Baja California The North Side of the Peninsula 

The peninsula called Baja California (lower California, in English) extends from the US border at San Ysidro/Tijuana and Mexicali, southward about 1000 miles to its tip at Los Cabos.

At the north, an hour south of Tijuana, are the harbor city of Ensenada and the Guadalupe Valley – like the Napa Valley in California, offering a scenic path through fields of ripening wine grapes – and further south on the Pacific side more fields of grapes and  a series of fishing and agricultural towns along the shoreline, and some spectacular mountains.   To the east on the border is Mexicali, and on the Sea of Cortez side, a paved highway leads south from that city to San Felipe, with a number of options for camping and fishing in between.

Most of the peninsula is desert, but with incredibly varied terrain and scenery, especially in the largely empty central part, with a series of small towns dotting the highway and coastal alreas.   It’s a great drive, and you don’t even have to be very adventuresome to take it.  See our section on transportation in this same area of the site.   Guerrero Negro, at the state line halfway down, is the site of one of the largest salt-producing industries in the world.

The lower half, the state of Baja California Sur, includes historical and tourist attractions in the towns of San Ignacio, Santa Rosalia, Mulege, Loreto, Constitucion, La Paz, Todos Santos, Los Barriles, and the Los Cabos cities of San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas with their highly developed tourist industry, and some of the most beautiful scenery anywhere.

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