Where's the best sightseeing in and around Los Cabos - La Paz, Mexico?
Ana Maria Carranza - Diamante Associates
There are great cave paintings between La Paz and La Ventana (a small village about 40 minutes south of La Paz). There are waterfalls between Los Barriles and San Jose where you can do zip lining near the waterfalls.
You can go scuba diving or snorkeling in the Cabo Pulmo area.
Surfing is available in the Todos Santos and Ceritos area.
The most beautiful beach would be Balandra in La Paz.
... There are great cave paintings between La Paz and La Ventana (a small village about 40 minutes south of La Paz). There are waterfalls between Los Barriles and San Jose where you can do zip lining near the waterfalls.
You can go scuba diving or snorkeling in the Cabo Pulmo area.
Surfing is available in the Todos Santos and Ceritos area.
The most beautiful beach would be Balandra in La Paz.
Definitely a “must” for sightseeing is Isla Espiritu Santo, which is an island that was purchased by some very wealthy private people and donated to UNESCO so it is now a protected zone in which nobody can build or do any sort of development. It’s beautiful. A company called Fun Baja would take you there and you could actually camp on the island for three days to one week.
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You can also go and see whale sharks in La Paz near the Mogote, which is a spit of land that is out in the Bay of La Paz. It is not quite an island but it is connected near Centenario and is how you would access Mogote by land. There is a ferry on the malecon in La Paz that would take you over to the Mogote. You will often see dolphins there as well. I was out there one time on a little Seadoo and we had about thirty dolphins swim with us for about an hour. It’s really cool!
Another nice thing to do in La Paz would be to rent SUPs (stand up paddleboards). There is a place called Harker where they rent SUPs. You can then go out on the SUPs on the Bay of La Paz and see the dolphins as well. Stand up paddle boarding is awesome to do here in La Ventana and La Paz because the water is so still because we don’t have the waves that you would get in Todos Santos, Cabo, San Jose, or even Los Barriles. I went paddle boarding on La Ventana Bay the other day and saw a fever of giant rays. There was a fever of little baby ones swimming around and they swam with us for about half an hour. Paddle boarding is a nice outdoor activity here. You’ll usually see big starfish, sea serpents, puffer fish that are about 2 feet, and all sorts of marine life, all just from your stand up paddleboard. You can just take your paddleboard and paddle out from the shore and you can see all the way to the bottom of the sea. I’ve done paddle boarding at night and it’s fantastic because I’ve gone on a full moon. If you go out when there’s no moon and it is completely dark out, when you paddle and look down at the sea, you’ll see the fluorescent algae with bioluminescence that leaves a trail behind the board as well. It’s amazing! And it is pitch dark so you will see billions of stars.
(Isla Espiritu Santo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, pictured.)
Posted July 7, 2016