Mexcapade - Tour Operator Baja California

Night in a hotel in standard room with breakfast.
For this day, you can choose among the following options:
Paying excursions: (Your choice must be determined at least 8 days before the excursion)
- Boat trip to Espiritu Santo Island (Sea lions, Dolphins, geologic formations).
(Half day).
- Sea kayak in the bay of La Paz. (half day)
- Scuba driving
- Horseback riding in a canyon and on the beach
(Half day)
- ATV on the beach and into dunes (3 hours)
Suggestions of visits:
- The city-centre and its ancient memorials.
- Excursion in the cactus sanctuary near El Triunfo
(Half-day) (Payable separately).
- Make the most of beautiful beaches of El Tesoro, of Balandra and Tecolote.
- Todos Santos, village of artiste and its beach in border of the Pacific. (Whole day)
- Crossing of the Sierra of Laguna from east to west by dirt road.
(Crossing in 15 km in the South of Miraflores, and follow Los Naranjos)
Caution, the trail is in bad condition(s) in some places (whole day).
- Excursion to San Juan de la Costa and San Evaristo (North of La Paz by following the
coast).Very beautiful road which overhangs the Gulf of California.
Mountains coloured with green, pink, red and beige. Impressive geologic formations.
Possibility of exploring one of the canyons which opens onto the road. (Just before
arriving in San Juan de la Costa) (Half day), (the light is ideal in the morning). It is
possible to continue 2 “good” hours by following the coast until San Evaristo, small
fishermen village, but the road becomes more and more difficult. (Whole day).
- Excursion to Los Cabos. (Essentially San Jose del Cabo).
Visits of the Historic-centre of San Jose del Cabo, the estuary and its palm grove, Cacti
Mundo (botanical garden with exclusively cacti and succulent plants). To Cabo San Lucas
Possibility of excursion to the natural arch which marks the south end of the peninsula.
(Whole day).
Suggestion of restaurants in La Paz:
- Restaurant recommendations:
- Rancho Viejo : Specialities of Tacos of Arrachera (grilled beef) and other authentic Mexican dishes.
(In Calle Marquez de Leon, at one block away from the seaside ). Simple but tasty!
- La Bohème (our restaurant) : French, Mexican and international cuisine. An old
colonial house built in 1855, with an interior patio, calm and shady, situated in the
heart of La Paz (in Calle Esquerro, not far from, the seaside). The offices of Mexcapade are situated in this setting.
- Azul Marino : Restaurant with International cuisine with a Mexican touch (inside the Marina Costa Baja)
- Il Rustico: Italian restaurant (Revolución at the corner with Bravo)
- La Envidia de Dali: Little coffee where you can find good express, teas and tisanes with a good pastries
along with (Madero street inside Casa Parra Galery).  

- Departure for Loreto (+/-3:30 hours of road), the historic capital of California.
Charming village where you can admire the oldest of all the missions of Baja California,
as well as California, Nuestra Senora de Loreto.
- Night at hotel situated in the entrance of the city.
- Base: standard room without breakfast.
Optional paying excursions:
- Boat trip in to Coronados Island. Snorkeling in the middle of the sea lions.

Picnic on the beach. (A half-day)
- Scuba diving in the marine national park of Loreto.
Suggestions of visits:
- The city center and its ancient memorials. (Mission, museum).
- Excursion by to Mission San Javier located in the Sierra de la Giganta.
- Hike in the canyon El Tabor (to reach it, take the trail in the direction of the mountain
situated just in front of the crossing for Puerto Escondido (15 km in the South of
Loreto). (around 2 hours tour)
 

Departure for San Javier situated at 36 km (20 miles) of dirt road from Loreto. The trail rises
through the Sierra de la Giganta and overhangs green canyons. At the end of some hours, you
reach the mission, in the hollow of mountains in the middle of an oasis.
Do not miss to go to see the hundred-years-old olive trees situated behind and which were
planted by Jesuit missionaries in the 18th century.
You can have a lunch in a local restaurant, after you take back the trail in the other direction. The descent is
also spectacular with, in the background, the intense blue of the Sea of Cortez… Return to
Loreto.
Night at a hotel in standard room without breakfast.
 

Today direction Mulegé. The road is lined with immense Cardon cactus which exceed 15
meters (45 feet), then you open onto Bahia Concepcion. You follow the coast of the gulf on
the road in ledge via the wonderful Bay, above the Sea of Cortez. Beaches succeed one
another, lined with mangrove swamp.
The beaches of Buenaventura, Coyote and Santispac are options for lunch.
After Bahia Concepcion, you arrive in Mulegé, real oasis in the middle of the desert with its
palm grove along the river and its mini peaceful and colored central square.
Night in a little hotel (standard room with breakfast).

Small village rocked by the rhythm of the stream which crosses it, we invite you to walk at
the heart of the oasis, to visit the Mission and the former prison that has now become a
museum, and admire the very present and cheap crafts.
You will have all the time to return to Bahia Concepcion to take completely the most of this
sublime place.
Night at hotel in standard room with breakfast.

