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Willie and Lobo

This New Year’s Evening Performance at the River Cafe here in Puerto Vallarta will most likely be one of Willie & Lobo’s final performances together. There are no more tours planned for next year and the two are reportedly breaking up. Word on the street is that Lobo (Wolfgang Fink) already is putting together a new band.

The dinner and show are $120 (US)

Willie and Lobo 2007

12 Uvas » A Mexican New Years Tradition

Everyone here in Puerto Vallarta eats 12 grapes during the 12 strokes of the midnight bells….

This is an old Spanish tradition dating back to 1909. In December of that year, some Alicantese vine growers came up with the idea to better sell huge amounts of grapes left over from an excellent harvest.
12 Uvas at New Years

The tradition consists of eating a grape with each bell strike at midnight at New Years, December 31. If you’re a fast thinker, a wish may be made with each grape.

According to the tradition, eating these grapes leads to a year of prosperity and people always need hope at celebrations, especially one marking the end of one era, however ephemeral, and the beginning of another.

Typically, grocery stores double the price of uvas the week before New Years.

OTHER NEW YEARS TRADITIONS:
Those who want to find love in the new year wear red underwear. Those who want money wear yellow underwear.
Red and Yellow Panties at New Years

Latin Fever New Years » 2008

Will Gorges & Gilles Belanger present…
New Years 2007-2008, Dec 26th-Jan 1st.

New Years Vallarta

Plus 2 after hours events, The famous Splash Party on the Roof Top of Blue Chairs and of course the Famous New Years Eve Celebration at Oscars!

DJ’s Include: Cary Stringfellow, Paulo, Oscar Valesquez, Ramses, Stephen Grodin

Plus Christopher Ciccone hosting our first MADONNARAMMA party!

Weekend pass is $200.00 but does not include any after-hours events.

WEBSITE: http://www.willgorges.com/newyears.asp

Vallarta’s Fiesta de Fin de Año 2008

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.

2009/2010 Puerto Vallarta Olas Altas New Years Eve Street Party

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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