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Playa Norte

Tuxpan’s beach, 12km east of town, is a wide strip stretching 20km north from the Río Tuxpan’s mouth, though local holidaymakers tend to bunch up at its southern end. Expect a couple of seafood eateries, hawkers selling fruit, snacks and oysters on the half shell, a million cars under palapa awnings and oodles of sunbathing and splashing locals. Local buses marked ‘Playa’ (M$10, 25 minutes) leave regularly from the south side of Blvd Reyes Heroles by the river quay.

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