Departure for San Ignacio. On the way you stop at Santa Rosalía, former mining city today
reconverted into the fishing of the Squid of Humboldt.
The singular colonial French architecture gives this place a resemblance of a city of the Wild
West.
The church conceived by Gustave Eiffel and the bakery are two curiosities which are worth
being seen. The state and the municipality launched in 2006 a project of restoration of the
ancient buildings to return to the city its atypical historic heritage.
You continue then towards San Ignacio. On the road you can admire the majesty of Tres
Virgenes and Azufre volcanoes, what allow you to observe very close the solidified lava
flows.
The last eruption dates from the 18th century.
Arrival at San Ignacio. Night in a standard and fully equipped yurt!
This B&B is run by adorable Canadians (English speaking), she prepares excellent breakfasts,
and as the river is very near, the customers benefit from kayaks or small boat to sail the
watercourse up to the spring.

(Mid-January to Mid-April)
During this day, direction Laguna San Ignacio for an encounter with the grey whales…
Approximately two hours of road until you reach the Lagoon and then 1:30 hours or two by
boat in the lagoon. In this period of the year, it is possible to see tens of whales and even pet
them for the luckier!
Have lunch in an ecological camp and then return to San Ignacio.
(The trail between San Ignacio and the lagoon is very beautiful and offers changeable and
contrasted landscapes). Night in standard yurt with breakfast.

Departure to the sierra of San Francisco. You take the road northward and after some
kilometers, you fork on the right. From there, the trail rises on the crest of the mountain
between two canyons. It is during this day that you will have the opportunity to see the
biggest variety of plants of your entire journey, notably the “cirio”, endemic plant with
strange forms.
Points of view are spectacular on the plain, the canyons and the surrounding mountains.
After approximately two hours, you reach San Francisco de la Sierra. Small village lost in the
middle of the mountains, living essentially on the breeding and on the tourism.
If you wish it, you can visit the Cueva Del Raton (if you have before bought your ticket at
THE INAH offices which are situated under the courtyard of the mission (Open at 8 am), and
have retrieved your guide in San Francisco de la Sierra). The cave contains rock paintings
dating from more than 4000 years testifying of the ethnological past of the peninsula.
 

(Mid-January to Mid-April)
Departure to Guerrero Negro. Where our partner is waiting for you and is going to take you
for a second time to the meeting of the grey whales in Laguna Ojo de Liebre.
You will also have the occasion to visit the biggest salt works of the world to reach the
lagoon. It is deeper and bigger than that of San Ignacio. Whales are there generally even more
numerous than on the site of San Ignacio… Return in city and spend the night in a hotel
in standard room with breakfast.
 

Here you have reached Baja California norte, you cross the border between both states and
continue northward. To come up to Rosarito, you take the dirt road which leads to the mission
San Borja, one of the most isolated of the peninsula. You cross wonderful landscapes strewed
with plants all as strange as the others. It is here that cirios can reach 20 meters high.
You visit the mission with the local guardian then you continue your road.
Finally, you arrive at Bahia of Los Angeles, kind of mirage which appears from the desert…
At sunset, mountains wear ochre and red colors, the whole being reflected on a glassy sea...
Night in a hotel in standard room with breakfast.
 

Various possibilities are offered to you for this day:
- Sport fishing in the bay of Los Angeles
- The numerous beaches in pristine waters
- Snorkeling
- Hiking in the surrounding desert
- Boat trip on the bay.
Night in a hotel in standard room with breakfast.

Return to San Ignacio by the road.
Night in a comfortable yurt with breakfast.
 

Way back towards Laguna San Ignacio and continue southward until San Juanico. This part of
the circuit is exclusively constituted by trail in more or less good condition.
It is the occasion to be a little more adventurous while discovering one of the wildest and
most virgin part of the peninsula, through the long dirt road that connects San Ignacio to San
Juanico…
You cross varied desert landscapes and join finally the village of San Juanico, considered in
the world of surfing to possess one of the longest waves of the planet. (This phenomenon
arises mostly during summer months).
Night in a standard room with breakfast
 

Free/Available Day to take advantage of the Pacific Ocean (for the first time). It will be
possible for you to rent a surfboard and let you slide on the waves if you feel like it.
Night in a standard room with breakfast.
 

You resume the road southward. This one is soon transformed into a dirt road, and you
continue until San Isidro. The village is situated in a wide valley dominated by "El Pilon", a
very photo genic rocky cone. At its feet, a green palm grove lines the river.
After the break, you get back in the car, direction La Paz, with the head full of images…
Arrival at the end of the day.
At night in a charming hotel in standard room with breakfast.
 

Day to relax or go into one of the activities proposed at Day 1.

You leave your vehicle at the airport and take your flight back.
End of our services.