Bootleg Tequila and Spring Break Shenanigans

Todos Santos

After the big city of La Paz, we headed to the far more tranquil town of Todos Santos. Set amidst quaint art and coffee shops along with a charming cathedral at its centre, it´s not difficult to see how it earned the name All Saints.

Erik at one of the colourful town squares in Todos Santos.

It was actually into one of these trinket shops that Erik and I were lured by a very friendly salesman. After showing us the superior shinyness of his jewellery items, he could see that our attention was waning, and decided to up the ante. It was then that he took us to the back of the jewellery store and lifted a curtain to reveal a 20 litre vat of his home-made tequila. He assured us that this was a special organic reserve made only in his small home village and promptly poured us each a double shot. Despite it being only 11am, we downed it and were met with the smooth, delicious taste of a truly superior tequila. It went down easier than a Mexican hooker at the Pension California Hotel. We then promptly filled an empty 500 ml water bottle with our new favourite tequila and headed out to the buzzing town of Cabo San Lucas.

Drinking tequila from home-made shot glasses (cut from the top of water bottles). Classy!

Grrr! Erik trying on a kitschy Lucho Libre Mexican wrestling mask in Todos Santos.

Cabo San Lucas

Just a short 2-hour bus trip away, Cabo San Lucas couldn´t possibly be more different to Todos Santos.  This buzzing tourist trap hit us like a cheap shot of Mezcal with its crowded beaches and heady nightlife. You couldn´t swing a burro here without hitting an American tourist or someone trying to sell you hats/jewellery/t-shirts/drugs/a kidney.

El Squid Roe restaurant where the waiters dance on tables to Achy Breaky Heart.

Having said that, the beachfront is one of the most beautiful we've seen. Once you look past the many parasailers, jet skis and luxury yachts, there´s a spectacular peninsula called Land´s End where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortez. Here you´ll also find two secluded beaches (named Lover´s and Divorce Beach respectively) along with the famous El Arco rock formation.

The stunning El Arco seen from the prow of our glass-bottom boat.

There´s also some great snorkelling to be had here.

We´ve spent the last three days in this vibrant town and it´s been full of beautiful scenery and some exciting events. Not the least of which were some rather saucy shenanigans from the hundreds of students here on spring break. So before I go, I´d like to share a few photos of a wet t-shirt competiton we had the dubious pleasure of seeing at a classy beach bar called the Mango Deck. These are some of the tamer shots (censored for our more sensitive viewers). And in case you´re wondering, the first girl from the right won.

You go girl!

And on that note, I´ll say goodbye for now.

Salud!