Cacti on the Beach

The trip to Central Baja was a treat - one stunning landscape after the other from jagged high mountains, parched xeriscape with million cacti stretching right up to the beaches. Beaches that ranged from sandy white to none at all right off the high cliffs.

The day to day life in small towns offered its own cornucopia of colorful buildings, dusty streets, old cars blaring promotions from large loudspeakers atop their roofs and street vendors selling weird handicrafts, multi-colored candy, trinkets and lucha libre masks.

Here is a collection of some pictures from the area around Loreto set to this song that played on a loop for hours at end every day on the hotel's TV channel making annoucement about tortilla soup making classes or everybody's favorite - margarita making classes.