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La Paz Slideshow
Travel Blogs from La Paz, Mexico
Crazy crazy Carlos....
This is a top pick! ... imagine, I moved on rather quickly, as did Trey (who had fallen asleep under the tree and woken up with Carlos beside him). Welcome to La Paz. Dinner was good - some of the first real food I've eaten in days. My appetite isn't what is used to be. I ...
From Tijuana to Cabo (1691 kms) under our belt
This is a top pick! We are finally finishing the Baja leg our trip, and catching the ferry tomorrow from La Paz to the mainland (Los Mochis). La Paz, on the east coast of the Baja and about 150 kms north of Los Cabos, is the state capital and an easy city to hang out in ...
Baja California
This is a top pick! ... even has a patisserie selling great baguettes. We continue on, stopping at the pleasant town of Loreto, before finally arriving in La Paz. A nice but as yet, not touristy town in the south of Baja California. Itīs Marcīs birthday on the Sunday, ...
Still in La Paz...
This is a top pick! ... to Guadalajara from there...and there are some other logistical problems I might encounter along the way. Should be sketchy. So total costs for La Paz- 15$ for the hotel, 4$ in taxis, approx 17$ for food, 2$ to the ferry terminal. The bus here was ...
Couchsurfing Rookies
This is a top pick! ... that most Mexican food consists of similar ingredients, yet their creativity in using those ingredients is limitless! Having been in Mexico for 2 months already we were surprised to discover just how many dishes we hadn't yet tried, let alone heard ...
Desperately Seeking Suzie Q
This is a top pick! ... , Mexico. We hopped on in Todos Santos and started our northward-bound adventure together. It was too late to get any further than La Paz that night. The details of the route were just details, so it was great that we were like-minded in this way. The ...
Beautiful Baja California
This is a top pick! ... better than Greyhouds in the US to my big surprise! I crossed some beautiful deserts in Baja and arrived at La Paz around 6pm. My first real taste of Mexico, wow! somewhat a culture shock. I just realized my spanglish cannot be understood by anyone. I ...
Beachcombing Part II
... Model-T rots in the leafy central courtyard, a dusty, stuffed spider monkey straddling the vehicle's dashboard. The waterfront in La Paz is less inspiring, the tepid, shallow water and beach mottled by green seaweed. Shuttle buses run tourists and ...
La Paz
... hostels in every town and city. i get a decent room with TV and sleep. All the time hoping that this place isnt a brothel. La Paz is the nicest place i have been in Baja. Nice sandy beach and nice bars and cafes. the lack of other backpackers is ...
No wonder why I feel hot!
... such positive things... it completely changes your mindset and puts you in a wonderful mood. Speaking of wonderful... the people here in La Paz are absolutely awesome. They are so friendly, kind, polite, and if you smile at them they are very quick ...
La Paz! We're in the big city now!
... nbsp; entire place only had 4 rooms and only one other was occupied by a young Italian couple celebrating their honeymoon. La Paz is a pretty big city by Baja standards and it felt great to be able to just get some stuff done...like ...
Tortillaring in Mexico
... they had finished searching, the ferry terminal was empty! Headed off for the Pensione alifornia, a crazy yellow and blue hotel in La Paz. The walls are lined with old paintings and the courtyard has old car bits and bones. Always a good place to ...
Mexico
... to see what all the fuss what about. For those of you that don't know, Mark's sister, Jessica is living and working in La Paz as an Illustrator with a marine conservation charity. She fell in love with this place some years ago and has visited regularly ...
Isla Espiritu Santo
Isla Espiritu Santo, one of the jewels of the Mexican national park made up of islands in the Sea of Cortez, lies directly across the San Lorenzo Channel from Playa Tecolote. During my days on the beach promoters tour chatted me up to take a boat trip to ...
Plans changed... again :)
... we could hear it from our room! Uh, it was only the day after Halloween!). Anyway.. so we ended up on a 22hr bus ride to La Paz! hee hee Heck, why not? haha So, after 22 long hours on a freezing cold bus, we finally arrived to this cute beachside ...
Playa Tecolote
From my campground it was a three hour drive through dull, mostly flat desert landscape to La Paz, southern Baja's largest city, and onward to a peninsula north of town with especially good beaches. At the tip of the short peninsula which juts into the ...
Did I mention it is hot here?
Did I mention that it is hot here? whew... well, I was looking for the heat, and boy did I get it! I have no idea what the actual temp is, all we know is that it is HOT HOT HOT! Last night we went for beers with Mike from Oregeon... super nice guy ...
To Baja California
... us to move a bit quicker through the very thorough inspection by the Mexican customs officials!!!! We got a shared taxi into the centre of La Paz as there was no sign of the bus. We had asked to be dropped off at the Spanish school where we wanted to ...
Een compleet verslag van de zeilstage tot nu toe.
... we nu zitten. Het gaat prima, het wordt steeds warmer, alle winterkleren kunnen opgeborgen worden. Morgen ga ik La Paz verkennen en donderdag vertrekken we weer. Zeezeilstage Vrijdag 13 januari, Ensenada Mexico Vanochtend om 7 uur ...
Lange dagen in La Paz
Dinsdag 6 februari Het zijn lange dagen in La Paz. Was er oorspronkelijk een stop van twee dagen gepland, het werden er zeven. Reden het grootzeil. We hadden al een scheurtje opgelopen ter hoogte van Magdalena Bay en er zaten nog wat gaatjes en zwakke ...
La Paz Arrival
We made the 220 or so miles today to La Paz. Well worth the drive! We are at an RV park right on the bay and the breeze is wonderful. There is virtually no one here. The gates were locked when we arrived and the owner "Mary Lu" came out to unlock and ...
Sea Lions
The palm trees were near horizontal and the dust was swirling violently in the streets when I arrived in La Paz early Saturday evening. Fortunately I had made it into my accom before the 10 minutes of heavy rain commenced - sufficient enough to flood ...
Baja California, Mexico
... all saw in the new year in an appropriate style. On Christmas day i left the states and headed over the border into Mexico. The timing of this sucks, but under No circumstances will American immigration let you extend your visa if you entered the country ...
THE ADVENTURE BEGINS
... , who has lived here for more than 24 years. We had lunch with her yesterday (the 15th) at her restaurant just outside of La Paz and tonight we are going back for dining and dancing at her restaurant, the Club Marlin. This is a very special place, ...
Our firsts....
... us the 3 blocks! grr! staying below our standards: Lorraine's Guesthouse, Caye Caulker getting ridiculously drunk: John - La Paz, Baja California cockroach in our room: Cozumel Music: Hotel California - La Paz to Todos Santos ...
I canīt drag myself away from this place.
Today was to be the day that we head over to mainland Mexico. After three months in Baja California, I reckoned it was about time I moved on. So when Bruce told me there was a big, clean south swell coming, what did we do? Go back to Conejo. For the ...
That'll end a 'discussion'
Day 20 We found a lovely hotel in La Paz with a (very cold) pool and a great rooftop lounge area. It is directly across from the Malecon. I love it. We walked to the Museo Nacional del Virreinato. There was no English signage so we ...
This is only a map pin
This is just here to keep the 'routing' more accurate... we didn't stay in LaPaz although we did go there twice today - read next ...
Third time in Conejo...
... . It was to be my third time in this amazing place. The idea was to surprise Bruce, who would be expecting to meet us in La Paz the following day. We might even get a quick surf in. Bruce wasnīt there. Heīd buggered off early. No worries. We ...