3 Day Cruise To Mexico - Carnival Style
3 Day Cruise To Ensenada
If you have never been on a cruise and live on the West Coast of the United States, the 3 or 4 day cruise to Ensenada Mexico is a good one (4 days if you add Catalina Island). It is short enough that if you find you hate cruising, you are only stuck for a few days. Carnival uses one of their older more simple lines for these 3 day-ers and I wasn't too excited about the pool or the size of the hot tubs compared to some other ships I have been on. Lots and Lots of brass and gold everywhere, but more power to them they ship was packed.
Ensenada, not exactly the most tropical of Mexican cities you can visit, but it has some fun excursions to do for the day. They have slowly been fixing up their port area and I'd highly suggest you try the churros right off the ship to the left.. hopefully he's still there because they are the best churros in all of Baja I'm sure. Surprisingly, many of the tourists got off the party boat Carnival ship and went straight to Papa's and Beer which was, unfortunately, blaring the American song "Yeah" by Usher and everyone was going nuts. I don't know, call me silly, but when I'm in a different country I kind of like to hear their music. We passed the party boat restaurant and the lady in the oversized sombrero.. from the boat.. for a more authentic taqueria that was simply amazing. Now I feel like I'm in Mexico.
Obviously, one afternoon in a city isn't really enough to get a real grasp of its culture other than a ton of touristy shops trying to sell you fine gold and the latest day of the dead skulls. A few streets over from the main drag we found another great little Cantina that served really great inexpensive margaritas, chips, and salsa for the win.
Taxi's- I was so scared to take a Taxi mainly from other people freaking me out about them. If you take one of the yellow Taxies in town you are fine. Unless of course, the guy doesn't know how to drive, but twice now we have had perfect luck and they are always super nice. Of course on the radio the American Disco Music.. because that must be what we want, and down some paved roads until they weren't paved, which literally was an intersection of difference. Our destination was the canopy tours https://lascanadas.com/. We've only been here off season so the crowds were low but really fun. Other options for afternoon adventures in Ensenada are jeep tours, kayaking, horseback riding, ATV's through wine country (that sounds pretty amazing) and of course bar hopping so you can drink cheap margaritas and listen to Usher.
If you have never been on a cruise and live on the West Coast of the United States, the 3 or 4 day cruise to Ensenada Mexico is a good one (4 days if you add Catalina Island). It is short enough that if you find you hate cruising, you are only stuck for a few days. Carnival uses one of their older more simple lines for these 3 day-ers and I wasn't too excited about the pool or the size of the hot tubs compared to some other ships I have been on. Lots and Lots of brass and gold everywhere, but more power to them they ship was packed.
Ensenada, not exactly the most tropical of Mexican cities you can visit, but it has some fun excursions to do for the day. They have slowly been fixing up their port area and I'd highly suggest you try the churros right off the ship to the left.. hopefully he's still there because they are the best churros in all of Baja I'm sure. Surprisingly, many of the tourists got off the party boat Carnival ship and went straight to Papa's and Beer which was, unfortunately, blaring the American song "Yeah" by Usher and everyone was going nuts. I don't know, call me silly, but when I'm in a different country I kind of like to hear their music. We passed the party boat restaurant and the lady in the oversized sombrero.. from the boat.. for a more authentic taqueria that was simply amazing. Now I feel like I'm in Mexico.Obviously, one afternoon in a city isn't really enough to get a real grasp of its culture other than a ton of touristy shops trying to sell you fine gold and the latest day of the dead skulls. A few streets over from the main drag we found another great little Cantina that served really great inexpensive margaritas, chips, and salsa for the win. Taxi's- I was so scared to take a Taxi mainly from other people freaking me out about them. If you take one of the yellow Taxies in town you are fine. Unless of course, the guy doesn't know how to drive, but twice now we have had perfect luck and they are always super nice. Of course on the radio the American Disco Music.. because that must be what we want, and down some paved roads until they weren't paved, which literally was an intersection of difference. Our destination was the canopy tours https://lascanadas.com/. We've only been here off season so the crowds were low but really fun. Other options for afternoon adventures in Ensenada are jeep tours, kayaking, horseback riding, ATV's through wine country (that sounds pretty amazing) and of course bar hopping so you can drink cheap margaritas and listen to Usher.