Yesterday Shaybo and I decided that we were going to hike to the top of El Faro, El Faro is the lighthouse that marks the entrance to the main harbor of Mazatlan. Si Bon is currently in the new marina harbor of Mazatlan which is about 5.5 Nautical Miles north of the old Mazatlan harbor, this was to be our first trip (by land) over to the old harbor. So we boarded the Sabalo Centro bus and rode it to the end of line. El Faro is one of the highest lighthouses in the world so we figured once we got to the general area we should be able to spot it....right? Wrong, although at over 500 feet tall, El Faro sits on top of a very high mountain and is not a 500 foot tower as we were expecting, but rather sits 500 feet above the ocean. Anyway after walking around for awhile and passing the entrance once or twice we finally were headed up the road to El Faro. The well maintained dirt path turned into some cliff hugging, unevenly spaced stairs about 2/3 of the way up and we trugged onward and upward, stopping occasionally to catch our breath while admiring the breathtaking views...(hard to catch your breath while it's being taken by the view...ha ha). Once at the top of El Faro we chatted with the Lighthouse keeper who works for three days straight then has six days off, then we snapped a few photos and headed back down. Not only did we get in an unbelievable workout but the views that we had during the entire climb can only be described as incredible.... and we were able to cross one more thing off our list of what we wanted to do while visiting the beautiful city of Mazatlan.