{"id":4284,"date":"2018-12-28T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2020-08-15T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T15:49:09","slug":"baja-california-mexicali-to-ensenada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/?p=4284","title":{"rendered":"Baja California- Mexicali to Ensenada."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although my time in Mexicali was a relatively short one I managed to find a nice hotel with an excellent restaurant and, for the first time ever, I used Uber to get me there. The transaction was smooth and professional, saving me \u00a310 on what the airport taxi would have charged.<\/p>\n<p>From Mexicali I took a bus to Ensenada. My original plan had been to take the 15-hour run direct from Mexicali to Guerrero Negro, but I just couldn&#8217;t face such an epic journey so close to my recent 13-hour flight from the UK. Two journeys, a 4-hour and a 9-hour, seemed like a more civilised option.<\/p>\n<p>In Ensenada I went for the cheapest accommodation I could find, excluding hostels, and ended up plumping for a home stay. Unfortunately the owners wife had recently passed away. It was therefore not the most pleasant of places to stay, under the circumstances.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ensenada, 108km south of the border between Mexico and the USA, is Tijuana\u2019s hedonistic cosmopolitan sister. The city has a quirky mix of just-off-the-boat cruise shippers, drive-by tourists from California, visitors from mainland Mexico and seen-it-all locals. In case you\u2019ve forgotten you\u2019re in Mexico (what with all those US dollars and English menus), just look up: a Mexican flag, so large it\u2019s probably visible from space, flutters proudly over the tourist zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I really enjoyed my day walking around down town Ensenada, which included a visit to an extremely interesting museum &#8211; Instituto Nacional De Anthropologia E Historia. Check out this interesting (YouTube) video <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QloMOOG-bbE\">How to feed the world<\/a>. It highlights the challenges we face feeding an increasing world population and how we might address the challenge going forward. That evening I even enjoyed an excellent meal at a local Lebanese restaurant &#8211; delicious.<\/p>\n<p>Next stage: Guerrero Negro &#8211; whale watching.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4286\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4286\" src=\"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_6085.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4286\" height=\"591\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_6085.jpg 500w, https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_6085-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexicali to Ensenada to Guerrero Negro.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0214-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4288\" height=\"950\" width=\"2445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0214-1.jpg 2445w, https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0214-1-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0214-1-768x298.jpg 768w, https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0214-1-1024x398.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2445px) 100vw, 2445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0224.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4282\" height=\"2448\" width=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0224.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0224-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0224-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0224-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0224-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although my time in Mexicali was a relatively short one I managed to find a nice hotel with an excellent restaurant and, for the first time ever, I used Uber to get me there. The transaction was smooth and professional, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/?p=4284\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[196,195],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","tag-baja-california","tag-ensenada"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}