Travel Eye on Los Cabos (Mexico)

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Overview :

At the southern-most tip of the Baja California peninsula, where the warm waters of the Sea of Cortez collide with the wild Pacific, is an area of striking beauty and one of Mexico's top resort destinations. Surrounded by a vast cactus desert and ochre-coloured mountains, the azure waters offer diving, sailing and swimming and the area is a world-renowned mecca for sport fishing and surfing.

Los Cabos is an area made up of the two resort towns of San José del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas, sitting at either end of an 18-mile (29km) stretch of exquisite beaches sprinkled with exclusive luxury resorts and championship golf courses. San José del Cabo is the older and more traditional of the two resorts with the unhurried pace of a colonial Mexican village.

Cabo San Lucas started as a simple fishing village and is now one of the favourite beach resorts of the elite, international tourist offering high quality services and an energetic nightlife. Just offshore is the area's landmark and an impressive natural wonder, Los Arcos (The Arches), a wave-sculpted rock formation.

Inland from the beaches, the landscape is sandy desert, brush, cactus and rugged hills rising to the majestic Laguna Mountains, where alpine valleys support oaks and pine trees a mile above the ocean. The few human inhabitants in scattered villages and ranchos share the land with lizards, rattlesnakes, coyotes, deer and a variety of birds and other desert wildlife.

The Los Cabos climate ranges from tropical near the beach to arid inland and alpine in the mountains. Weather is generally warm and dry, and especially mild in the winter. However, summers are hot and often humid, with hurricanes and tropical storms sometimes a threat, and winter frosts are not unusual at higher elevations.

Locality:

Los Cabos is situated at the southern-most tip of the Baja California peninsula and is divided politically into two Mexican states. The northern state is called Baja California and the southern state is Baja California Sur .

Entertainment/Facilities/Attractions/Things to do:

Restaurants are everywhere. They change with the seasons, and two new ones seem to pop up for every old one that disappears. Taco stands and open-air palapas with seafood grills are common, but the variety of cuisines and settings is endless.

Some are as fancy and expensive as you'll find anywhere. But, it is still possible to stuff yourself with a fresh seafood dinner for less than ten bucks, including excellent Mexican beer and tip. "Catch of the day" might be dorado, huachinango, cabrillo, dogfish, parrotfish, halibut, sierra, any of several kinds of tuna, or other mariscos whose names are less familiar.

Popular attractions include:

Baja by Sea Kayak - Paddling adventures with photos and maps.

Cruise the Sea of Cortez - cruising, sailing and diving in the Sea of Cortez.

Cruising Mexico - sailing the Sea of Cortez.

Golf is a popular daytime activity. Los Cabos boasts several beautiful golf courses , including designs by Roy Dye, Trent Jones and Jack Nicklaus.

Hikers take trips of several hours to several days into the highland peaks and valleys of the nearby mountains, the Sierra de la Laguna.

Whale petting is a popular tourist pastime. North of San Lucas on the Pacific side, Baja has several protected lagoons where whalers once killed whales by the thousands.