Baja California Sur’s Busy Season: A Guide to Upcoming Festivals and Events
Now that we’ve all recovered from the long food- and drink-filled holiday season—known in México as the Guadalupe-Reyes Marathon—get ready to gear up for another series of seasonal festivals and events. This is the best time of the year to visit Todos Santos, since January and February are when the state’s only pueblo mágico hosts its annual art, film, and music festivals. La Paz is preparing for its for its 127th consecutive carnaval celebration, and for those interested in shedding extra holiday-padded pounds…there...
read moreSeems Like Old Times: Reunion Concert Evokes Cabo’s Golden Age of Live Music
Tuesday, January 21 will be a big night for long-time locals, as well as more recent arrivals curious about what Cabo San Lucas was like in its wilder and woollier days. That night, from 8 to 11 p.m., Brian Flynn, Lulu Small, and friends will stage a reunion concert and birthday bash at Puerto Paraiso on the Cabo San Lucas Marina. Or, as Flynn puts it: “Lets do it all over again like we did 20 years ago.” Flynn, of course, remains a fixture on the local nightlife scene. In addition to touring and performing with some of the...
read moreLos Cabos Hotels Welcome Lovers with Romantic Valentine’s Day–Friendly Packages and Promotions
There is a wonderfully romantic line in the song As Time Goes By, performed by pianist Dooley Wilson in the classic Bogart-Bergman film Casablanca: “The world will always welcome lovers…” Los Cabos has taken the spirit of this line to heart in the past two decades, augmenting the area’s natural beauty and spectacular Land’s End vistas with an abundance of pampering spas, candlelit wining and dining spots, and romantic seaside luxury resorts. Local lodgings, in particular, have fallen in love with lovers so...
read moreRocking in the New Year: A Preview of the 3rd Annual Todos Santos Music Festival
Hotel California and Peter Buck are the big names behind the Todos Santos Music Festival, which returns January 16-18 and 22–25, 2014. The annual event, founded three years ago by former R.E.M. guitarist Buck, has quickly become a fixture on the local entertainment calendar, drawing top-flight talent to the coastal pueblo mágico, and in the process raising money for youth-oriented charities supported by the Palapa Society of Todos Santos. “We are fortunate that such great musicians are willing to donate their time to join me in adding to the...
read moreLords of the Wind: Windsports Royalty Comes to Los Barriles for January Showdown
Baja California Sur’s highest-ranking official is its governor, but the state’s most exalted personage is the Lord of the Wind. This grandiose title is awarded each January in Los Barriles, when the world’s best windsurfers, kitesurfers, and stand-up paddle boarders convene for competitions to establish windsports royalty in the annual Lord of the Wind Showdown. The East Cape has long been a winter favorite of windsports enthusiasts, when the seasonal El Norte winds blow down the Sea of Cortes, creating ideal conditions for...
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