Baja California South
It was many years before the Baja California Peninsula, bounded by the United States to the north, by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the Sea of Cortés in the east, eventually appeared on both Mexico and the world’s tourist map.
A tour from north to south of its 1,300 km length, through its arid landscape and dry climate, is full of surprises. On the border lies Tijuana, a first-rate tourist resort that receives hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. Traditional attractions include its bullfights and racecourse, as well as Rosarito beach with its cliffs, ideal for diving and fishing, and the Port of Ensenada, which has gradually become the cultural capital of the state of Baja California.
The south reflects all the stages in the state’s history, ranging from the cave paintings in the Sierra de San Francisco produced by the hunter-gatherers and the Jesuit missions, such as those in San Javier and Loreto to the tourist complex at Los Cabos and the city of La Paz, an ideal spot for a day’s fishing, observing whales or organizing yacht, boat or kayak trips to a nearby islands with some of the most beautiful beaches in Mexico. |
