Recently featured as one of the new “off the grid” destinations of Mexico’s best seaside towns by multiple publications, it seems that the word is getting out about San Pancho. Here is the article recently featured by Coastal Living Magazine, March 2017 issue.
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CHILL OUT IN SAN PANCHO | Coastal Living Magazine March 2017
If you’ve been to Sayulita to surf and do yoga and drink cold-press juices (not that there’s anything wrong with any of that), here is your escape off the hipster grid and into old-school, New Age, and largely undiscovered Nayarit escapism on Mexico’s Pacific shore. Locals know it as San Pancho, although this sleepy, cobblestoned fishing village is officially named for its patron saint, San Francisco. Just a ten minute drive North of Sayulita, it feels much farther away. And with crimson sunsets the standard, it’s said that everything in town is either arranged before or after the sky’s big show of the day.
Although San Pancho has a lovely beach edged by jungle, it also has a fairly serious undertow, which means the pleasures have stayed simpler (no big water-sports businesses) and embody stress-free living. The yoga here is just developed enough – Yoga San Pancho offers a small but broad menu of classes, from Vinyasa and Hatha flow to Feldenkrais and Pilates, and holds beach yoga under the palm trees near the san. A tiny hotel in town offers massage, acupressure, and reflexology to its guests. Fresh, locally caught seafood plus plentiful fruit make eating out a healthy pursuit without preciousness. There’s even a hometown drink, Capomo, which is derived from brewing the locally grown Maya nut and which is said to be like coffee without the caffeine, a calm-booster miles away from a prescription pad. Which could be said for the effect of San Pancho.
Coastal Living Magazine | Wanderlust Real Estate + Development
A delightful coastal community, a short drive from the sky-scraping, timeshare hotels that line the Puerto Vallarta coastline, lies San Francisco (known locally as San Pancho) in the Riviera Nayarit, Mexico. A short ten-minute drive from lively Sayulita and a 45-minute drive from the Puerto Vallarta airport, san Pancho is the tranquil escape that we’ve all been looking for.
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San Pancho has an old world charm and a community of artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and those who have chose to spend their winters here, soaking up the sun and the culture who make up this special place. They ride their bikes or walk everywhere they go. They stroll the beach at sunrise and watch baby turtles protected by the local turtle sanctuary make their way to their native ocean. They chat with friends at the local coffee shops over local coffee farmer’s lattes, homemade banana bread and savory empanadas.
On any given night, you can expect to hear live music coming from travelers from Argentina, Mexico city or Guadalajara softly strumming guitars and ringing acoustic to the enchanted visitors dining al fresco. The town hums with artists young and old, children running freely, young surfers running barefoot to catch the end of the day, and those with wanderlust strolling the promedade. One can hear multiple languages being spoken on the streets and the businesses are run by people from all over the world. This is not just your average Mexican village, this is melting pot of cultures who all seem to have one thing in common… a desire to savor life and to slow it down a bit.
Before the arrival of the Spanish, and still somewhat today, the coast of San Pancho and Sayulita and nearby mountainous region known as the 
Entreamigos offers more than 600 classes and workshops in the facility, most of them free of charge. The non-profit organization has a variety of programs that are intended to bridge cultural and economic differences with the intention of increasing educational opportunities, environmental stewardship and collective community responsibility. They offer scholarships to the local kids and some of the successful entrepreneurs in San Pancho are results of that very scholarship program.
Another spectacular feature in San Pancho is the formation of Circo de Niños (Kid’s circus) which was founded in 2011 by Cirque de Soleil’s founding directors, Gilles Ste. Croix and Monique Voyer. Initially conceived as a fundraising idea for Entreamigos, Gilles Ste. Croix offered to oversee a presentation involving about 40 children incorporating elements of his famous Montreal troupe. By autumn 2014, Cirque de Soleil had donated equipment and the Circo de los Niños began rehearsing in the Entreamigos space. An outdoor performance of ¡Órale! was given at the Plaza de San Francisco and the Mayan Palace in the Punta de Mita resort. In March 2015, Circo de los Niños was granted the use of one of the government warehouses on the same property as Entreamigos and performed a four night run of their first Cirque du Soleil like performance before audiences of about 250. The circus performance continues today with tickets selling out immediately and is an absolute marvel to witness. If one has ever seen a Cirque du Soleil show, this children’s circus has the music, the lights, the story, the acrobatics, and the magic of a typical show in Vegas, but with children of the San Pancho community who train all year to perform for their families and tourists alike.
The entire state of Nayarit is located south of the 
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