12/23/11

try my friends resort at www.kiteparadise.biz walking distance from my place.  

please email us at:    (just use the green letters)

14ad444dean@1la-ventana.dotcom

how in the world do I get there?

To get to LaVentana you can fly into either LaPaz airport with direct flights to LA via, Alaska Airlines ,.  Or you can fly into Cabo (san jose del cabo), many major airlines fly into Cabo.  From Cabo rent a car or take a bus to LaPaz, we can pick you up in san antonio too.         directions furthur below and suggestions.

If you are driving, here are links to print.  

Southbound

For driving south from TJ to Ensenada
For driving south from Otay Mesa to Ensenada
For driving south from Tecate to Ensenada

Northbound

For driving north from  Ensenada to TJ (not done yet, someone email me with pictures and directions)
For driving north from  Ensenada to Otay Mesa
For driving north from  Ensenada to Tecate

driving distance calculator for the baja;

Location of car temporary import lot at San Ysardo

here is a link to take the bus from San Jose North

Bus schedule from San Jose to SanAntonio/LaPaz  

here are the directions from Cabo and Lapaz

click for general area maps

When you leave the airport head to LaPaz,(do not take toll road way) exit taking a right then take a left NORTH on highway 1 opposite way of Cabo signs. This is a bit tricky…    LaPaz is about 90 miles, or take the shortcut listed next, you would have turned off half way.

   SHORTCUT… this is now finished and a great road.

If taking the fast way, when you hit a town about half way between airport and LaPaz named San Antonio, this is about 2 hours from the airport.   As you enter this small town San Antonio there will be a very small gas station Pemex on the left, go another quarter mile  (as you go up a hill around a curve) to take the first right turn on a paved road. (there will be small signs for resorts that say LaVentana turn right there, it is really the only right turn).       The paved road will immediately in this little town  veer left and then right this is ok,,, just stay on the paved road…       Take that road 15 miles till it ends .      Once you hit the end and take a left you will pass a gas station and in about 1-2 miles past the gas station take a right and follow the directions into LaVentana…   (there are many signs for local resorts of laventana at that intersection, again only paved road on the right)

you will take this road about 5 miles,  you will hit homes, go another mile.     As you drive into town LaVentana  half mile further then you will see a restaurant on the left viento del norte  with a mini supper small grocery store next door, and on the left there is a yellow building playa central restaurant.    There is a big campground on the right, keep going about a quarter mile.  You will have a clear view/see the water at the campground here.  then on the right you will see a small bar with a Pacifico sign on it.      keep going up the hill and as you go up the  hill away from the water view and you will see a waverunner on the right on a pole in 100 yards, take a very hard right right there.    and backtrack like doing a u-turn on the side dirt road, that is my place.    you will see many "for sale" signs on it, there is a drive in gate first with combo and a walk in gate in 50 feet.    there is a buzzer at the walk in gate.   If you go to far by about 1/4 mile you will see a sign with a whale "captain kirks" on the right.      (if you pass the Pemex gas station on the left you went about 1/2 mile to far.)    if you get lost ask for crazy chelas I am right next to crazy chelas.  

If during the day or evening press the doorbell on the walk-in gate.  If late night use the drive in gate notify me of late arrival and it will be left unlocked.

To repeat…  We are between the big Mexican rustic looking stone house and crazy chelas as you hit the top of the hill, you cannot miss the jetski on the pole on the right.  Turn right at the jetski!!!! Ten feet and backtrack to the south 50 feet.   This place is mainly white Mediterranean looking.   Also at night you may  see Christmas lights on the southern wall.   Drive past the first driveway 100 feet and do the right hand u-turn.   Ring the bell as long as not late night.   Enter at the walk-in gate that has white concrete around a green cyclone door. 

If you see a gas station on the left you went too far by a quarter mile.

If you drive to LaPaz skip the shortcut above:

When you get in LaPaz(big town), at the intersection just past the office depot (you can not miss office depot, this is a huge intersection a store/mall on the left with the large grocery store Sorianas)) take a right (on 286 there are no street sign names) towards El Sergento/Los Planes.  Or if you are at the sorrianas at the other side of the road there is a subway sandwich you want to go on that road and go through the intersection where the gas station is on your left across the lanes and keep going forward. 

You will go through a minor traffic light in a quarter mile, then past the coke factory and bimbo bread on the left in about 300 yards, then half mile a large stop sign go forward, a bunch of junk yards (yonkes) just keep going up the mountain,

you will go over the mountain and 20 miles or so later the first left at a T intersection (it is paved), there will be a little store 300 yards before on the right and you will be at the bottom of the mountain.   Here will be some signs at the T for LaVentana-ElSergento some of the signs are for local resorts on the left , turn left there.  (If you go to far and miss this turn you will see a gas station on the left.  Then you will hit the little village of LosPlanes)   just again turn left there at the T and in 7 miles you will be at my place.  

http://www.ontheroadin.com/baja/bajarvparks/caboloop.htm

you will take this road about 5 miles,  you will hit homes, go another mile.     As you drive into town LaVentana  half mile further then you will see a restaurant on the left viento del norte  with a mini supper small grocery store next door, and on the left there is a yellow building playa central restaurant.    There is a big campground on the right, keep going about a quarter mile.  You will have a clear view/see the water at the campground here.  then on the right you will see a small bar with a Pacifico sign on it.      keep going up the hill and as you go up the  hill away from the water view and you will see a waverunner on the right on a pole in 100 yards, take a very hard right right there.    and backtrack like doing a u-turn on the side dirt road, that is my place.    you will see many "for sale" signs on it, there is a drive in gate first with combo and a walk in gate in 50 feet.    there is a buzzer at the walk in gate.   If you go to far by about 1/4 mile you will see a sign with a whale "captain kirks" on the right.      (if you pass the Pemex gas station on the left you went about 1/2 mile to far.)    if you get lost ask for crazy chelas I am right next to crazy chelas.  

If during the day or evening press the doorbell on the walk-in gate.  If late night use the drive in gate notify me of late arrival and it will be left unlocked.

To repeat…  We are between the big Mexican rustic looking stone house and crazy chelas as you hit the top of the hill, you cannot miss the jetski on the pole on the right.  Turn right at the jetski!!!! Ten feet and backtrack to the south 50 feet.   This place is mainly white Mediterranean looking.   Also at night you may  see Christmas lights on the southern wall.   Drive past the first driveway 100 feet and do the right hand u-turn.   Ring the bell as long as not late night.   Enter at the walk-in gate that has white concrete around a green cyclone door. 

If you see a gas station on the left you went too far by a quarter mile.

nearby stores and restaurants

 there is Rafas with Chef Alfonso right outside this gate serves all meals 100 feet away.    Chef Alfonso is the best chef I have ever met .   a mini super is about 10 minute walk.   Victors, a place to sit and eat is 100 yards out the gate, 2 minute walk.

At Victors you can get tacos  (shrimp, fish, beef, chicken) for a little more than a buck.       Then another 100 yards is another new restaurant serving Mexican food.    Then another 200 yards is another one that serves  american food.    All are open for breakfast lunch and dinner.    walk the other way and in 5 minutes you have the bar with pool table and food called the "sol".   Walk another 5 minutes and you have Pablos and another 5 minutes you have Waukens...

also for fresh fruits and vegetables on Mondays and Fridays a truck is down at the campground.   that is a 5 minute walk.

How to us a cell mexican cell phone in english, click here.