Cabo San Lucas

Cabo San Lucas

If you decide to travel and enjoy tuna fishing or just eat well Mexican food or you are fun of climbing and see one of the most attractive Mexican Riviera than definitely I can recommend Cabo San Lucas.

Cabo is small place with down town and a lot of places to visit or explore. You can have unique experience doing tours whale watching or dolphin swim or just go to lovers beach and enjoy your time.

My first visit to Cabo was by Cruise ship, and it is a tender port, which means life boat will take to the shore. The view from the ship to the shore is stunning. This place remains me a lot on Venice, Italy with all this small boats or taxi shuttle going up or back and yachts’ marine there all around down town.

I was lucky and had really good tourist guide because my Mexican friend lives here so I could see many places and explore more than usual tourist.

Once you step on land there many shops available to go shopping, especially homemade, which makes this place very unique. WiFi Internet you can find everywhere but I had telcel Mexican sim card and I did not have problem with internet and communication. A lot of bars and restaurants are located on the entrance but if you go to your right, you will find much quieter place to sit down, have margarita or famous fajitas. I would like to recommend my favorite place here. It is captain Tony’s restaurant ( http://captaintonys.restaurantwebexperts.com/ ). Not far away from this restaurant is shopping mall behind the sign Cabo where you can take amazing pictures.

Before you reach the shopping mall, water taxi shuttle station is available on every 10 steps so can choose tour which one is the best for you. My friend Marlon and I did whale watching.

 Very simple two hours tour and it cost $20 per person. Guy with small boat took us to the open sea and than our adventures has started. Basically, we were chasing the whales. Interesting right? My friend explained me that whales come out from deep sea to take a breath and before they do, they splash out water from the lungs so when you see that on open sea, you turn the boat and come closer because in few seconds whale will go out from the water. Yes, I felt very excited at that moment, but once I saw how big they are and I was in small boat first tough was what if they hit the boat? Well, it never happened before because they see very nice and they avoid hitting, that’s why I said you are chasing them. It was so good experience and I would love to do one more time. Water in Cabo San Lucas during the winter is colder than other part of Mexico, so the best time to see whales is during winter.

Once I was eating lunch on the lido restaurant on the ship and suddenly people start running on open deck. Apparently someone notice whale around the ship swimming around but the most interesting part it was babe whale and mum whale. There were swimming and it was very pleasant to see them.

The other place I would like to recommend to see is lovers beach. Again, small water taxi, just like in Venice, will take you to the lovers beach. Reason why this beach got this name is because is between two huge rocks and its look like hidden from the city. Legend said couple comes here to enjoy their love. But also legend said there is divorce beach across the love beach and if you walk further you actually reach the ocean. It is not good to swim because water is so strong and ocean will pull you in, maybe that’s why beach get the name divorce beach. Anyway, view is stunning especially at sunset so definitely I recommend lovers and divorce beach.

If you still have time while go back to the ship, you can go climbing on top of the hills next to the Cabo. You don’t need a guide for that, just follow the path. Sun scream is absolutely mandatory, and my advice is, go afternoon because it’s very sunny and demanding during the day.

If you are choose to stay more days in Cabo, I know some ships do overnight like my ship did , you can find very cheap hotel and stay for one night and have night life out of the ship and enjoy live bands music and nice time. One place close to Cabo is bigger city and its called San Jose Cabo about 40 minutes driving from Cabo where you can explore and find some interesting 18th-century historical architecture facts about both places.

Shopping is mandatory here because they made nice cotton t-shirt, pants, shoes and dresses.

Fishing here is the best in the world . Fresh tuna you can literally buy on the street and some areas smell on the fish. Also sea lions follow the fishing boats and you can see fishing man feed them all the time.

To conclude, the famous fishing place in Mexico is definitely place to travel.

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Kabo San Lukas

Kabo San Lukas

Ako odlučite da putujete i uživate u pecanju tunjevine ili prosto da jedete dobru Meksičku hranu ili ste pristalica penjanja i želite da vidite jednu od najatraktivnijih Meksičkih rivijera onda definitivno preporučujem Kabo San Lukas.

Kabo je malo mesto sa centrom grada i sa dosta mesta za posetiti ili istražiti. Ove možete doživeti divno iskustvo radeći razne ture kao što su gledanje kitova ili plivanje s delfinima ili odlazak na ljubavnu plažu.

Moja prva poseta Kabo san Lukasu je bila sa brodom, i ovo je luka gde vas mali brod odvozi sa kruzera do terminala (pristane se malo dalje od obale zbog plitkosti mora). Pogled na obalu npr. sa kruzera je apsolutno zadivljujući. Ovo mesto me jako podseća na Veneciju , Italija zbog toga što mali čamci i mali brodići odlaze i dolaze non stop i marine za jahte koje su usidrene svuda okolo grada.

Ja sam veoma srećna zbog toga što moj Meksički prijatelj živi ovde pa sam ja s njim obišla mnoga mesta i videla više nego samo običan turist.

