Colima
Get in
By plane
- 1 Colima Airport (CLQ IATA) (15km north, outside the city). From Mexico City by AeroMar or from Tijuana by Volaris. To get to the downtown your only option is a taxi, which will cost US$20.
You could also fly to Guadalajara (GDL IATA), which is Mexico's second largest city, and where there are more flight options. From there you could take a bus (US$25), which will take 3 hours to get to Colima bus station and from there to the down town a cab will charge you US$2-3.
Get around
See
Parque de la Piedra Lisa. This park offers a science museum, a playground and several recreational areas, the main attraction is a volcanic stone called la piedra lisa that has the form of a slide and the legend says that once you slide on it you will always come back. The stone comes from the volcano 32 kilometers away from the city, the park was built around this monolithic slide rock.
- 1 Regional History Museum of Colima (Museo Regional de Historia de Colima), Portal Morelos 1.
- Pinacoteca de la Universidad
- Parque regional
- Catedral de Colima
- Jardín Libertad
- Jardín Nuñez
Do
Buy
Eat
Drink
Sleep
- Hacienda del Gobernador (downtown). The ancient house of the governor Gildardo Gómez is now transformed into this boutique hotel. It has an excellent restaurant and a large, varied wine cellar.
You can also sleep downtown in the Hotel Ceballos (Best Western) or Hotel America.
Just out of the downtown you find the hotel Maria Isabel and at the edge of town is a Fiesta Inn.