Acapulco High Cliff Divers in La Quebrada, Tour Excursion

Highlights of the Tour:

• Since 1934, the Quebrada Cliff Divers have thrilled audiences with death-defying diving demonstrations. Like Olympians competing for a gold medal, the divers leap from a high platform and plummet down, down, down into a pool of water, leaving only the slightest of splashes.

Included in the Tour:

• Admission, Drinks, a freezer conveniently provided of  icy cold purified bottled water on board!

Not included:

 The jet-setters who gathered here in the 1960s and '70s have long been replaced by package-deal tourists. The world-famous thoroughfare, Avenida Costera Miguel Aleman, is now a gantlet of theme restaurants and shopping malls.

Although the beaches are as inviting as ever, Acapulco is no longer the preferred destination for hipsters, dignitaries and movie stars. But it continues to flaunt the greatest dives on Earth.

Since 1934, the Quebrada Cliff Divers have thrilled audiences with death-defying diving demonstrations. Like Olympians competing for a gold medal, the divers leap from a high platform and plummet down, down, down into a pool of water, leaving only the slightest of splashes.

What makes these cliff divers special, however, is their diving platform. It's a rocky ledge atop a cliff. And the “pool” is a channel of shallow seawater, the depth of which changes with each swell.

I first saw the cliff divers (Los Clavadistas) more than three decades ago on ABC's “Wide World of Sports.” Eyes wide, mouth open, I gawked at the TV screen while the Mexican divers laept one by one into a rocky chasm.

Back then, Los Clavadistas seemed as brash and exotic as Acapulco itself. Thirty years later, having finally gotten a chance to see the divers in person, I realize how brash they really are.

The first diver strutted through the crowd of spectators positioned on a low cliff. Clad in a Speedo, he walked down the steps, swam across the 22-foot-wide canal and emerged at the base of the opposing 110-foot-high cliff. Jamming his bare feet into crevices and clinging to rocky overhangs, he scaled the rocky wall with the dexterity of an experienced rock climber.

You can also do this tour in a collective manner give me a call or send me an e-mail and we will get to an agreement!