An artists’ colony in Baja California
Todos Santos is a laid-back oasis that looks a bit out of place in the middle of the Mexican desert, said Lauren Viera in the Chicago Tribune. After driving for endless hours through the dusty terrain of Baja California Sur on Highway 19, a visitor who crosses the Tropic of Cancer will suddenly be surrounded by palm trees, art and crafts galleries, restaurants, and shops. Over the past 30 years, artists from mainland Mexico and the American Southwest have transformed this sleepy historic village into a thriving artists’ colony. They “aren’t the only ones drawn by Todos Santos’ spring-fed palm grove.” Gray whales love the “sweet water” flowing from the grove’s lagoons into the Pacific, and they graze and bathe here every winter. Some whales nuzzle “right up to the sand bar.” Several haciendas in town have been converted into small, luxurious inns—including the Todos Santos Inn, which was “formerly home to a sugar cane baron in the mid-1800s.”
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