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A private boat past Los Arcos to the road-free village of Yelapa, with a waterfall hike option.
A private boat tour from Puerto Vallarta visiting Los Arcos, the Yelapa waterfall, and the secluded Las Ánimas beach, reachable only by boat or on foot.
This private boat tour takes travelers to some of the best snorkeling and swimming spots on the south shore of Banderas Bay over roughly five to six hours. Real stops include Los Arcos National Marine Park, the Yelapa waterfall, and the secluded Las Ánimas beach — reachable only by boat or on foot, since no road reaches this stretch of coast. Along the way you'll swim and snorkel, with a stop for lunch in Yelapa at your own expense.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Departure by private boat from Puerto Vallarta.
A real jungle waterfall near the road-free village of Yelapa.
A secluded beach reachable only by boat or on foot.
A stop at the marine park's namesake rock arches en route.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private boat tour from Puerto Vallarta visiting Los Arcos, the Yelapa waterfall, and the secluded Las Ánimas beach, reachable only by boat or on foot. This private boat tour takes travelers to some of the best snorkeling and swimming spots on the south shore of Banderas Bay over roughly five to six hours. Real stops include Los Arcos National Marine Park, the Yelapa waterfall, and the secluded Las Ánimas beach — reachable only by boat or on foot, since no road reaches this stretch of coast. Along the way you'll swim and snorkel, with a stop for lunch in Yelapa at your own expense.
Yelapa's road-free status isn't a tourism talking point — it's a literal fact of the village's geography. No road connects it to Puerto Vallarta or anywhere else; the only way in or out is by boat, typically departing from Los Muertos Pier in Puerto Vallarta or from Boca de Tomatlán. Inside the village itself, the only transportation is quad bikes, motorbikes, or horses along cobblestone and concrete paths too narrow for a car.
The waterfall near the village — the one this tour's itinerary refers to simply as the Yelapa waterfall — is locally known as Cascada Cola de Caballo, or "Horsetail Falls," for the shape of the water as it drops. It sits roughly a 20-minute walk uphill from the beach, past murals and homes along the cobblestone streets, and cascades into a genuinely cold swimming hole that's become one of the village's best-known real attractions (Yelapa also has a second, less-visited waterfall further inland).
Los Arcos, passed earlier in the day, is a real federally protected marine park rather than just a scenic photo stop — the rock islets were first designated a flora and fauna refuge area in 1975 and reclassified as a Mexican National Marine Park in 1984. The formations themselves, a cluster of granite islets shaped by volcanic activity, erosion, and constant wave action over thousands of years, host a network of underwater tunnels and caves that draw tropical fish, eels, sea turtles, and nesting seabirds including pelicans and frigatebirds.
Las Ánimas, the tour's other real beach stop, shares the same road-free geography as Yelapa and Colomitos further south — reachable only by boat or on foot — which is the real, physical reason this entire stretch of Banderas Bay's south shore stays genuinely uncrowded rather than it being a marketing claim.
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