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By MandsandSteve
November 14th 2008

Cabo San Lucas

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Mexico cruise - 141108 054

We're getting a little behind with the blog updates - it's just hard to keep up-to-date with all the fun and activities cruising the Mexican Riviera. Hopefully everyone at home appreciates how tough this is on us. Well, cruise #1 has come to an end after the final stop in Cabo San Lucas. A beach resort town really, so after a quick parasail before breakfast (see pic) we headed off to the Marina to have a look around. Well actually, the plans were originally grander than that, but didn't last long (read on). It didn't start off well with locals everywhere [View Full Entry]

By Long Distance Laura
November 10th 2008

My week of kayaking heaven

North America » Mexico » Baja California Sur » La Paz

Our first beach on Isla Espiritu Santo

Hello!‏ Here I am reporting from hot, sunny Mexico. On arrival in La Paz just over a week ago, I actually wasn't very well, and had to spend a day in bed sweating off my mysterious illness - nothing life-threatening, luckily!‏ That evening, I met my kayaking group for our briefing and the next day we set off on the speed boat for Isla Espiritu Santo, which is a totally undeveloped, volcanic island 18 miles away from the seaside town of La Paz, on the Baja California peninsula. The plan was to cicumnavigate it in our kayaks, camping on a different [View Full Entry]

By Tiffany09
November 8th 2008

Los Cabos, Baja California Sur.

North America » Mexico » Baja California Sur » Cabo San Lucas

Los Cabos, Hotel Pueblo Bonito

Los Cabos, situados en el extremo sur de Baja California Sur, nos ha maravillado con sus inmensos tesoros turisticos y su variedad de escenarios que permiten obtener las mejores fotografias, llenas de color, magia y belleza.. [View Full Entry]

By Gramma Lolly
October 30th 2008

Acapulco

North America » Mexico » Baja California Sur

October 28, 9:30AM CT HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIELLE! We were able to call and wish Danielle a Happy Day. Woke to sunshine, high seas, wind and lots of rocking and rolling, WHOOOOEEEE, a definite E-ride ticket. Ship seems to list to port which is our side of ship, so a lot of walking uphill… Breakfast buffet line, on deck 10, had some water sloshing about. Not quite sure where it comes from???? We are supposed to visit HUATULCO today. But the seas may have something to say about that. We are supposed to arrive at noon. Today is our beach day and [View Full Entry]

By newhorizon
October 8th 2008

8.10.

North America » Mexico » Baja California Sur » La Paz

8.10. Die Welt ist ein Kaff! Jaja, den Satz gebe ich oefters von mir, aber wenn ich in La Paz eine Frau aus Berlin Prenzlauer Berg treffe werdet ihr mir wohl recht geben. In dem Hostel kam am Sonntag eine Gruppe von drei Reisenden an. Renato, Eike und Marc sind per Bus die Baja California heruntergereist. Am Montag abend wollen wir zusammen mit Roman aus der Schweiz ausgehen. Der anvisierte Club ist heute aber nur fuer Jugendliche geoeffnet. Gut, zurueck die Uferpromenade entlang und mal schauen was es noch so gibt. Aus einem der vorbeifahrenden Autos pfeifen und rufen uns fuenf [View Full Entry]

By newhorizon
October 6th 2008

In Mexico

North America » Mexico » Baja California Sur » La Paz

5.10. Wow! Ich wusste ja gar nicht wie spannend es ist "fremd" zu sein. Vom Flughafen in La Pâz habe ich mir mit zwei Belgierinnen ein Taxi in die Stadt geteilt. Dummerweise konnte ich meinen Gestgeber nicht erreichen da ich keine Telefonkarte hatte die man hier fuer die Telefonzellen braucht. Aber meines riesigen Spanischwortschatzes (ca. 10 Woerter), Haenden und Fuessen und dem Reisefuehrer habe ich schnell ein Hostel gefunden. Morgen werde ich mich mal nach einem Sprachkurs umsehen. So, die Internetzeit ist bald rum - bis die Tage!! Ach ja, zum abendessen gabs Oktopuss... [View Full Entry]

By 13jend
August 13th 2008

The Magic of Cabo San Lucas

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Myself and the Magic

Hey hey, I thought I would dedicate a blog to Cabo San Lucas...officially my favourite Port of Call on the Disney Magic's Mexican Riviera run. Yay! If you get the chance in your life to visit Cabo San Lucas...DO IT! It is the most beautiful city and deserves to have lots and lots of visitors. I have decided to take a week long holiday in Cabo San Lucas at some point in my life so I can see it properly. It is truly awesome. Beautiful beaches, hospitable Mexicans, and happy people walking around saying "Ola" to random strangers (OK! That was [View Full Entry]

Me, Katrina, Will, Sharon ...tendering to Cabo

By pearce1624
July 17th 2008

"I took the road less traveled by..."

North America » Mexico » Baja California Sur » Loreto

Baja BP and Kayaking 001
my belongings for 3 months

Hello all. In following a reliable tradition of procrastination, I am posting my pictures, thoughts, descriptions, and stories of my fabulous journey to Mexico from which I returned oh, 3 months ago. I spent the most amazing 3 months of my life in the southern half of Baja California, Mexico backpacking, kayaking, and sailing. I'll not bore you with insane details (which I very well could, because I carried a journal and my mediocre journaling skills led my entries to be mainly chronological summaries of our days), but instead, I'll attempt to paint a picture of something that really cannot be [View Full Entry]

By RobAndKrista
June 20th 2008

Photo Backlog from La Paz

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Big navy museum in San Diego, ex naval vessel

Hi all, here are some photos from my camera that I´ve been unable to upload until now, and some more from Rob´s camera. We are in La Paz for our 2nd night after a 5 hour bus ride from Loreto. We´ve decided to forego travelling 6 hours return to see Cabo San Lucas as it looks very touristy and full of high end hotels and golf courses - not quite on our budget and seems a bit cheesy. Tomorrow morning we catch a bus to the ferry terminal at 5am, ouch. The ferry leaves for Topolobampo on the mainland at 8am [View Full Entry]

By ShinerFamily
June 19th 2008

Worldmark - Coral Baja - San Jose Del Cabo

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Swim Up Bar
The boys loved the swim up bar - we had to cut them off and take away their card.

This is a post of our two trips to Cabo. The top section is from November 2004 and the bottom section is from October 2006 (WIP). [View Full Entry]

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