Tijuana, Mexico Travel Blogs

Tijuana
Jun 10, 2006

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La Línea
Jan 23, 2007 (23 photos)

... gold mine of facts and figures and gave us the low down on pretty much everything, including the current situation in Tijuana. Apparently they and all the other tourist information centres in the vicinity had been brought up to speed earlier this morning, ...

Baja California
May 23, 2006 (20 photos)

... and I think we've already realised that we're gonna need a lot of patience, to get us through our Latin America trip! Tijuana itself is an interesting place, where two very different cultures come together. In many ways it´s just as Mexican as any town ...

A day trip to Tijuana
Oct 1, 1998 (6 photos)

... to go into Mexico as you walk pass a large fence with barb-wire and before you know it you are in Mexico and Tijuana is right in front of you. When I got over the border there were little girls selling jewelry they only look like 2 ...

Hey Amigo! We're off to Tijuana, MEXICO!
Apr 21, 2008 (34 photos)

... what happened and still cross the border with only one passport and just a student card for the daughter! Crazy!   Tijuana - what a colourful place (clothes, pictures etc all in bright colours), and probably what you imagine in your mind about a ...

TJ hellhole
Aug 3, 2006

After managing to take a good 8 hrs to get from LA to the american dream town of Tijuana (courtesy greyhound buses Air NZ would not be impressed with their OTP!). Was an eventful trip down, as i was sitting next to a ex(?) drug dealer, on his way home ...

Day trip across the border to Mexico
Feb 27, 2009

Well as the border is so close between the US of A and Mexico I decided to take a day trip to the worlds most crossed border Tijuana, plus I wanted to check it out to see what all the fuss was about, and do a recce as I was getting a flight out of there to ...

Tijuana Baby
Jun 29, 2004

... border. I did some shopping and bargained for bags and silver and then had a mexican lunch of fajitas and motijo cocktails! Tijuana is Mexico, but it is not "real" mexico. Tijuana caters to the tourist arriving from the States and it also seems, boys ...

Tijuana
Mar 15, 2004

Tijuana

and wrap...
Jul 8, 2007

Well that's it for the official AOC part of the journey. We rode the final stretch into Tijuana this morning, had a drink, some lunch, relaxed a bit, and back to camp to see some of the first to leave off. Eight of us bought tickets for Hermosillo to go ...

Buenas Dias Me-hico
Jun 10, 2007 (16 photos)

... to stay, looking forward to getting back there now. Next on the agenda was to hop over the border to Mexico, in the end, just an overnight in Tijuana. According to a banner over a bar in town, Tijuana is 'the most visited city in the world'. I'm sure ...

Road trip #2
Aug 9, 2008

Road trip to San Diego Mexico Beach Down town Balboa park Long drive home

Real tacos in Mexico....
Jan 3, 2008 (5 photos)

The tacos were good and the meds were even better. The only bad thing was the cab accident with mom in the front seat. But I suppose the cab driver thought his brakes worked without apply/pumping them.

Tijuana, Mexico
Oct 23, 2007 (8 photos)

... bit disappointing, but understandably not a major deal considering what is going on around us. We decided to move our trip to Tijuana forward, and took the truck down to a parking area on the U.S side. Absolutely no worries getting into Mexico - we just ...

Viva Mexico!!
Aug 27, 2004 (5 photos)

... Mexico to one of my places visited. (I'm pretty sure many Mexican people and others would object to that statement since Tijuana hardly represents Mexico, but hey!! It's in Mexico so it's a part of Mexico!!) I flew in to Los Angeles yesterday, really ...

Trouble in Tijuana
Jun 10, 2003

You can't be that close to Tijuana and not go.  We bought a lot of things that aren't quite legal in the U.S. (not drugs)  And we got to drink tequila and corona with Smither's mom

South of the Border
Sep 2, 2009 (3 photos)

One of the day trips that we took from Newport Beach was a trip into Tijuana, Mexico. I knew I didn't want to go far across the border, just enough to say I had been to Mexico and to finally get some use out of my passport. We parked our car on the US side ...

Tijuana
Jul 29, 2007 (5 photos)

... Do we look that stupid!! Queues for crossing the border, mental. Got stamped into USA before getting stamped out of Mexico, confusing. Welly got extension to the Mexican visa for 180days (basically the guy just scrubbed out the 90day and wrote over ...

Para Recquerdo
Sep 23, 2007 (10 photos)

We headed, with instructions to make sure we did not drive across the border, into Mexico. We pulled off at the last U.S. exit and walked across. This was so that we did not have to bring our car back through the horrifically long customs line. Through ...

Tijuana, Mexicali Border
Jul 6, 2008 (22 photos)

... to the border. We checked with the border protection if we will be able to come back to US soil once we cross the overpass going to Mexico. "You're good." Hence we went on. We only spent few hours there and had our taste of taco. Since this is not a ...

TJ-I love the border
Dec 23, 2005

... get the money to travel like this? where was you last job? do you speak Spanish? why do you speak Spanish? is your mother from Spain, Mexico? Then he asked me if I ever trained at a terrorist camp and I shit my pants! Well he didn't ask that, but I felt ...

Tijuana - Margharita's, Mexican Food n Black Jack
Mar 29, 2005

Over breakfast I heard some girls saying they were going on the trolley to Tijuana, which is just over the Mexico border and is renowned for the American under 21's to go for a good drinking session. I cordially invited myself as it was my one month ...

The 2nd most dangerous place in Mexico
Apr 23, 2009 (9 photos)

... . We took her advise and headed down, now as i have tried to explain prior the contrast of the states and Mexico or better said San Diego and Tijuana is brutal. To say that they are only separated by 45 mins they could not be more different in every way ...

Tequila!
Oct 3, 2006 (7 photos)

... . Anyone can stroll into Mexico but not everyone can return to 'otra lado' (the other side). Well, we strolled into Tijuana, down the infamous La Revolucion where we were beckoned into all manner of locales... settling upon a loud bar with a good view ...

TIJUANA
Mar 28, 2007

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Tijuana-tastic...
Oct 11, 2007

... to hand in my tourist card to scary US immigration fellas at the border. I had to go back over again to do it. So this is actually my second time in Mexico...  Tijuana´s crazy. Didn´t stick around for long, though. Caught the ABC bus to......

Perchas Chidas
Apr 17, 2007 (9 photos)

... en tres eventos importantes para mi... 1.Coincidir con viaje de negocios de último minuto de mi ex-novio japonés (zen) a la ciudad de México, que incluyo un bonito viaje en pijama a la planta baja desde un sexto piso el día que tembló, hasta una mística cruda ...

Tijuana
May 25, 2006

... and fingerprinted to get into the US border guards are nowhere to be seen when you leave. We were pretty apprehensive about Tijuana (and Mexico)as all the Americans we had spoken to seemed to think we were likely to be shot within seconds of crossing the ...

Tijuana Mexico, walking across
Dec 4, 2008 (10 photos)

PHOTO_ID_L=cimg3052.jpg Tijuana; what a controversial city, most of us will say/or complain that it's a very violent city with all the drug wars, but then we keep on returning. Well on December the 4th I decided to return to TJ which has become a monthly ...

Entering Tijuana, Baha California, Mexico
Jan 10, 2008 (79 photos)

... Mexican Border once again and this time we stopped prior to entering Tijuana.  We would not advise anyone to enter Mexico through the Tijuana Border Crossing, that is if you plan to further onto Mexico mainland.  The reason is that it is quite ...