How to Experience Signature Los Cabos Activities at Deeply Discounted Prices
The slow season (summer and early autumn) in Los Cabos has its advantages, particularly for those interested in the region’s abundance of exciting outdoor adventures. Water temperatures are ideal, with peak visibility for snorkeling and diving; smaller tour groups translate to more personal attention; and of course rates are often a bit more budget friendly than they are during the busy winter months. Or, for those participating in Los Cabos Guide’s prepaid voucher discount program, A LOT more budget friendly. The area’s most comprehensive...
read moreA Brief History of Los Cabos: 30 Million Years at Land’s End
The granite rock formations that extend to Land End in Cabo San Lucas have, over time, become much more than mere boundary markers or evocatively shaped oddities. The jutting promontory is a living symbol of the city, a sort of cinematic shorthand; and to see so much as a silhouette is to know exactly where you are in the world. El Arco, in particular, is now as symbolically synonymous with Cabo San Lucas as White Cliffs with Dover or the Rock with Gibraltar. The naturally formed Arch bounded by two immense bodies of water–the Sea of Cortés...
read moreA Brief History of Los Cabos, Part II: The Galleon Trade and the Golden Age of Piracy
For thousands of years, the only contact the Pericú—the original inhabitants of the southernmost part of Baja California Sur—had with the outside world were occasional parlays or skirmishes with their territorial neighbors, the Guaycura, and perhaps, on waterborne excursions along the coast and to islands near La Paz, rare encounters with other hunting and gathering tribes of the Baja California peninsula. That all changed in 1534, when a Spanish ship sailed into the Bay of La Paz. The ship was commissioned by Hernán Cortés, the man who led...
read moreNational Tequila Day 2015
July 24th, is National Tequila Day. Choose your favorite location in Los Cabos to sample some favorite or new tequila brands. Cabo Wabo Cantina The Cabo Wabo Cantina has generated enormous curiosity from the day it opened. At first, it was because of the time and place. In 1990, Cabo San Lucas was pretty small for such an elaborate nightclub. Later, when this town at the tip of Baja California grew into the prominent vacation destination that it is today, it seemed as if I had looked into a crystal ball. Located at Lazaro Cardenas and...
read moreEl Faro Viejo celebrates 110 years since first use.
This past May 5th, 2015 was the 110th anniversary of the first use of the Cabo San Lucas Lighthouse at Cabo Falso. Yenekamu A. C. invited children from the local schools, so the kids could see (some for the first time) this historic monument that belongs to them and sing the Mexican national anthem. Also present were local community leaders including Municipal President Tony Agundez, Professor Domingo Saiza representing Yenekamu AC, and Heriberto Malcampo from Pueblo Bonito Group. Photography courtesy Hassen Salum © 2015 • All rights...
read moreProbable World Record Dorado
A few days ago a group of guys came into the office after their days’ fishing aboard Pisces 60 ft. Hatteras Shambala they were excited and sunburnt and eager to get some Pisces shirts. We asked the group what they had caught and were stunned when 33 year old Brian Lindsey, a physician from Indianola, Mississippi , said that he had landed a 102 lb. dorado. We thought, well he’s probably a first timer and confused, he probably got a marlin. So we asked what color his fish was to which he replied “yellow”, intrigued, we asked to see pictures....
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