A huge water tank is behind barbed wire fence at the top of the hill.

A few niche alters have been constructed into the walls.

Morning glories do their best to soften the concertina wire roll atop this fence.

We found this private tram from the top of the hill down to the level where cars can drive. This way people who live up here can drive up to the tram, load their groceries and other heavy stuff into the tram car to ride them up the hill.

Here is the panorama from left to right from the tram platform.

This abode next the the tram platform (to our right) is under construction with seemingly no lack of money being poured into it including a blue and white tiled pool. And what a view!

From here we head down the stairs next to the tramway and then over to the right.

This part of the city is one of contrasts from the buildings to the people.

We wondered what the slightly bedraggled white tower was.  It turns out that it's a '50s style hotel: Hotel Suites La Siesta. It looks a little more upscale when you see the fancy archway and valet service at its base.

We liked seeing the various outside places that people had arranged for themselves. There are many remnants of formerly fancy places.

This restaurant had a bird theme going with all its metal rooster sculptures and two Spanish-speaking parrots to attract customers. One of their sinks is made from a real giant blue clam shell. (We saw these on our dive in Cairns, Australia earlier this year.) Their red tile grilling area looks inviting.

We'd never seen a VW bug set up as a touring vehicle with a horseshoe-shaped bench seat in the back.

We are now back at street level on the Malecón and find some rarely seen objects in the U.S.--phone booths.

This statue of the naked boy on a sea horse was damaged during a storm a few years ago, but has been rebuilt due to popular demand.

We see the crown church again and now the street performers have set up shop. This guy was dressed as the guy with the squid head in one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

The Malecón continues over a river. Looking back there are various sail-like canvas structures. We like this egret with the yellow feet, but unlike our Florida snowy egret, it also has yellow up the backs of its legs.

The sand colored people stay still until someone approaches and then they move or talk, which often startles them. 

And speaking of being startled, people sitting on the bench jumped up when they heard a big dog barking over their heads.
I guess they didn't understand that when it barked, "Roof, roof!" that it was speaking English.

This shop name seemed appropriate...

We didn't understand the the violin playing mermaid standing atop a TV. The other statue is of San Pascual Bailon, who is the patron saint of the cooks, (El Santo Patrono de los Cocineros.) stands adjacent to a section with a bunch of restaurants.

Merchants display their wares all along Malecón and the garden apartments are nearby.  We need to get back to the ship for sail away at 1:30, so we walked inland a couple of blocks and spy our bus. It's clearly labeled as the one going to Walmart. Yes, there is one right across the street from the dock.

There is a lovely flower mart at the port bus stop (before Walmart). Marigolds are traditional flowers for Day of the Dead, so they are ready for that and other fall flower needs.

In the port area there is an aviary with beautiful parrots and other birds. The weird English translation made us smile.

We board the ship, have lunch and take some sail away photos...  We'll stop here again--it's our first port in second leg of this cruise after San Diego.

One of the buildings near the harbor had a lovely green roof.

Hasta luego, Puerto Vallarta. We'll be back soon.