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Baja California Travel Guide

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A peninsula extending into the Pacific Ocean from the south end of California, Baja California provides some of Mexico's most dramatic seascapes. Camping is plentiful, and surfing and sailing are great pursuits. The peninsula also provides south-of-the-border fun for youthful miscreants from the USA.

Contents

States

Cities

Other destinations

  • Bahia Concepcion
  • Petroglyphs
  • Missions
  • Islands

Road Trips (routes)

  • General Baja Highway Considerations
  • Tijuana - Mexicali (Mex-2)
  • Tijuana - Cabo San Lucas (Mex-1)
  • Mexicali - San Felipe (Mex-5)
  • Ensenada - Crucero de Trinidad (Mex-3)

Understand

Much of Baja's coastline is composed of beautiful beaches. Into A Desert Place is non-fiction account of a walking circumnavigation of Baja.

Talk

Get in

By Car

Border Crossings

Get around

By boat

  • AdventureSmith Baja Cruises, [1]. A California based tour operator specializing in expedition cruises and wilderness adventures.

See

Do

The SCORE Baja 500 and Baja 1000 off-road races explore some of the more remote regions of the peninsula and attract participants and tourists from Mexico and the US.

Eat

Baja is famous for fish tacos; there is some disagreement about whether they were "invented" in San Felipe or Ensenada - try both and make up your own mind!

Mexicali's Chinese restaurants are well-known.

Drink

Beer is often sold by the case, from local distributors. Keep the empties - the deposit makes up a large portion of the price, and the bottles are not just recycled - they're washed out and reused!

The Tecate brewery is located its namesake city, in the mountains between Tijuana and Ensenada.

Locals distill their own tequilas from the blue agave cactus. One common drink is Tequila and Sangrita (not Sangria), a spiced fruit punch drunk in shots.

The Santo Thomas region south of Ensenada is known for its wineries.

Get out

Ferries are available from La Paz to mainland Mexico.

Stay safe

Scofflaws - gringos getting drunk, using drugs or visiting prostitutes - are the most likely to experience Mexico's legal system. Most laws in Baja, tho less frequently enforced, carry more severe penalties than they do in the United States.

Banditos are more urban legend than reality, though there are occasional reports of robberies on remote highways.

Drug Dealers, mostly international, use the remote areas of Baja for operations; most tourists are unlikely to encounter them.

Nude (and for women, topless) sunbathing is illegal in Mexico - while you often will get away with it on remote beaches, many of the locals strongly disapprove, and there are reports of large fines.

The Water in restaurants is generally bottled, purified. Do not drink tap water.

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