shopper the product will come to you.

The typical crafts of Mexico, pottery, leather, textiles, ceramics, blown glass, wood carving, hammered copper, silver work and jewelry are not historically made in the Puerto Vallarta area. Crafts representing all the major craft regions of Mexico are brought into the city resulting in a thriving and competitive market. You will pay more in Puerto Vallarta than you would in a major crafts producing state like Michoacan for an item made in Michoacan, but in Puerto Vallarta you have the convenience of seeing and choosing from a wide variety of items representing all of Mexico's folk-art and handcrafts.

In the Puerto Vallarta Colonia Emiliano Zapata, along the streets Insurgentes, Basillo Badilo, Lazaro Cardenas, Vallarta, Madera, Carranza shops selling a variety of Mexican made products at a range of prices mix with the nuts and bolts businesses frequented daily by Mexican families and ex-pat locals. Some product prices may be padded for the tourist, but with pleasant slow paced looking a shopper can find unique and precious handcrafted items at reasonable prices.

In recent years specialty shops representing a particular Mexican craft have joined the variety shop. For instance on the street Basillo Badilo in Colonia Emiliano Zapata, a shop specializing in hand hammered copper from the famed copper village of Santa Clara De Cobre in the state of Michoacan opened across the street from Mundo de Azuelos, a long establish shop that produces hand-painted tiles and sells Talavera ceramics. The Talavera style of ceramic decoration

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