A Tour of the Fabulous Mexican Beaches in Baja California

Mexico has some of the most beautiful beaches caressed by the warm waters of the sea and the ocean. Extensive coastlines of incomparable beauty where unparalleled world-renowned resorts have developed, and delightful, unspoiled places that invite you to visit them. Let's take a tour of the marvelous Mexican beaches from Baja California to Baja California Sur.

Baja California

The splendid border city of Tijuana, one of the most modern and crowded cities in the country, has enchanting golden beaches, where visitors find the tranquility they long for, especially during the winter season. Among the most visited are Raja del Mar, Mar y Sol, Baja Malibu, and Playa Tijuana, which offer the practice of sports such as fishing, surfing, and sailing.

Twenty-five kilometers south of Tijuana, bordering the Pacific coast are some of the most beautiful beaches in the state. The mild climate, the insinuating sands that invite you to enjoy the sun, and the imposing sea, quench the thirst for water sports, making Rosarito, the preferred tourist destination of national and foreign vacationers, many of them international celebrities.

Restaurants offer seafood specialties and traditional international cuisine. Hotels and tourist developments provide unlimited lodging options of all kinds. Rosarito also hosts international events such as cycling tours, motorcycle races, and sports championships, and its beaches are part of a 112-kilometer corridor known as the Gold Coast, where major tourism megaprojects are located.

Enjoying life in Rosarito is not difficult at all, whether swimming in the blue waters of the ocean, walking the beaches, horseback riding, or enjoying the wonders of the coast.

Just 10 kilometers south of Rosarito is Puerto Nuevo, a fishing village that became famous for its lobster, one of the delicacies offered by the region's cuisine. The contrasting beauty of Medio Camino beach allows you to admire the beautiful bluish tone of the sea on one side and the warm sands of the dune landscape on the other. It is located 42 kilometers south of Rosarito and also offers the charm of the Dominican Mission founded in 1814. Relevant sports activities include fishing, motocross, and kite flying.

Ensenada and its surroundings

Ensenada has become in the last years one of the most interesting tourist sites in the State since it has ideal scenarios for fishing. With moderate waves, gentle slope and warm waters are the beaches: Tres Hermanos, El Estero, San Carlos and Bahía de Todos los Santos. It is an oasis for water sports such as fishing, sailing, diving, surfing, regattas, and motorboat races. And as additional attractions, it has monuments of religious architecture, distinctive gastronomy, and varied handicrafts.

The scenery of Bahía de Todos los Santos is sensational. Just imagine a great cliff on one side, the bay full of beautiful fauna and on the other, as a dome, the bluest sky you can admire. All this is located just 5 kilometers south of Ensenada on Federal Highway No. 1. The most popular beaches for diving, fishing, sailing, swimming, and surfing are Bocona de Santo Tomás and El Ciprés, for their light waves and soft sand.

Punta Banda, only 30 kilometers from Ensenada, among other attractions is the renowned Bufadora, a deep cave dug at the base of the cliff, where the strong waves come in with a great roar, causing the water to gush upward through a hole in the rock, surpassing a great roar, 20 meters high and splashing the amazed tourists with its freshness.

San Quintin is a paradise for photographers who prefer landscapes of rock formations that show the various layers of the different eras that the earth has lived. To reach this site of volcanic chains and soft sandy beaches with flat stones, you travel 191 kilometers south of Ensenada.

On the coast of the Sea of Cortez is San Felipe, known as "Paradise of the Totoaba", since during the winter it shelters in its waters an infinity of these fish. Located 196 kilometers from Mexicali, the town welcomes visitors with a natural spectacle of waves up to 14 meters high and beautiful beaches of fine sand and gentle slopes.

In San Luis Gonzaga, the gentle waves of the Sea of Cortez invite fishing and sailing. Located 355 kilometers south of Mexicali, it awaits visitors with beautiful handicrafts and a wide variety of activities and services.

Picturesque and important is the beautiful fishing port of Bahía de los Angeles, with a very pleasant climate, and an extensive beach with gentle waves and slopes, which invites sailing, wildlife watching, and sport fishing. Excursions can be made to Isla Rosa, a paradise for migratory bird watchers.

Baja California Sur

Guerrero Negro: A wise choice made by some marine species when they decided to take as natural refuge this magnificent place in the limits of the States of Baja California and Baja California Sur. The calm waters of the immense Bahía Vizcaíno are witness to the arrival of blue whales that year after year have their calves during the winter in the interior lagoons of Ojo de Liebre and Scamón. It is exciting to witness this natural phenomenon. The largest salt flats in the world are exploited here. A paradise for sea lions and seals is the rocky southern shores of the Peninsula.

A true paradise in the Pacific Ocean is Todos Santos Bay with its beaches. El Baquetito, El Cangrejo, Punta Lobos and La Playita, with their crystalline waters, will provide the visitor with one of his best experiences. Cabo San Lucas, at the southern end of the peninsula, has fishing, sailing, and diving as its main attractions. The place also offers a landscape framed by the famous cliffs sculpted by the waves over time.

The maximum example is the majestic Arco, where the cold waters of the Pacific Ocean and the warm waters of the Sea of Cortez mix. This tourist development offers its visitors a great variety of activities and natural attractions. Its beaches: Del Amor, Cabo del Sol, Bahía de Santa María, and Bajo Colorado, have been chosen to create a refuge for marine species that hide in their depths the phenomenal sand waterfalls, unique in the world.

San José del Cabo, bathed by calm waters, is a pleasant and picturesque town eager to share its history. The old Jesuit mission of San Jose, built on a hill, is a paradise full of folklore, handicrafts, and religious architecture that invites you to remember. Brisa Mar, Laguna de Cortés, Punta Palmilla, Costa Azul, and Acapulquito are some of the beautiful beaches where you can practice fishing, sailing, diving, and other marine sports.

Filled with natural beauties and white sand beaches, La Paz, the capital of the State of Baja California Sur, is a magnificent tourist destination for those who practice fishing and diving and are lovers of beautiful and quiet landscapes. Its most popular beaches are Coromuel, El Tecolote, Caimancito, Balandra, El Coyote and Pichilingue.

Nopoló, Puerto Escondido, and Loreto are the beaches that make up the Loreto tourist complex, made up of hotels, villas, residences, a golf course, a marina, a tennis club, and a convention center. The calm waters and fine sands of this paradise attract visitors to practice fishing for the great variety of marine species that congregate in the area, as well as hunting in the Sierra de la Giganta. It is impossible to overlook a place with so much natural wealth coated with architectural beauty and attractive services.

One of the most important ports in the Sea of Cortez is Santa Rosalia. It is interesting to know its special charms, as well as to travel on the ferry that arrives from Guaymas, Son. During the whole year the beaches of San Bruno, El Requesón, and Los Muertos, receive visitors with a very pleasant climate and it is the ideal place for the practice of fishing and sailing, as well as to enjoy its festivities.

Camping or fishing and sailing in a place like the oasis of Mulegé becomes an unforgettable experience. Its architectural, religious, and civil beauty make this place an open-air museum with the attraction of its fine sand beaches bathed by the gentle waves of the Sea of Cortez. It is located 63 kilometers south of Santa Rosalía.