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sohailcoelho
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wow San Ignacio looks incredible. maybe I will do a little side trip there. Thanks for sharing all that. I appreciate it.
Quote: Originally posted by David K  | | Quote: Originally posted by sohailcoelho | This is all super helpful. thank you so much. dang what a crew here!
Definitely goin to cover up the tatts and class it up a bit. lol. I am a consultant in business, so super professional, but the exterior can look a
little rough and tumble.
I'm not flying cause I want my car down there for the 2.5 months I'll be there. so it's worth it for me.
Love all the city recos. will check them out and now will likely extend to 5 days going down just to check the whales and slow the whole damn thing
down.
Will take Hwy 5 on the way down and then Hwy 1 on the way back up as I'd like to spend some time in the wine region of Guadalupe.
keep the recos/advice coming. really appreciate this crew. Makes my solo adventure not feel so solo.  |
Wow, glad to see you come back to get more 'abuse' from us! LOL
Very happy that you will slow it down a bit!
My wife and I had a glorious trip to Cabo and back in 2012 and spent time in La Paz with Nomad amigo 'Baja Tripper' who showed us sites in the cape
region. We also visited Blanca and Shari out on the 'hook' of Baja, southwest and west from San Ignacio.
Of all our summer vacation trips to Baja California Sur, the July 2012 one was the finest we ever had. Here are my trip photos and details: http://vivabaja.com/712/
Feel free to ask questions. When you come to San Ignacio (halfway in miles from the border to Cabo) do take the side road into the town plaza (just 2
miles) the river crossing and the mission from the 1700s are both incredible. A wonderful motel is just past the mission (Hotel La Huerta) and is
inexpensive, too.
This San Ignacio oasis is surrounded by lava flows and harsh desert:
The mission of San Ignacio is pretty impressive, with four-foot-thick walls.
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sohailcoelho
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I'm going next week. Thurs/Friday leaving SD. I know, I wish I could wait for a vaccine - but I'm just going to be safe as I've been here in the SD. I
have friends in Cabo so will have people to hang with once I get down there. And I'll get tested once I'm there. Realities of the world right now.
| Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo | Glad to see you are still here, every now and then someone will ask a question, and disappear after their one and only post!
You didn't mention when you are planning your trip. I would recommend waiting until you have been vaccinated, and check into the what kind of patient
load the hospitals in Baja are dealing with, because things can change.
The trip will be so much more enjoyable when you can mix safely with people along the way, but sadly, that is not the case right now.
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David K
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Please post after you get to Cabo to tell us about the drive!
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sohailcoelho
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Totally will do.
So outside of these towns, any other towns or hotels worth stopping at: San Felipe, Mulegé, San Ignacio, Geurrero Negro, Todos Santos - anything
else?
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Hotel Mision in Catavina. Great hotel (ask for room in old part, new rooms are boring).
Great place for first night, make sure to arrive with a couple hours of daylight left, and go climb the rocks about 3 to 5 miles north hotel. Any
rock pile will do, great place to spend an afternoon scrambling on rock amongst the boojums
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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David K
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You will see things without trying! Baja has so much to give...
Here is just a sample...
San Felipe for fish tacos... go to the south end of the malecon (bayshore street).
Gonzaga Bay for a beautiful beach view (easiest access at Rancho Grande, south of Pemex and south side of runway).
The state border (just north of Guerrero Negro) has the famous 135 ft. Eagle Monument. You lose an hour going south, into Mountain Time Zone (Km. 220
[from Santa Rosalía]).
I showed you a bit of San Ignacio, just off the highway, you turn at the whale bones (Km. 73).
Santa Rosalía (Km. 0/ 195 from Loreto) has the steel prefab church designed by Gustave Eiffel in the 1880s.
Mulegé is known by some as the Hawaii of Baja... a river lined with palms (like San Ignacio) and with a mission founded in 1705 and built in 1766
with a view that is worth a walk behind the mission to see! Take the road signed for the mission beyond the south side of the bridge over the river
(Km. 134).
Bahía Concepción with its many beaches is some of the best of Baja to many! A fun cantina on the beach is at Playa Buenaventura (at Km. 93) with
great cheeseburgers!
