Big-city
sophistication; 30 minutes from downtown San Diego-, the world’s
busiest border; North America’s most visited city; the world’s most-shopped street; day trips from Southern California: jai alai, the world’s fastest game; two major bullrings; greyhound racing; sport-book betting; golf; a world-class cultural center with OMNIMAX theater, anthropological museum, galleries and performing arts theater; One of Latin America’s only wax museums; Mexitlan park, with 200 scale models of Mexico’s most famous sites; duty-free shopping; gourmet restaurants of every nationality; natural, hot-sulfur-springs spa; convention capital; International airport; and so much more. |
Tranquil
fishing- industry and cruise-ship port; center of Mexico’s wine country;
winery tours and tasting: home of Carnaval, the closets Latin Mardi Gras to the U.S. and Baja California’s oldest tourist event; the location of La Bufadora, a 60-foot sea geyser; sport fishing; seaside golf; sea kayaking; sea caves; fish tacos and International cuisine; historic Rivera del Pacifico convention center; Laguna Hanson; mountain camping; Todos Santos Island and Todos Santos Bay marine life; regattas; off- road racing; Russian settlers; classical music; marina; and so much more… |
MEXICALI
GATEWAY TO THE CRYSTAL
CORRIDOR
State capital of
Baja California’s; industrial, agricultural and livestock center; the
finest Chinese food this side of San Francisco; the state’s performing-arts theater; modern shopping centers; discos; bullring; city park and zoo; boiling mud lagoon; off-road racing; great hunting and fishing; and so much more. |
SAN FELIPE
GATEWAY TO THE SEA OF CORTEZ
Secluded beaches; small- town
flavor; warm, quaint and unspoiled; winter snowbird
center; shrimp capital of Baja California; big beaches; amazing tide Swings; water sports; sportfishing center; numerous cave painting; ecological tours; valley of the Giants with 50-foot cardon cactuses; seaside hot springs; beach camping; San Pedro Martir mountain range with 10,126- feet peak; and so much more. |
SAN DIEGO
Foro participants
may wish to pass some pleasant non-conference days in
San Diego or Imperial County just across the border from Mexicali. Calexico is the U.S. town bordering Mexicali. Just a few miles north begins the vast Anza-Borrego Desert, always beautiful, but especially so in March when the spring wildflowers and cactus bloom. San Diego is a two-hour drive west on I-8 from Calexico. Visitors to San Diego must see the world-famous San Diego Zoo, located in beautiful Balboa Park. Many museums are also located in Balboa Park. Of course, visitors must see the local beaches, shop and stroll in La Jolla, and dine in the historic downtown Gaslamp District. Trolleys depart downtown for the international border to enable easy shopping on Avenida Revolucion in Tijuana. |