Fiesta de Fin de Año 2008

Celebrate New Years 2008 on the Malecón at the official Puerto Vallarta New Years Celebration with Banda Caña Brava from 10:30 until Midnight when all hell breaks loose and the skies over Vallarta are filled with an amazing display of fireworks coming from all corners of the City and up and down the Bay.

The band will be at the Seahorse Sculpture. The street will be closed. There will be thousands of people dancing and drinking and having a good time. If you have to divide Puerto Vallarta New Years between the gringo version and the Mexican version, this is the place to be for the Mexican version. It is extremely lively, my favorite venue.

Many of the restaurants downtown will offer special dinners.

HINT: It will almost be impossible to get a taxi after midnight. The streets will be too crowded and the drivers will be partying.

POSTSCRIPT:
The fireworks display for this 2008 New Years lasted for over 20 minutes, one of the longest, largest displays that this city has seen.

Many restaurants and bars offer “New Years Eve Specials” but my personal favorite location for celebrating New Years in Puerto Vallarta is on the streets of Old Town. Olas Altos street is closed to vehicular traffic, bands are set up and thousands of people gather to dance in the New Year. Actually, most people hang out on the beach (Los Muertos) for the half hour before midnight to watch the fireworks which come from all parts of the City and the Bay.

On Los Muertos Beach, itself, fireworks displays are everywhere. It almost becomes a war-zone with the explosions and brilliant fireworks which last for quite a while because, so it seems, no one really has an accurate clock to mark the changing of the years. The displays last approximately 10 minutes total, from one end of the bay to the other.

A little farther north on the beach at the Los Arcos Amphitheater/Presidencia Square, the City puts on a fireworks display that is second to none. You can see most of it from anywhere around the bay, but if you want to be in the middle of this excitement, smoke, flame, crowds, nothing matches this location.

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