Kada se iskrcate sa broda , odmah tu se nalaze mnoge radnje dostupne za kupovinu raznih suvenira, posebno ručne proizvodnje , što čini ovo mesto i jako posebnim. WiFi Internet možete naći u svakom baru ili restoranu ali ja sam imala tel cel Meksički broj i nisam imala potrebu za WiFi konekcijom. Mnogo barova i restorana je upravo locirano na samom ulazu u grad ali ako skrenete desno, možete naći mnogo mirnije mesto za sesti , za popiti margaritu ili poručiti jako poznate fahitas. Želela bih vam preporučiti moje omiljeno mesto ovde. To je Kapetan Toni restoran (http://captaintonys.restaurantwebexperts.com/). Ne tako daleko od ovog restorana nalazi se tržni centar iza znaka Kabo gde možete napraviti odlične slike.

Pre nego što dođete do tržnog centra , vodeni taksi se nalazi na svakih 10 koraka tako da možete izabrati bilo koju turu želite. Moj prijatelj Marlon i ja smo izabrali gledanje kitova.

Veoma jednostavna tura od dva i po sata i košta samo 20 dolara po osobi. Momak sa malim čamcem nas je odveo na otvoreno more i onda je naša avantura počela. Uglavnom, mi smo „jurili“ kitove . Interesantno zar ne? Moj prijatelj mi je objasnio da kitovi izlaze na površinu vode iz dubine mora onda kad im treba vazduh i pre nego izrone na površinu oni izbacuju ostatak vode iz pluća što se vidi pre samog izlaska kita na površinu i kada vidite to „prskanje vodom“ onda čamac se okreće i dolazi bliže tom mestu jer imate samo nekoliko sekundi vremena da dođete bliže da vidite kita kad izroni. Da, osećala sam se veoma uzbuđeno u tom momentu, ali kada sam videla koliko su u stvari veliki a ja sam bila samo u malom čamcu, prva misao je bila u mojoj glavi šta ako kit udari čamac? Zapravo, to se nikad pre nije dogodilo, zato što su kitovi veoma oprezni i izbegavaju udaranje u čamac, i zato sam rekla vi ih „jurite“. To je bilo jako zanimljivo iskustvo i htela bih to ponoviti još jednom. Voda u Kabo san Lukasu je hladnija nego u drugim mestima Meksika i najbolje vreme za gledanje kitova je u pravo zima.

Jednom sam jela ručak na lido restoranu ( 10 sprat na brodu) i ljudi su odjednom počeli da odlaze na otvorenu palubu. Navodno, neko je primetio kita da pliva okolo broda , ali najzanimljivija činjenica je da je to bio beba kit sa mamom. Plivali su okolo i bilo je jako prijatno za videti tako nešto.

Drugo mesto koje bih želela da preporučim da posetite je ljubavna plaža. Opet, mali vodeni taksi , kao u Veneciji, odvesti će vas do ljubavne plaže. Razlog zašto je ova plaža dobila ovakvo ime je zato što se nalazi između dve velike stene i izgleda skriveno kad se pogleda iz grada. Legenda kaže da parovi dolaze ovde da uživaju svojoj ljubavi. Ali legenda kaže da je preko puta ljubavne plaže i plaža razvod i ako odšetate dalje dolazite do okeana. Ovde nije dobro mesto za plivanje zato što su morske struje veoma jake i ako uđete u vodu, okean će vas povući na pučinu i možda baš zato ova plaža je dobila svoje ime plaža razvod. Bilo kako bilo, istinito ili ne, pogled je divan ovde pogotovo za vreme zalaska sunca pa stoga preporučujem odlazak na ljubavnu i razvod plažu.

Ako još imate vremena do povratka na brod ,možete da odete na planinarenje na vrh brda pored samog Kabo San Lukasa. Za ovo vam ne treba vodič, samo pratite stazu. Zaštita protiv sunca je obavezna i moj savet je da odete posle podne jer je sunce veoma jako u toku dana.

Ako npr. želite da ostanete duže u Kabo san Lukasu , znam da neki brodovi imaju noćenje u Kabu, tako da možete da nađete neki jeftin hotel i platite prenoćište i uživate u noćnom životu ovde van broda i da doživite pravo iskustvo meksičke muzike kroz lokalne uživo bendove. Jedno mesto blizu samog Kabo mesta je malo veći grad i zove se San Hoze Kabo i on je negde oko 40 minuta vožnje od Kaba gde možete istražiti i naći neke od istorijskih činjenica i arhitekturu iz 18 veka za oba mesta.

Kupovina je obavezna ovde jer se sve proizvodi od domaćeg meksičkog 100% pamuka i odeća i majice i pantalone i haljine pa čak i obuća.

Pecanje ovde je najbolje na svetu. Svežu tunjevinu možete bukvalno kupiti na ulici i neki delovi grada mirišu na ribu. Takođe morski lavovi prate ribarske čamce i možete da vidite ribare kako ih hrane non stop.

Da zaključim moju priču , najpoznatije ribarsko mesto u Meksiku je definitivno vredno za videti i posetiti.

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