El Hotel Colorado

Barriles and beyond......gorgeous beaches, terrible roads

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March 15th 2007
Today we took a day trip to a nearby little village called La Ribera and then took a really bad road to a wonderful beach which is pretty much deserted and perhaps a "secret". Well, maybe not when one considers that the road to get there is washboard for a lot of miles. I am not even sure how many miles but it took about an hour to get there! But it really was worth it. We cannot imagine h ... read more

North America » Mexico » Baja California Sur

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more