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Mexico Celebrates Whale Season With Mammoth Happy Hour

Edited by Sarah Wilman

January and February is whale watching season. Every year between December and March humpbacked whales travel to the Bay of Banderas, thirty miles south of Puerto Vallarta, to have their babies.

To celebrate, Verana, a hotel atop Yelapa, is breaking out the top shelf tequila. Names such as Jose Cuervo's Reserva de la Familia (each bottle is numbered and dated) and Don Eduardo Anejo (aged in Jack Daniel's barrels) will be standing by for nightly tastings at the bar. There is tequila-spiked sauce on the dinner menu, tequila in the facial treatments at the spa and of course, tequila in the custom cocktails.

In the haze of all this tequila soaked excitement it the whales might get forgotten. Fortunately, from anywhere on the Verana property it is easy to spy a pod of the gracious mammals, as they cavort in the Bay of Banderas below. Boat trips run out into the bay and alongside the whales there have been sightings of dolphins, manta rays and sea turtles.

For more information see:
http://www.verana.com

For even more reasons to visit Mexico during the winter: http://www.travellady.com/Issues/Issue62/62mexicoescapes.htm

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