Cabo Handbook: La Paz to Cabo San Lucas

I made a trip to Cabo last year and found this book quite useful for planning and executing a trip. Do your homework before you go, read it and plan a tentative schedule of events and things to see and do and you will save valuable time when time is of the essence. A more appropriate title might be The Cape Region but it wouldn't have the name recognizability that Cabo does. Tourists tend to visit Cabo San Lucas or as it is known, Cabo, when they fly in. The book covers the whole Cape Region, including the Central Cape where you wil find small towns and if you are so inclined ,hiking trails in the Sierra de la Laguna. For the adventurous soul there is information about camp sites and details about the Canyons found in the Central Cape. The East Cape is only touched upon briefly unfortuantely. There is also a section on La Paz and the vicinity surrounding it.Other sections of the book include both Cabos, San Jose del Cabo and the more popular Cabo San Lucas. We stayed in a condo in San Jose del Cabo as our headquarters and found it quite pleasant and enjoyable. It was quite laid back. By comparison Cabo San Lucas was anything but. If tourist infested regions of Mexico are what you seek in a trip to Mexico than San Lucas is for you. A few visits was enough for me as I preferred the tranquility and slower pace of San Jose. In any event, the book lays out information for both, including The Corridor, which is the 18-mile stretch between San Jose and San Lucas. The book has maps detailing the various accessible beaches along The Corridor, including several surfing breaks on the reef. There are also several diving spots along The Corridor. Restaurants are also suggested but naturally food tastes are subjective and require some common sense and prior knowledge of the food of Baja's coast. The book also covers the West Cape which is not very developed but has the old charm of Mexico. There is lots to discover in the old towns. A major section is dedicated to Todos Santos which is a lushly-vegetated arroyo seco(dried river bed). I found this place to be very interesting , quaint yet quite charming with a bohemian-artist-flair to the town. It is an artist colony of sorts. Here you will find The Hotel California. Each section of the Cape Area features a history of the towns, places to eat, places to stay, including houses for rent, bed-and breakfasts, hostels, guesthouses, apartments,condos and the onmipresent saturation and expansion of hotels. There are also suggestions on things to do that are geared to the tourist, with addresses and maps. There are tips on money changing with locations of various ATM's, post offices, telephones etc. The tourist and party haven, Cabo San Lucas(this is what tourists think of as Cabo)has 30 pages out of 270 pages in the book dedicated to the hussle and bustle of Cabo. The same type of information is available for Cabo San Lucas or Cabo as the other regions, including sports and recreation, useful telephone information e

My family just returned from 2 weeks in Cabo. During this time we used the Moon guide (3rd ed.) extensively. We visited San Jose, Cabo SL, Todos Santos, and east cape as well as various remote points in between and found the book accurate every step of the way. This book is very well researched and complete - although pricing was a couple of years out of date. I assume the 4 th edition corrects that. This book is a "must have" for travelers to Cabo who want to do more than just stay in a pre-packaged all inclusive resort.

This proved to be an excellent guide book. It combined a little history, current culture and the all the basic maps and reviews you could ask for. I especially enjoyed the history, which went into some details around about how Cabo became what it is today. I spent a week traveling around Cabo between San Jose, La Paz and Todos Santos and the maps and reviews proved spot on (outside out of the fact that the dollar doesn't go as far as it used to and the prices were generally a little higher than quoted)!

This is a great book! My husband and I went to La Paz for a fish conference and found this guidebook invaluable! The restaurant recommendations were right on the mark. The famed 'best pizza in La Paz' the author recommended was true! I never thought of having pizza in Mexico, but it was great!! The maps are good..we used those a lot!! You must get this book if you are travelling to Cabo!

Back in 1996 I was looking to travel to Cabo for the first time. I was totally unfamiliar with the area and looking to read up on it. In searching the book stores I couldn't seem to find anything with more than a page or two talking about Cabo. Then I found it... the PERFECT guidebook-- "Cabo - La Paz to Cabo San Lucas". I can't even begin to tell you how helpful this book has been to me. It helped me choose a hotel on my first visit, a condo for my second visit, beaches to dive at, places to pick up groceries, etc. If it's in Cabo, it's in the book! The funny thing is that book has made many more trips to Cabo than I have! It travelled down there with my dad & his wife, it visited with my friend's parents, and it even went on a honeymoon down there with a couple from my church! Everyone raves about the book when they return. If you're going to Cabo, this is the only book you'll need for everything you'll want to know!