Los Cabos, Cabo San Lucas, San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico

 We have been vacationing at the tip of the Baja Peninsula for years.  We first came when our son was a baby and he began walking on the beaches of San Jose Del Cabo.  This area is home of my favorite tacos (baja style) and margaritas (on the rocks con sal).

Los Cabos or Cabo San Lucas refers to areas around the city or the city itself.  San Jose Del Cabo is closer to the airport and it is its own city now, but it started out as a sleepy little fishing village.  San Jose Del Cabo is famous for its Thursday night Art Walk where everyone comes out to see the local arts and crafts and to eat tamales.  The Art Galleries are open; it is your chance to view art for free and walk around the old town center 

with the old church

There is free parking surrounding the area.

In the old town area of San Jose Del Cabo during the Art Walk on Thursday nights.  Every year that we go, there are more and more people attending this event.  I recommend you go to Lateral restaurant for dinner and get your fill of the most delicious baja-style shrimp (camaron) and fish (pescado) tacos that you can imagine with a couple of Margaritas (or one if you are a light-weight) and then visit the Art Walk.

Now, the East Cape is being developed in a posh way.  This is the area that wraps around the tip to the east and moves up the inside of the Baja Peninsula and is directly on the Sea of Cortez.  On the other side of Los Cabos to the west moving up around the tip along the Pacific Ocean is also being developed and we stayed there pre-covid at Rancho San Lucas.  It is a lovely area with unreal wide beaches and killer surf and I mean killer.  Nice to watch but this area of the water is only for the whales and sea life unless you have a death wish.  You can watch the waves pound down for hours.  It sounds like thunder each time.

If you want predictable dry desert weather, then come to Cabo.  We usually rent a vehicle here so that we can visit one of our favourite beaches called Playa Los Cerritos and Barracuda Cantina, home of the freshly squeezed Passion Fruit Margaritas.  We used to find that renting a car was the most convenient way to go.  Prices for a shuttle roundtrip can be pricey from the airport so we always opted to rent.  Recently over the last few years, the car rental agencies have been getting scammier and I think we are done with them.  You can't pick up a car in Mexico without paying for the mandatory Mexican liability insurance and you are at the mercy of the car rental agencies and all of their bags of tricks.  We recently were just bent over and I am an experienced traveller.  They are only screwing themselves as we will in the future not rent but use Uber.

There are great grocery stores to buy groceries at.  There is a brand new La Comer but I would not recommend it as it is mucho pricey.  We usually stick to Walmart Supermercado, where the locals shop.  It is fairly easy to get around along this corridor.  Although traffic has increased tremendously.  This is a big city now.

The beaches are varied here.  Medano beach and East cape you can easily swim in without being unsafe.  Many of the others beaches are not swimming beaches.  Some people swim in the beaches of San Jose Del Cabo, but I don't.  I don't like waves crashing down on my head, so I stick to the sand and whale watch from the beach.

The Cabo area is wonderful and we will come back again and again.