Shore Excursion in Puerto Vallarta

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Anyone ever taken The Unimog Outback Adventure?? I'm thinking about doing the excursion but.....I haven't read where anyone has taken it before :confused:

[aceinnw]

I found this on line, not my experience but his. I think it was written by a teenager. If it is the same as the one I went on in PV , he's right about much of it. Although I didn't go on the hike as my SO got bit by a tick when we got out to go, luckily it turned out to be nothing. It got so rough at one point the guy across from us had the lenses pop out of his glasses. You have to hang on to straps hanging from a bar, my arm hurt for a week afterwards.

 

Ohh one other thing, no bathrooms at all. Hope you like the jungle!

 

 

 

Unimog Outback

 

Pros:

4 wheel drive off roading in a Unimog

Free lunch, free beverages

Cool tour guide

The beach

The drinking game

 

Cons:

The drinking game

The 1.5 mile hike in the jungle

Lengthy drives on "paved" roads with wind blowing in my face.

The Unimog

The 1.5 mile hike in the jungle

 

I started out the day early. 9:15am start time for the Unimog

outback. 6 of us went. Nick, Sandy, Emily, Helen, and Tiffany

(brother, uncle, brother's girlfriend, brother's girlfriend's sister,

and cousin). We go out to place to get to our Unimogs.

 

Much to my disappointment, the Unimogs weren't what I expected.

They're suppose to be offroading Mercedes trucks. I was expecting

something like a nice hummer, but what I got was a military like

truck. Like those trucks that carry the soldiers in the back of the

truck. Remember Die Hard 2 and the truck those military dudes had to

ride in. One like that, except only the top was there cover. Front,

side, back. Nothing.

 

So it takes a while to get to the jungle from our boarding place.

Mexico is a very poor place, but hey if they're happy, that's fine.

But we drive through the many villages and towns and stuff and look at

the villages and the people and stuff. It was alright. We stop at

one town centre and then take off for the jungle.

 

Offroading is pretty tough. I felt a few times that we would flip

over, but it never did. Before boarding the Unimog we had to sign

this waver saying that we know certain risks, i.e. getting bitten by

insects and reptiles, the truck possibly flipping over. Stuff like

that. So we driving and we driving. The jungle is alright, but it

ain't incredibly exciting, but we offroading. The dusts that hits

your face sucks. Finally we stop somewhere in the jungle, and that's

the place where we start hiking.

 

If you guys didn't know, part of Predator was shot the jungles of

Puerto Vallarta. I was hoping to see him.

 

So after a beverage break, we go start on our hike through the damn

jungle. Now the hike wasn't really that bad. It was nice of them

having soda when we reached the end. It was tiring, yeah. But the

worse part of was the miles of cow poop and horse poop along the

trail. "I've never seen so much crap in my life" - Nick. I couldn't

look around in the jungle much cause I was too busy looking at where I

step. I had brand new shoes too. Got mud all over them. I avoided

all the big chunks of poop, but I know there's leftover poop stuck in

the sand and mud. Nasty.

 

After this hike, we head off to the beach to eat. Of course we have

to use the highway, whatever that is. Imagine sitting in an open air

truck going 60 mph for half an hour. It's nasty. No convertables for

me.

 

At the beach we get a barbeque. Some donkey meat, maybe. El burro.

After lunch, we go taunt the waves. My family is stupid so we go

taunt the waves in our shoes. The waves were nice and big. And of

course we're going to get wet. Good thing I was wearing short. Not

so good for my brother. Best part was when my cousin got hit by the

wave and fell into the water. Kicking water and dirt in our face.

She deserved it.

 

So here's a drinking game for you drunks out there. Anytime you say

"no" you have to take a shot. You shake your head no, you take a

shot. You wave your hand no. You take a shot. Simple game. Man.

You guys will be drunk. This is what we did on our way back to

civilization. Good thing my cousin took away the alcohol. She's only

12. Tequila is pretty nasty.

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Thank you so much :D I can see why there isn't much talk about this excursion :eek: I'm thinkin' I'm gonna look for some other excursion to take ;)

[aceinnw]

ohhh I also forgot to mention that there were armed guards watching over everyone while we were at the beach. The beach was absolutely beautiful. But that was about the only thing we enjoyed. Keep in mind my experience was about 5 years ago when I did a land vacation to PV for a week. Things might have changed.

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OOOOOOOOOOOOK :eek: Any recommendations for an excursion in PV :o

[aceinnw]

That is the only "excursion" we did in PV. There is a pirate ship dance/dinner night cruise that looked pretty neat. Saw it from a restaraunt I was at over looking the bay.

 

We were downtown and spent most of our time relaxing by the pool and going to the beach. Lots of vendors, but the will take no for an answer. Really great buys on silver jewelry (at least downtown). I did not go to the "resort" area which is where the cruise ships dock (except to take this nightmare of an excursion).