Loreto (Km. 0) is the first town and mission in California, 1697.
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thebajarunner
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He said the plan is 5
| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | Hotel Mision in Catavina. Great hotel (ask for room in old part, new rooms are boring).
Great place for first night, make sure to arrive with a couple hours of daylight left, and go climb the rocks about 3 to 5 miles north hotel. Any
rock pile will do, great place to spend an afternoon scrambling on rock amongst the boojums |
Hard to find Catalina hotels on 5
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: Originally posted by thebajarunner | | Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | Hotel Mision in Catavina. Great hotel (ask for room in old part, new rooms are boring).
Great place for first night, make sure to arrive with a couple hours of daylight left, and go climb the rocks about 3 to 5 miles north hotel. Any
rock pile will do, great place to spend an afternoon scrambling on rock amongst the boojums |
Hard to find Catalina hotels on 5 |
5 is a bad route for first timers,... he will see nothing but bleak moonscape and turn around before he gets more than 4 hours south of the border.
One look at San Felipe and he will turn around and flee for home.
Every first-timer should do the windshield tour of TJ, baja pacific coast, ensenada and farm/ranch communities along 1, it is the culture and economic
engine of Baja. Takes an extra hour, and you see 10x more.
San Felipe (and adjacent post-apocalypse landscape) is the arm pit of Baja (Rosarito is the other armpit) and should not be anyone’s first exposure
to baja...
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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Your comment about San Felipe being the armpit of Baja made me LOL.
Jon
| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by thebajarunner | | Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | Hotel Mision in Catavina. Great hotel (ask for room in old part, new rooms are boring).
Great place for first night, make sure to arrive with a couple hours of daylight left, and go climb the rocks about 3 to 5 miles north hotel. Any
rock pile will do, great place to spend an afternoon scrambling on rock amongst the boojums |
Hard to find Catalina hotels on 5 |
5 is a bad route for first timers,... he will see nothing but bleak moonscape and turn around before he gets more than 4 hours south of the border.
One look at San Felipe and he will turn around and flee for home.
Every first-timer should do the windshield tour of TJ, baja pacific coast, ensenada and farm/ranch communities along 1, it is the culture and economic
engine of Baja. Takes an extra hour, and you see 10x more.
San Felipe (and adjacent post-apocalypse landscape) is the arm pit of Baja (Rosarito is the other armpit) and should not be anyone’s first exposure
to baja... |
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thebajarunner
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Gee. You copied my earlier post. I’m flattered
| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by thebajarunner | | Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | Hotel Mision in Catavina. Great hotel (ask for room in old part, new rooms are boring).
Great place for first night, make sure to arrive with a couple hours of daylight left, and go climb the rocks about 3 to 5 miles north hotel. Any
rock pile will do, great place to spend an afternoon scrambling on rock amongst the boojums |
Hard to find Catalina hotels on 5 |
5 is a bad route for first timers,... he will see nothing but bleak moonscape and turn around before he gets more than 4 hours south of the border.
One look at San Felipe and he will turn around and flee for home.
Every first-timer should do the windshield tour of TJ, baja pacific coast, ensenada and farm/ranch communities along 1, it is the culture and economic
engine of Baja. Takes an extra hour, and you see 10x more.
San Felipe (and adjacent post-apocalypse landscape) is the arm pit of Baja (Rosarito is the other armpit) and should not be anyone’s first exposure
to baja... |
But then again
Aren’t most of your posts scavenged from other sources?
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by thebajarunner | | Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | Hotel Mision in Catavina. Great hotel (ask for room in old part, new rooms are boring).
Great place for first night, make sure to arrive with a couple hours of daylight left, and go climb the rocks about 3 to 5 miles north hotel. Any
rock pile will do, great place to spend an afternoon scrambling on rock amongst the boojums |
Hard to find Catalina hotels on 5 |
5 is a bad route for first timers,... he will see nothing but bleak moonscape and turn around before he gets more than 4 hours south of the border.
One look at San Felipe and he will turn around and flee for home.
