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News Article
Date: 9/2/2013
Historically, international medical travel has meant that a patient leaves from a less developed country and travels to a highly developed country for services unavailable in their home country. The United States has often been the recipient of money spent on such medical travel. However, as medical care in the U.S. has become more complicated, more costly and less personal in recent years many Americans have joined the ranks of those searching for a better option. Medical tourism, or travel from a highly developed country to another area of the world for medical treatment, is becoming more popular for many reasons,...
Date: 8/31/2013
Juliette arrived at Cabo San Lucas, Todos Santos, San Jose del Cabo and all the way up to La Paz this Wednesday night and its full force could be felt around midnight through early morning. People in San Jose del Cabo were much luckier as the storm only brought some wind...
News Article
Date: 8/30/2013
Todos Santos is a small artist, fishing and agricultural village about 40 minutes north of Cabo San Lucas via Federal Highway 19. Todos Santos was named one of Mexico’s Pueblos Mágicos (Magical Towns) in 2006. A new mega project called “Playa Santos” has been proposed just south of Todos Santos. The project is presented by a Mexican real estate development corporation called MIRA, a subsidiary of the Colorado-based real estate investment firm Black Creek Group.
The land acquired by MIRA and Black Creek Group totals 414 hectares (1,025 acres) and spans both the west side of Highway 19 to the coastline, including...
News Article
Date: 8/27/2013
For a yacht enthusiast, yacht spotting can be an addictive hobby. Enthusiasts track and plot routes. They photograph and blog about it. Entire websites are devoted to it. However it doesn’t take a yacht expert to be blown away by the sighting of a luxury mega yacht the size of an NFL football field. Just ask anyone who wanders the Cabo San Lucas marina.
Cabo San Lucas attracts some of the most impressive yachts in North America. Some come for a just a few days while others stay a month or more. Some dock in the marina, stern to stern with other...
News Article
Date: 8/26/2013
From November 1st through November 3rd, 2013, ''Cabo Loves Yoga'' presents a three day festival celebrating yoga life. The event will feature outdoor yoga practice, lots of live music and fresh organic local cuisine, as well as three of the most talented yogi's of Mexico; Andrea Borbolla, Baptiste Marceau, and Amado Cavazos.
This first annual yoga gathering will also feature key note speaker, Stacey Lei Krauss, of International Elite Nike Trainer. Guests are invited to take their yoga mats outside for beach front yoga sessions with some of the best yoga instructors, after fresh organic meals in the breathtaking surroundings of sunshine...
News Article
Date: 8/24/2013
Investing in Real Estate in Mexico has never been easier, safer and advantageous if you hire a licensed and qualified Realtor that looks out for your best interests.
Your investment can be risky, complicated and a bad experience if you decide to use a pseudo Realtor that doesn’t care about you and is only looking to make a juicy commission.
There are people that do Real Estate as amateurs; they don’t invest the time, money and effort to be licensed experts. They meet people and try to sell them properties without really knowing what they are showing, if it’s safe or if...
News Article
Date: 8/17/2013
The Los Cabos Billfish Tournament, and its winning purse of $750,000, will take place October 15-19, 2013 in San Lucas. What differentiates this sport fishing tournament, celebrating its 15th year, from the other major angler competitions in this area, is the scoring. In the Billfish Tourney, cash and prizes are given to the fishing teams that catch and release the most billfish during the three days out at sea.
Other categories of the Billfish contest are money awards for the biggest catches of marlin, tuna, wahoo and dorado. The four most popular fish in the Sea of Cortez and southern Baja California...
News Article
Date: 8/16/2013
Diverse, colorful and magical like the land that it inhibits, our artistic input is a product of the natural inclination of Mexicans, throughout the ages, to adorn life with art.
Folk art is one of the facets of Mexican culture that most serves to identify its people, a source of pride for the majority of Mexicans and something which we can be content to match against any good produced by other countries and cultures in the world.
Getting in contact with this theme implies touching one of the most sensitive nerves of Mexican idiosyncrasy. It is also, however, the basis for a serious...
News Article
Date: 8/13/2013
The 2014 Dakar Rally has already received over 450 applications from all over the world for the grueling 14 day off-road race that begins in Rosario, Argentina on January 5, 2014 and traverses through Bolivia and ends in Valparaiso, Chile on January the 18th. The amount of applicants is a figure closely hovering around the record set in 2012. ''Above and beyond the front of the race, which is reserved for professionals, the Dakar is essentially designed with enthusiasts in mind; those who thrive in open space and adventure, explained David Castera, event sporting director. ''It is nevertheless, essential to be...
News Article
Date: 8/12/2013
Famed ocean explorer, film-maker and conservationist Jacques Cousteau called the Sea of Cortez the “World’s Aquarium.” Iconic novelist John Steinbeck described it as “ferocious with life”. The Sea of Cortez, year-round home to an incredible variety of marine life, also plays host to migratory species such as whales, sea turtles and Manta rays. Tourists flock to Cabo San Lucas in the winter months to watch our most famous marine visitors, the Humpback and Gray whales, frolic and play with their newborn calves in the vibrant waters of the Mar de Cortez.
And now, possibly in as little as two years, there will...