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Acapulco MÉXICO'S TROPICAL PARADISE BY THE SEA

ACAPULCO, México's smart beach resort on the tropical Pacific, was used as a port before the Spanish Conquest. During the days of the Conquest great sailing boats from Manila brought to Acapulco shawls and jewelry and finery for the Grandees of New Spain. These Nao de China, or Chinese Galleon, once brought a Chinese princess sold in slavery by pirates. A Méxican gentleman purchased her at Acapulco (A-cah-pool-ko) and sent her to the city of Puebla, where a dress she designed for herself has become the national dress of México -The China Poblana, or the dress of the Chinese girl of Puebla. Today, Acapulco is México's most famed beach resort. A paved road winding through the states of Morales and Guerrero leads the traveler 282 miles southwest to this resort. Here there is bathing, and boating, In fantastic tropical surroundings. Exploring through the mountains region about the bay of Acapulco you stumble upon strange Indian villages.

Surrounding the bay are various resort hotels, ranging from the modest to the ultra-smart.

The fishing season for sailfish is from November to April, an item worth while mentioning because here (or so they claim) has been caught the biggest sailfish ever to bow before man and his rod and reel.

Here the climate and the vegetation and the animal life are tropical. Acapulco is the kind of place where a person with an eye for ease rather than for ambition could spend a happy and contented, but useless, life, busily beachcombing.

Here on the tropical Pacific is exotic Acapulco, a port in use before the Conquest of México.

There are beaches at Acapulco, designed by a fanciful nature for the bather's whims, be they expressed in calm or rough water. Sailfish dip in close to shore and the ambitious fisherman can satisfy here every ambiton he has ever entertained for truly exciting sport.