After leaving the coast and heading inland, we stayed at a Bed and Breakfast in Comala, a small town near the city of Colima, for four nights. We chose this town because it was about halfway between the coast and Guadalajara, not because it is much of a tourist town! However, the area is definitely making an effort to draw more tourists, while at the same time it was interesting to hang out in a more typically "Mexican" town for a little while. There are also two volcanoes near Comala, one of which is still active and erupts every few years (although this is apparently not a catastrophic event!). You can't get very close to the actual volcanoes (well, you can actually hike close to the higher, inactive one), so we drove around the surrounding countryside, which was very, very pretty, for some good views from the car. We also spent a couple of hours having a picnic lunch and paddling a boat around a small lake, and in the late afternoons we would sit in the town's main plaza, eating appetizers, drinking beers and ponche (a local alcoholic drink that was sold everywhere), and listening to mariachi bands. Which was pretty cool.
