Top 15 Must-Do Activities in Los Cabos, Mexico
At the southern tip of Baja California Sur, where the Pacific Ocean converges with the Sea of Cortez, lies Los Cabos, a burgeoning tourist destination that has begun to gain global recognition.
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At the southern tip of Baja California Sur, where the Pacific Ocean converges with the Sea of Cortez, lies Los Cabos, a burgeoning tourist destination that has begun to gain global recognition.
Setting off from a dock in la Bahía de La Paz, the capital of Baja California Sur, the boat slows as the first whale shark of the day comes into view. Before picking up speed again, the true rarity appears: a humpback whale. ‘Welcome to the Sea of Cortez,’ said Javier Olachea, a wildlife guide with 25 years of experience for The Cortez Club, an eco-tour operator.
“The landscape looks like nothing,” says our guide Victor as we drive from the airport to Loreto Baja California Sur, “but there are owls and woodpeckers in those cactus, and big horn sheep, grey foxes, mule deer, raccoons and mountain lions in the arroyos, the valleys.” The green and gold mounded hills studded with lanky cardon cactus, copal bushes and prickly chain link cholla seem as static as a western movie set to my untrained eyes. The town of Loreto, and the surrounding towns of Baja California Sur, have their own surprises and I was more than ready to savor them all.