Every first-timer should do the windshield tour of TJ, baja pacific coast, ensenada and farm/ranch communities along 1, it is the culture and economic
engine of Baja. Takes an extra hour, and you see 10x more.
San Felipe (and adjacent post-apocalypse landscape) is the arm pit of Baja (Rosarito is the other armpit) and should not be anyone’s first exposure
to baja... |
His original post was for a 3 day trip to Cabo, not sight seeing. I was just recommending the fastest, safest route.
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sohailcoelho
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I hear you on 1. I definitely will do it - but I just may do it on the way back in a couple months. Because I also want to spend some time in the wine
country too. So that'll be the treat on the way back. I just want to get further south a bit faster and explore Mulegé and south. Thanks for the
advice tho. appreciate it.
| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by thebajarunner | | Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | Hotel Mision in Catavina. Great hotel (ask for room in old part, new rooms are boring).
Great place for first night, make sure to arrive with a couple hours of daylight left, and go climb the rocks about 3 to 5 miles north hotel. Any
rock pile will do, great place to spend an afternoon scrambling on rock amongst the boojums |
Hard to find Catalina hotels on 5 |
5 is a bad route for first timers,... he will see nothing but bleak moonscape and turn around before he gets more than 4 hours south of the border.
One look at San Felipe and he will turn around and flee for home.
Every first-timer should do the windshield tour of TJ, baja pacific coast, ensenada and farm/ranch communities along 1, it is the culture and economic
engine of Baja. Takes an extra hour, and you see 10x more.
San Felipe (and adjacent post-apocalypse landscape) is the arm pit of Baja (Rosarito is the other armpit) and should not be anyone’s first exposure
to baja... |
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Stop in Loreto for sure. The best town in Baja. Stay at La Mision hotel. It's right on the ocean and really nice. Get a room on the 3rd or 4th
floor with a balcony. The view is incredible. Great bar and restaurant. Craft beers on tap.
Walk down to the marina (2 mins from La Mision) and pay a panga to take you out to Isla Coronado. About $90 for your own boat. Turquoise color water
like the Caribbean.
Once in Cabo, at some point you should drive up to La Paz and check it out. Really fun city. Charter a boat and go see the islands. Beyond
beautiful.
[Edited on 2-14-2021 by JZ]
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Video with shots of Loreto, La Mision, Isla Coronado, islands at La Paz, etc. All the opening shots are around Loreto.
https://youtu.be/4VNTIhRa6q0
[Edited on 2-14-2021 by JZ]
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sohailcoelho
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whoa. this looks incredible. Loreto and the island. and that vid you posted is wild. thanks for this. I will for sure check it out.
| Quote: Originally posted by JZ | Stop in Loreto for sure. The best town in Baja. Stay at LA Mision hotel. It's right on the ocean and really nice. Get a room on the 3rd or 4th
floor with a balcony. The view is incredible. Great bar and restaurant. Craft beers on tap.
Walk down to the marina (2 mins from LA Mision) and pay a panga to take you out to Isla Coronado. About $90 for your own boat. Turquoise color water
like the Caribbean.
Once in Cabo, at some point you should drive up to LA Paz and check it out. Really fun city. Charter a boat and go see the island. Beyond
beautiful.
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 |
San Felipe (and adjacent post-apocalypse landscape) is the arm pit of Baja (Rosarito is the other armpit) and should not be anyone’s first exposure
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True. People are taking route 5 for easy driving but Hwy 1 is more scenic. Route 5 makes less sense for those who are already in San Diego. If going
through San Ysidro, make sure you cross before 3 pm.
Also, make it 4 days, not 3. Less stressful this way. You are going for 2.5 months anyway. Make it 5 days if planning substantial detours.
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sohailcoelho
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Anyone have recos on hotels in Mulegé?
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mtgoat666
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“Recos.” Sounds like something my teenager would say or write. I find it hard to reply to anyone that uses such silly shorthand
Woke!
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In Mulegé we always stay at Hotel Sernidad south of town a bit. They have a restaurant and bar too! All excellent!
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I like La Hacienda, right down town by the central plaza. It is a taste of an older Mexico, and very reasonable! It, and others are in this post
from a while back; http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=95332&got...
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