Planetsave

As the thatched roof on the airport suggests, a visit to Loreto entails a change in attitude as well as latitude. The sunny little fishing port on the Gulf of California retains the slow pace and small-town warmth that have all but vanished from a certain booming resort zone at the tip of the Baja California peninsula. Think of this as the anti-Cabo.

Don’t expect luxury hotels or riotous nightlife. People (including a surprising number of Europeans) come here to unwind and to drink in Baja’s stark beauty — a salt-rimmed cocktail of desert, mountains and sea. Set against the high, jagged Sierra de la Giganta, Loreto looks out on blue water dotted with arid islands straight from a Magritte painting.

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