The bay of Cabo San Lucas, at the southernmost tip of Baja, was once a base for pirate ships waiting to pounce on Spanish treasure ships. Even fifteen years ago, it was little more than a fishing and canning village occasionally visited by adventurous sports fishermen with the means to sail in or fly down, but it quickly earned a reputation for the marlin that could be caught here, and the once-quiet place found itself inundated with fishermen in search of El Marlin Azul, home to sleek, radar-equipped fishing yachts.
In recent years, it has rapidly become the focal point of Los Cabos: million-dollar condos have sprung up, palms have been transplanted, golf courses have been laid, water has been piped in from San José and everywhere is kept pristine. More like an enclave of the US than part of Mexico, preserving almost nothing that is not geared to tourism, it can be fun for a day or two, unless, of course, you want to fish or dive. Though prices are higher than in neighbouring San José, there's more of a party atmosphere, with a younger crowd. Currently there are some 3000 rooms for rent, and the local feeling is that 10,000 is the next feasible "goal" that would equate the town with the long-established resorts such as Mazatlán or Acapulco. Upcoming developments include an enormous mall that will comprise a convention centre, a theatre complex, a bowling alley, a huge parking outlet and condos, and there are even plans for an artificial island to sit in the bay, complete with restaurants and bars.
Los Cabos has much to offer in the way of activities and rentals. Adventures await the Cabo San Lucas traveler. Let us help you decide how to spend your time having fun in Cabo San Lucas.
As you gaze out at the luminous Sea of Cortez around Cabo San Lucas, Los Cabos in Baja California Sur, you find you have discovered a place of unusual and profound beauty. The region called Los Cabos encompasses Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo and the Tourist Corridor in between. The turquoise sky is almost too blue to be believed, the Baja desert landscape mutable and foreign.
You want to live it, embrace it, and envelop yourself in one of Mother Nature’s finest compositions. The hum and hustle of Cabo San Lucas is far away; you are in another dimension. Out of the corner of your eye something leaps from the water. Squinting to make out what it was, you wait. There it is again. For an instant, a pair of dancing manta rays cavort playfully in the distance. You’re too far away to hear the slap, slap on the water, but you can imagine it. From what you’ve heard about the waters around Cabo San Lucas and Los Cabos you know that here live whales and dolphins, sea lions and turtles, big game fish and whalesharks, and kaleidoscopic schools of tropical fish. You daydream of being in the water amongst them. Eternal as the moon and stars, the ocean is the lifeblood of our human existence. Its rhythmic pulse lulls us to sleep at dusk and at each dawn we are again drawn to its shore. We exploit it, degrade it and long to conquer it. Omnipotently, with raging storms and destructive force, the sea demands we face our smallness.
When the Europeans arrived to civilize the people of the Sea of Cortez, they found a tribe of humans living within nature’s will. Possessions and tools were minimal, clothing superfluous. Original sin was the white man’s burden, a foreign and incomprehensible concept to natural man.
Imagine an innocent race, shucking oysters on the shore with whales spouting in the distance, fish leaping and dolphins singing. In the desert, the sweet fruit of the pitahaya cactus ripens for the feast. Peel away the present, strip the man-made from this place and you will find that all of that wonder is still here.