Cabo San Lucas - Seaside Resort

Having grown up in an isolated setting at the southern end of the 1700km/1056mi-long Carretera Transpeninsular, Cabo San Lucas comprises just a harbour and a number of houses, shops, restaurants and hotels. It is a really excellent centre for all forms of watersports. Boats run trips to El Arco, a rock arch hollowed out by the sea at the point where the Gulf of California and Pacific Ocean meet. The beaches and bays on either side of the headland (El Médano, Amor, Sol, Santa María, Colorado, etc.) are individually very distinctive, characterised by their varied types of sand and rock. While some have calm waters, others are pounded by huge breakers; fish abound everywhere. Among the many enticing diving grounds within easy reach near by perhaps the most fascinating are those around the extraordinary submarine "sand cascade". At another site nodules of manganese litter the seabed.