Native Trails MyTrails 2025 14 Baja California 1 Sandboarding in the dunes of Cuervitos Duration: 02:00 h · Level: Difficult The Cuervitos Dunes near the USMexican border offer you a very special experience – sandboarding, a sport not very well known yet. On a modified snowboard, you glide down the high sand dunes. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced snowboarder, you should absolutely not miss this fun. And if you are already an advanced snowboarder, you can look forward to many take-offs for spectacular jumps. 2 City Tour in Mexicali Duration: 02:00 h · Level: Easy The second-largest city of the Baja California is slowly approaching the one million mark. With the Colorado delta and the USA constituting limits to its expansion east- and northwards, the town lives on the cultivation of cotton and on international industrial companies that profit from the reliable Mexican workers and the low salaries. Visit the Plaza de Toros Calafia, the adjacent Town Hall Square with the “Monumento La Ciudad que Capturó el Sol,” and the Casa de la Cultura, a historical building of 1915. The autonomous university includes a small museum that exhibits remnants of various epochs and noteworthy moments of the city’s history. 3 Visit the Chinese Quarters in Mexicali Duration: 01:30 h · Level: Medium In the early 20th century, several thousand Chinese came to Mexico to work for the Colorado River Land Company and build an irrigation system in the delta of the large river. For political and economic reasons, many of the foreign workers did not return home, but settled down in a neighborhood of Mexicali. During the prohibition, “La Chinesca” was the borough of Mexicali where nearly all casinos, bars, brothels, and opium dens were located. The summer heat and the necessary discretion led to the creation of a large tunnel and smuggling system that linked the basements of the establishments and extended as far as neighboring Calexico (USA). You explore the remainders of this system on a tour and learn details about the “blood brotherhood” of Asian people in Mexicali, who keep to their cultural traditions still today, albeit enriched with the Mexican style of life. 4 City Tour of Tecate Duration: 01:00 h · Level: Easy You visit Tecate, a small Mexican town amidst a mountainous desert region. Although located directly south of the US border, Tecate is fairly placid – enjoy the everyday activities in Parque Miguel Hidalgo, the zócalo of the town, and enter one of Tecate’s most famous bakeries to taste the sweet pastry and hearty bread, which are formed by hand and baked in old brick ovens according to long-standing traditions. Your tour ends in the Museo Comunitario de Tecate, where you get additional information about the history of the town and the Kumeyaay Indians. 5 Visit of the Brewery Tecate Duration: 02:00 h · Level: Easy Next to tequila, beer is the most popular alcoholic drink in Mexico. One of the two major companies presently dominating the market is Cervecería Tecate in the North of the Baja California. Looking back on 60 years of history, it is a brewery rooted in tradition. Its output is more than 20 million liters (40 million pints) of beer a month. The bottles and cans show a black eagle (formerly against the background of Tecate Peak) and “Tecate” in the classic, red script. A guided tour through the plant and the small museum, followed by a degustation, gives you a vivid impression of the brewery and the beer. R Restaurants 1 Restaurant China House 2 Restaurant El Lugar de Nos 3 Restaurant Caesar's 4 Restaurant Chepil Cocina Mexicana 5 Restaurant Oryx Capital 6 Restaurant Villa Ortega's 7 Restaurant La Cocina de Doña Esthela 8 Restaurant Villa Marina Ensenada 9 Restaurant Manzanilla 10 Restaurant Yiyo's Mariscos 11 Restaurant Molino Viejo
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