Interesting Mexico Links
A trip to Baja California isn't a trip to South Southern California, it is a trip to another country. These links are not Trip project related but are about Mexico in general and primarily, Baja California. They are all very informative and fun to surf through. You can learn a lot about traveling in Mexico by going through them. Your experience will be more rewarding if you're more prepared. Click on the Underlined Text to go to the site. You will have to use your back button to get back here unless you get so engrossed that you forget where you were.
Baja Interactive Page This is a good source of information about Baja California.
Spanish for Travelers This is a place where you can learn a few useful words and phrases. (You should also take a look at the Mini-Spanish Language section of the team member handbook.)
Lonely Planet Overview of Mexico If the Baja Interactive Page is not enough, there is lots more here.
Map of Mexico If you haven't figured out where Mexico is yet or want a better map than the decorative one at the top of this page, or the other one on the site, click on this.
Mexican
Search Engine
If you want to look for things Mexican this one works
your
internet service provider has for use in the USA.
Read the News If you can read Spanish, you can read the online edition of El Mexicano, a Baja California Newspaper which is readily available from vendors in Ensenada.
Baja
State Tourism Site
This English language
web site maintained by the Baja California state government Tourism Secretariat
Sintesis TV:
This is a Mexican commercial site
that includes
a table in Spanish indicating the amount of time you will have to wait in
line to get back across the border right now. Check this one out at 10:00
a.m. some Saturday then at 6:00 p.m. the same day and you will understand why,
unlike the people you
see to the right, we find it prudent to leave for
home early. It took about an hour to cross the border at about
10:00 a.m. Saturday
morning in 2005. Later in the day, the wait is well over two hours.
The site suggests that the RIGHT LANES (derecho) will move faster than
the LEFT (Izquierdo.)
.
