Monia
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Questions for the experts.
First of all thank you for the great information you provide to us novices to Baja. The last few trips we've made down south have been great and all
from info I took off your recommendations, so be proud of your board (even when you are bickering) because, at least for me, it has been a great place
to come, learn, enjoy, laugh (kinda like Baja)!
I would like some suggestions as to what would be the best way for my daughter (15) and I to go see the whales at Scammons the last week in March. We
had plans to take the RV to Guerrero Negro and do it that way but my husband started a new job and can't go. Some of the tours I've found are sooo
expensive. Are there any inexpensive ones.Are there any air charters? We live in close to San Diego border. I would appreciate your help. Thanks
again.
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bajajudy
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Are you looking for a tour from San Diego? If not, drive or take the bus to Guerrero Negro. You can make a reservation for the actual whale
watching before you leave. If you are planning a weekend trip, I would advise also making room ressies. If your dates fall within Semana
Santa....forget it!
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Sharksbaja
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Semana Santa
Is the holiday always on the same dates? Quando esta? Gracias, Sharks
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Bob and Susan
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Listen to Ted Donovan's radio show tape at:
http://www.worldtalkradio.com/show.asp?sid=126
Lots of good info on whales....
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Anonymous
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Semana Santa is Holy Week...it is the week leading up to Easter...between Palm Sunday and Easter, so it obviously isn't always the same date but it is
always that week!!!
elizabeth
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fdt
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Kuyima
Monia, if you go to San Ignacio, you can camp with kuyima, we are going on 3/22-24 myself, Mrs.ferna and 3 kids.
http://kuyima.com/kuyima.html
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marla
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Did you like being with Kuyima? Should we stay in the cabanas there or just go back to town??
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a
speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David
Thoreau
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rpleger
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Stay over it's a lot more fun.
Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
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marla
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Most of the whale-watching tours from the U.S. are quite costly. It is very easy to drive to Guerrero Negro in a passenger car, it is paved road all
the way. You would want to break the trip up by staying overnight, I usually like to stay at Old Mill in San Quintin. Comfortable rooms and not
expensive. When you get to GN, stay at the Malarrimo cabanas and then go on a whale watch with them the next day. It is very convenient having the
cabanas, restaurant and whale watching company right there, they will take you out to the lagoon. Just google malarrimo and whale watch and you will
find their web site. Make sure to make a reservation. If you don't want to drive without another driver and you can't talk a friend into going, you
can take a luxury bus from Tijuana, if you get a first-class luxury bus they are really nice, even have videos to watch and some have bathrooms. The
bus would drop you off at the station in GN then you could take a cab or walk to Malarrimo it is not that far. Another option is to fly to Loreto
(roundtrip right now from LAX is $259) and then take a whale watch day trip out to Magdalena Bay. You dont have to worry about Semana Santa this year
it starts April 10.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a
speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David
Thoreau
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David K
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Malarrimo is at http://www.malarrimo.com (tours, motel, RV park, Restaurant)
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John M
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Malarrimo in David K's link is where we took the whale watching trip from. We were a little late in season, mid-April, and there was plenty of room on
the whale watching boats both days we were around there. No reservations were needed at that time.
We found the restaurant really pricey! The bar even more so, (again referring to the place in the link).
We got in late, stayed in what they called a campground. It was a bunch of RV sites right alongside one another, almost no space between save for a
few feet. We were tent camping and I suppose had we been in an RV we would have thought differently, or at least it wouldn't have mattered so much.
Again, the whale trip out of that place was exceptional.
John M.
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