Kaleidoscope Travel & Cruise

Article Published: March 2nd, 2006

The final port of call on Kaleidoscope Travel & Cruise’s recent group cruise tour was Cabo San Lucas. The resort town of Cabo San Lucas is named for the slender cape extending eastward from Baja’s southernmost tip, gradually developed into a tourist hot spot the last forty years. Today, Los Cabos is booming and is currently the seventh most popular tourist destination in Mexico and the second fastest growing resort community in the country. Cabo has been blessed with what many describe as the perfect climate. Average year-round temperature is 25 degrees, it is a little cooler in the winter and a bit warmer in the summer. For years Cabo was the remote playground reserved solely for private yacht owners. They flocked here to be near “Marlin Alley”, as the waters around Cabo have often been described. The name is well deserved, as Cabo San Lucas is the undisputed billfish capital of the world. . Cabo’s signature landmark is El Arco (“The Arch”), a rock formation at the tip of “Land’s End,” where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortez. A boat trip there is a must, if only to come face to face with the hundreds of noisy sea lions who reside on the rock formations. If you have time, hire a water taxi to take you to “Lovers Beach,” the only beach in the world bounded by two different oceans. A whale watching excursion is another “must do,” if you are there between December and March, when thousands of California gray whales and other species are making their nnual migration from colder climates.

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