Cabo Color: Traveling in Baja Sur, Mexico

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Susan Kime

If our traveling lives are fueled by searches for sanctuary, contentment, and adventure, past arguably, fewer activities uncover arsenic overmuch astir those dynamics arsenic bash our question choices -- and the destinations we pick. Such choices accidental overmuch astir manner and wellness investing preferences. Now, post-pandemic, the emerging effect is simply a tendency to put successful greater idiosyncratic and household attunement successful presumption of longer stays, larger rooms, entree to culinary and yacht adventure. Because of these things, Cabo San Lucas remains a hugely fashionable destination, particularly successful this still-capricious economy.

Hacienda Encantada Resort

The astir palmy resorts, similar those at Mexico Grand Hotels, supply exceptional amenities (private chefs, municipality car services, yacht usage, dedicated concierges) and person a balanced plan template wherever the destination combines sanctuary, history, and adventure, and wherever architectural and interior designs bespeak the spiritual, and historical uniqueness of the area.

We were gratified to acquisition this tone of Mexico successful these dimensions, arsenic seen done the perceptual tract of 2 resorts, some portion of Mexico Grand Hotels and Resorts. For astir a week, we experienced 2 precise divers properties that some bespeak and refract the tone of Mexico. One was the peaceful, luxurious Hacienda Encantada, 1 that provided not lone elite edifice facilities, larger Villas, the exceptional Milagro Spa, a multi-colored children’s country extracurricular with swimming pools, ablution pools, a children’s speechmaking and enactment room, and a unrecorded turtle habitat. Hacienda Encantada besides has an Owners Club, wherever mores spacious member-owned residences let guests and their families to ain property, availing themselves of yacht and play adventures, assorted cuisines, and each else.

Marina Fiesta Resort & Spa

Second, was the Marina Fiesta, a edifice close successful the mediate of Cabo. Marina Fiesta, the lively, much municipality resort, connected the Marina, is besides connected the Marina’s Golden Zone, wherever determination are galore restaurants close below, adjacent the entranceway to Marina Fiesta. Plus, adjacent doorway besides the Puerto Paraiso Mall -- connected Luxury Avenue, nary less. And Marina Fiesta besides has an Owner’s Club.

Susan Kime - Pool and Ocean Blue, Hacienda Encantada

Both resorts seemed to illuminate 2 2023 large question trends: first, some resorts specify the re-emergence of the all-inclusive getaway, allowing the traveling household oregon families not to interest astir paying and tipping each clip they devour and drink. Second, some resorts’ locations to let families to reconnect done household reunions and done household celebrations -- birthdays, weddings, anniversaries by having memorable venues that let for these needful, celebratory experiences. For the galore who visit, determination is access, from some resorts to a tiny Chapel, truthful if the traveler and household privation to spell to Sunday Church, and perchance different times also, tin beryllium arranged.

The balancing of these 2 Cabo experiences provided diverse, needful question experiences. Our archetypal was astatine Hacienda Encantada, to us, defining a benignant of enchanted peace. In walking the resort, you could perceive birdsong and the dependable of the ocean, but not overmuch else. On our archetypal evening, we were taken to the apex of the property, 1 wherever wedding venues often took place.

Hacienda Encantada Resort

The views from determination were exceptional, stretching from the Sea of Cortez we saw waves crashing connected rocks below, and beyond, to the celebrated Los Arcos stone formations a fewer miles away. From that precocious vantage point, we saw truthful much: the Hacienda Encantada residences, villas, and edifice buildings, the heavy bluish ocean, the turquoise edifice swimming pools, the grey greenish Saguaro, and Prickly Pear cactus, galore with Bougainvillea successful red, yellow, orangish nearby. Such fierce colour and contrast, particularly arsenic a vibrant orangish sunset, expressed the intense, colorful quality of Baja Sur.

Mexico Grand Hotels - Three Bedroom Residence

Our rooms were ample also, with heavy, Spanish designed furniture, an unmistakable Moorish accents. Outside our domicile, were vibrant colored couches with contrasting pillows. Our country opened retired to a grassy area, festooned with yellowish flowering vines and beyond that, a presumption of the ocean. At night, you could perceive the welcoming dependable of the ocean, with the scent of water spray filling the air. In the evening, we experienced a acquisition successful the past of Tequila making, astatine Museo de Tequila connected property.

Susan Kime - Marina Fiesta

But then, came our 2nd experience: we traveled a abbreviated region to Marina Fiesta -- a antithetic vibe entirely, lively, successful opposition to the pastoral serenity of Hacienda Encantada. One contrasted the other, making each much peculiar and arguably, much needful.

Mexico Grand Hotels - Marina Fiesta, meal astatine the Marina

Our question experiences astatine Marina Fiesta seemed, successful retrospect, similar a kaleidoscope of colorful activity. We had a luncheon cooking class, teaching america each however to marque Ceviche from caller snapper, on with different vegetables, we learned astir Mocktails astatine the Cielo Sky Bar, the barroom atop the Marina Fiesta, astatine sunset. We went connected a yacht excursion, and saw Los Arcos up close, we had an exceptional facial and hydrotherapy acquisition astatine the Amura Spa, we ate meal astatine Los Deseos, an exceptional edifice adjacent to Marina Fiesta, wherever the cook made Molcajete queso, a benignant of melted food with Tequila, combined successful a Molcajete container. A Molcajete is the Mexican mentation of a mortar and pestle. The 1 utilized astatine Los Deseos was heavy, carved retired of volcanic stone to support vigor for hours.

The past morning, earlier retired formation backmost to the United States, we sat outside, heard the brushed water roar, and saw birds picking their meal successful the damp earth. We thought of D.H. Lawrence, and a information of his 1927 question book, Mornings successful Mexico. Things person not changed much.

“Still, it is morning, and it is Mexico. The prima shines. But then, during the winter, it ever shines. It is pleasant to beryllium retired of doors and write, conscionable caller capable and conscionable lukewarm enough.

There is simply a small odor of carnations due to the fact that they are the nearest thing. And determination is simply a resinous odor of Ocote (Pine) wood, and a odor of coffee, and a faint odor of leaves… Because erstwhile each is said and done, Mexico has a faint, carnal scent of her own, arsenic each quality being has. And this is simply a curious, inexplicable scent, successful which determination are resin and perspiration and sunburned world …. among different things.”

And different things? To us, close now, it was the scent of tortillas, of thing being grilled, mixed with the pungent jasmine vine adjacent our suite. The scent operation was magic to Lawrence, and to us, adjacent with antithetic scents, it is magic now.