Region

Baja

Whales in La Paz, wine in Valle de Guadalupe.

Baja California · Baja California Sur

Baja California

Wine country, fish tacos, and a border-state edge worth learning to read

Cruise-port fish-taco capital and the gateway to the wine valley

Mexico's main wine region: real bottles, design-forward tables, dusty roads

Desert meeting two seas, whales in winter, and Mexico's calmest big-name coast

Pacific lagoon where gray whales come to calve and nudge your boat

A protected desert island off La Paz with sea lions and empty coves

An unhurried state capital that's the launch pad for the Sea of Cortez

The peninsula's oldest mission town on a protected marine park

The resort corridor from San José to Cabo San Lucas, for better and worse

A shallow, glass-flat turquoise bay near La Paz with daily visitor caps

A desert-meets-Pacific arts town gone semi-gentrified but still worth it