Sierra La Laguna Adventure

Think of this as a reset button for your soul: hiking and mountain biking Baja, Mexico’s brilliant seaside. Discovering timeless, back-of-beyond villages dabbed in rich, vibrant pastels, culture that spans millennia, if not, arguably, the best food on the planet.

Our Sierra de la Laguna Adventure neatly unfolds in and around the charming town of La Paz. A smart blend of beach tour, with ocean-side camping and dining, our rides bridge the 800-mile long Baja peninsula, (world’s second longest isthmus, twice Florida’s length): pedaling both the powerful Pacific-fronting side, as well as trails edging the warmer, calmer Sea of Cortez.

Baja’s Lower Peninsula exudes a genuinely rural Mexican feel: it is a refuge, in every sense of the word. We’ll scan long, beautiful bays, more shallow coves closer in, edged by bare shore. More often than not, only a lone wooden, whitewashed fishing shack lends any sense of human presence. Riding the ridges along the coast, we stop on a grey-green butte to catch a cool wind. Or the shifting light; so golden, so scrumptiously vivid the sunlight seems almost HD. Riding a track through the mountains, the Sierra de la Giganta, we catch sight of rare White Pelicans. Reaching the next plateau, looking down to the Gulf we behold the magnificent blow of a Grey whale; a few seconds later, the slowly raised fluke. It is a vision, a moment you will forever hold onto.

To experience both sides of this wild and fragile peninsula means miles of rolling trails, stunning desert outback around remote, centuries old adobe missions; lush Palm canyons that give way to blue-green lagoons and dune islands. We build out all this blue desert bliss with natural hot springs, ocean kayaking; and of course, a seat at some incredibly authentic Mexican cuisine.