The Baja blog

Mexico began it’s independece fight on September the 16 of 1810 and each September the streets of all the country are dressed with the colors of the flag.

In San Jose del Cabo the kiosk and the local park presents mexican music every weekend, now more than ever we have mariachis and great performers in there, the look and feel of everything here smells like Mexico. If you want to experience or to feel the whole mexican experience September is a great opportunity for it.

The best part of the celebration takes place the night of the 15th when the local president, governor and even the president of Mexico scream to the people waiting outside Viva Mexico like the father of this nation did  196 years ago.

This hurricane really was unpredictable, first it was going to hit between Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, then it turns out to the pacific side, then it turns in direction of San Jose del Cabo, finally it went to the sea of Cortez and finally it hit Baja on the Eastcape, on Los Barriles. 

Los Barriles is a small population, it has a few (but very good) inns, a lot of fishermen and great beaches and beauty in Baja style, a lot of palapas, palm trees and houses were moved by the powerful hurricane, a lot of palm trees were taken out of the ground from its roots, but no human lives were lost. 

Natural rivers grown, and for some time the roads between cities were impossible to use, populations on the eastcape and La Paz lost electricity, phones and water. The hurricane still alive hit La Paz and more populations of the north of the state with less strength but still powerful winds. 

In a short time most populations (except Los Barriles) got the services back, the internet was the last thing we got (yesterday at night) and everything at least in La Paz, Todos Santos, Pescadero, Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo are back to normal, and the government is implementing an emergency plan in Los Barriles. For the experience people here have seems like there’s nothing to be sorry about (human lives) anyway the damages to properties specially in Los Barriles are high, specially since a lot of constructions there has palm tree roofs. 

There’s another hurricane near Baja, is the hurricane Ileana and is a category 3 hurricane, seems that it won’t hit Baja in any point, but so far we have some clouds here in Cabo and yesterday we had some rain in La Paz, nothing to worry about. If you want to know a little bit more about this hurricane you can see this page, if you are coming to Cabo don’t worry, according to every single data we have checked this hurricane will not hit Cabo in anyway or Baja, it will run aside and bring a little bit of rain. 

Any small green produce a great effect in Baja, our desert suddenly turns into a beautiful green, this kind of images can be see all the way from Cabo San Lucas and La Paz, and in all main roads in Baja. It is really amazing, for the people living here, to see this color in the always yellow roads.

The hangman restaurant is a simple and good place to go have dinner in San Jose del Cabo, it serves a lot of different meat tacos and quesadillas and the environment is really nice. Almost all nights they have live music from a single guy playing piano to a couple of guys playing percusions to a group playing smooth music. 

The staff speaks english, the prices are low and the food is good, it’s located near the main road in San Jose del Cabo, around a Bank, to get here probably your best option is to ask the locals about it’s location everyone in San Jose knows the Hangman restaurant by it’s name in spanish (El ahorcado).