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Ensenada and the surrounding area offers a wide variety of entertainment and points of interest that are easily accessible and should not be missed. This page offers a list of the many excursions available during your trip to Ensenada. This list of excursions is long enough to keep you coming back for more. |
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| La Bufadora
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La Bufadora is
a geophysical phenomenon that attracts thousands of visitors. La Bufadora or
"blow hole" produces a spray of water that reaches hieghts of 100feet in the
air, crashing down on visitors that want a close encounter. plenty of
additional diversions will be found at La Bufadora, including stores, restaurants, a
visitor's center and Ensenada's best scuba diving excursion operators. La bufadora offers several hours of entertainment in the way of sightseeing, shopping, eating and drinking. This is also the place for you scuba divers as services and tours are offered daily to see beautiful seascapes of blue water, rocky reefs and marine life like nowhere else in Baja California Norte. To get to La Bufadora, just take the main
boulevard through Ensenada and follow the La Bufadora signs south of town.
The 35 minute ride takes you |
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| San Pedro Mártir National Park | Houses the UNAM
observatory.
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| Constitución de 1857 | National Park
where you will find the "Hanson Lagoon"
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| Sierra de Juárez - Rancheros | Consisting of
a collection of ranches, of which, the most visited is "El Rancho Góngora" and
"El Pino Colorado".
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| The Vineyards of Santo Tomás | The mission of
"Santo Tomás de Aquino" was founded in 1791, and its internationally well known
place for its vineyards and the "Bocana de Santo Tomás Beach", which is
considered to be the perfect place for outdoor activities, by many visitors.
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| San Quintín | There's
nothing like like the tranquility of a small community. San Quintín offers visitors
activities like hunting, sport fishing, sailing, to name a few. Visitors will also
find missions from the colonial era, making San Quintín a historical site and was once an
English Settlement from the nineteenth century. Additional things to see are
rupestrian paintings and extinct volcanoes. Visitors should not miss tasting fresh sea
food in this place known as the "Capital of the Clam" as well as bird watching,
and other attractions.
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| Real del Castillo | This place is
considered historical since it was the Baja California government seat from 1872 to
1882. It was also a mining center where gold was found. Real del Castillo is
an interesting place to visit.
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| Vallle de Guadalupe | The mission of
Dominican Friars was established in 1834 in Valle de Guadalupe. Don't miss the
community museum, featuring life as it was in the beginning of the century. Also in the
beginning of the century, Russians settled in this place and visitors can still admire
buildings from that period. Valle de Guadallupe is also the home of many Baja
vineyards.
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| El Alamo | This is a
mining center, dating from the 19th century, from back in the gold rush days. The
old mines of El Alamo are known to still contain traces of gold in those old mines.
Visitors to this place will find attractions such as rupestrian paintings, historical
constructions, windmills and vestiges from the nineteenth century.
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| Meling Ranch | It is called
San José or "of the Melings" and is located on the highway to the San Pedro
Mártir Ovservatory. This ranch house was built in 1912 with Adobe and Wood
walls and was used to supply food to the mine named "Socorro". This is one of
the few ranches that can still be visited whenever visiting the San Pedro Mártir mountain
range. It currently has cabins, a hotel with a swimming pool, a restaurant
and a Bar.
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| Cataviña | Cataviña
offers a beautiful scenic view of the Desert. This is the only desert in the world
that has a variety of uncommon flora and fauna. It is the place where the mysterious
cirio cactus (huge boojum trees) grow together with the cardon cactuses, and elephant
trees. Cataviña also features caverns with rupestrian paintings, rockworks of
pre-historical art and spectacular formations of natural rocks and extinct volcanoes.
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