A Fresh Perspective on Travel Every Day
Loretois a delightful, lesser-known coastal town inBaja California Sur, featuring remarkably clear waters, dolphin sightings, and beach clambakes. Situated only a 90-minute flight fromLos Angeles, Loreto has emerged as a retreat for retired snowbirds and international visitors, as well as a notable destination for backpackers and an occasional cruise ship stop.
“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.