San Ignacio, Mexico Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Leaving Guerrero Negro, the highway heads inland again for the hottest, driest stage of the journey, across the Desierto Vizcaíno. In the midst of this landscape, SAN IGNACIO comes as an extraordinary relief. At the very centre of the peninsula, this is an oasis in every sense of the word; not only green and shaded but, with some of the few colonial buildings in Baja, a genuinely attractive little town that just may entice you to stay longer than a night's stopover. The settlement was founded by the Jesuits (and named after their founder) in 1728, but the area had long been populated by the indigenous … more »