Todos Santos

This week, we rented a car to visit Todos Santos, a small town about an hour south of La Paz.  Renting a car in Mexico can be fairly inexpensive and the road is a highway between La Paz and Cabo making it easy to travel. It’s a small town with lots of little art galleries, shops and restaurants.  It’s also home to the Hotel California which we didn’t actually visit. We searched for a restaurant Robyn (our new volunteer) had read about on trip advisor. For a while we drove around and but just managed to see the sights and the restaurant remains a mystery.  

After wandering through Todos Santos, we went to Playa Cerritos a bit further south. Unlike the beaches in La Paz, there are waves here for surfing and swimming.  It’s easy to get to the beach and it’s just a right turn off the highway down a dirt road once you see signs for the beach.  Parking was free and beach access is easy. There is a small cafe/restaurant type thing on the beach here and they have a few places to rent surfboards.  There were also some guys paragliding on the beach.  

I should note that since we had a car, we took advantage of stopping at McDonalds and Starbucks for a change from tacos.  We also ventured to the Mexican Wal-Mart to see what it was all about! I’d post a blog about it but it wasn’t really that exciting. They were blasting the Christmas tunes though so it was nice to hear some holiday cheer!

-Nicole