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San Blas, a carnival

This 5 March, the Port of San Blas, Riviera Nayarit, starts its carnival celebrations with the procession, the burning and reading of the will of temper, to continue over the next four days dance party advertising and entertainment, in the full spirit of the carnival.

The occasion provides the opportunity once again to enjoy one of the most beautiful and enigmatic of the Mexican Pacific, full of stories and anecdotes, marked by fates ranging from the ancient customs to the notes of the song Maná enshrining in popular tastes a world of ghosts, voices, memories, images of nature that can only be treated when contemp the ocean and the majestic panorama of the port making the revolt from the ancient fortress that was proud bastion of the English empire.

San Blas could not understand without that wonderful racket that goes beyond the atmosphere, the voices of its inhabitants, the unexpected madness of their birds, true cultural heritage and tourism in the region, celebrating the rictus of dawn, while childish one delivery to jogging, while the true celebration of life comes packed with a sea breeze, with the parsimonious set of waves, the slow walk of the old streets that suggest the paths of other times, other mornings, other carnival masks and loves fugitives.

impossible not to surrender to the charm of this town planned with crayons, since you can just turn to sea for a glimpse of the idyllic and intangible microcosm from which the Aztecs launched the perfect mercadológica epic journey to Tenochtitlan. San Blas

is timeless, arrested in a picture with no ending date for exploiting the splendor of the coast that effectively stain hands, senses, with an unusual green, bombastic, sometimes just a blur by patches fog or, more frequently, of smoke, while the screams of children remind us of the wonder of children's games in the evening.

San Blas is a land of festivity and adventure, marine cooking that tastes superb ceviche, in line with beer incomparable Pacific and the drinks timely hint of roots: glowing and painful, provocative and prickly, and souls router provocative dreams. And how can you not love, why not indulge in the celebration of the senses when the environment itself gives us no chance to forget that we are alive?

The story goes that in 1559, King Philip II began to implement a thorough plan that was developed with the greatest secrecy, and ordered the newly appointed viceroy of New Spain, Don Luis de Velasco, to send an expeditionary fleet Poniente5 Islands. Touched the Basque seaside Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, accompanied by the Augustinian friar Andrés de Urdaneta, who had declined the command, leave the port of Navidad on 21 or November 20, 1564, in San Pedro as a ship captain and four more vessels.

The North Equatorial Current in the Pacific Ocean and the constant winds to the west led almost directly to the English ships to Cebu in the Philippines, where they arrived in late April 1565. It was the beginning of a major commercial shipping company, the route of the Galleons, the Nao de China, whose impact transcended into multiple segments, including of course the cuisine, with the flow and exchange of products and its consequent influence on the definition of the kitchens.

History tells us that for almost 250 years Acapulco was the Pacific port that captured international trade of New Spain. Among other important ships arrived and sailed from Acapulco Nao of China (or Manila Galleon) and craft different nations.

However, during the War of Independence, Acapulco cut its trade flow as Morelos and his troops occupied the port in 1813. In response, San Blas became in the port more accessible to the Bajio and the center of the viceroyalty. From there they left the boats that carried Junipero Serra Franciscan and found the 21 missions in Alta California and one of the thousands of Baja California, between 1768 and 1782. Similarly

was a point of arrival of goods imported from Europe, South America and Asia. From there, mining and agricultural products out of Nueva Galicia, then Jalisco, bound for Sinaloa, Sonora and the two Californias: silver, snuff, wood, corn, blankets, sugar, textiles Tepic. The strategic importance of this port was such that the British opened a consulate in Tepic, back in 1823. San Blas exceeded for over 50 years as a major trading port Acapulco Pacific.

Today the image of this bonanza is a fleeting memory that runs like the wind, between the cracks of the old customs, the host of flavors, however, continued to rule the territory, and mixing of ingredients in French overseas the products of Mexican lands.

Chiles and rice, spices and herbs, kept the delights and fragrances of this idyllic land that today stands out in the national tourism landscape, adding to its fame not only with the fleeting memory of the heroes, but primarily with the work of a community that is developing a concept of tourism, putting its identity, its essence and its cuisine as props of a surprise that never ends.