Wanderlust World Wanderlust World Green Tortoise Adventure Treks offers a nine-day bus tour to Baja that leaves from San Francisco. Once south of the border, you'll stop at Hussong's Cantina in Ensenada for fish tacos and lime margaritas and, in Ojo de Liebre, the bus may stop for whale watching, if in season. After traveling all night, you'll arrive in Playa Escondida, where you'll spend four nights camping on the beach. Daytime activities include hiking, snorkeling, a coastline boat trip to a small fishing village, sea kayaking, or a mule ride into the mountains. On the final night you'll enjoy an authentically prepared Mexican meal at Rancho San Cosme. On the trip home, you'll stop to see cave paintings in Cataviña and do souvenir shopping in Ensenada. The cost for this tour, in 2010, was $599 plus $121 for food/parks.
Green Tortoise Adventure Travel
494 Broadway
San Francisco, CA 94133
800-867-8647
greentortoise.com
Baja Trek offers 14 bus tours to Baja. Cantina Crawl takes you bar-hopping, cantina sampling, and hard-core partying through Tijuana, Rosarito and Ensenada. This tour lasts 2 days and, in 2010, the cost was $35 plus $12 for the Food Fund. Whale Safari is a whale watching tour that lasts 7 days and costs $569 plus $82 for the Food Fund, in 2010. You can visit Baja's national parks, cantinas and mountains if you opt for the four-day Mountain Jam tour. In 2010, it cost $120 plus $35 for the Food Fund. If you want to see it all, choose the Total Experience Tour that lasts 21 days and costs $853 plus $181 for the Food Fund. Baja Trek offers vegetarian meals with group participation to keep the trip cost affordable. The Food Fund is used to provide about 70 percent of the meals, park admission, camping fees, and tolls. It does not cover meals while not camping. Buses run on 100 percent recycled vegetable oil.
Baja Trek
PO Box 72
Potrero, CA 91963
619-937-1546
bajatrek.com
San Diego Tours offers two tours to Baja. The all-day wine tour goes to Valle de Guadalupe, where you'll visit two wineries, Domeq and L.A. Cetto. Following the wine tasting you'll travel to Ensenada for a Mexican-inspired lunch and shopping. In 2010, the cost for this tour was $92.95 if booked online. A second tour, the Weekend Vacation Package, lasts three days and two nights and costs $357.95 per person, in 2010. This tour begins with a dinner cruise that leaves out of San Diego. The next morning, a bus picks you up from your hotel and you head down the Baja coastline with stops in Rosarito to visit the Rosarito Beach Hotel, and Ensenada, where you'll go sightseeing, shopping, and lunch at the Casamar.
San Diego Tours
800-303-7197
sandiegotours.us