do you find that cycling through baja you should have a fair ability of speaking spanish ? did you stop in any towns along the highway ? me and a friend are planning to cycle down the coast from vancouver and into mexico this summer, but it is hard to not ignore so many of the people online who say it is not a good idea and talk about the serious dangers. but seems like you got on quite well and safe on your trip but was just hoping for some more insight and information, so that I am not going in to the trip naively. if you have any tips/info to share !
Lots of people speak English, but obviously speaking Spanish you get better information and locals are probably more able to help you out! My partner is fluent and I'm alright, so I have to say the hospitality we received was second to none. Didn't feel unsafe at all in Baja, but we took precautions to camp out of sight whilst wild camping, and spent little time in the bigger towns. Worst bit was the traffic cycling put of Tijuana, but after that it was plain sailing! I hope you have a wonderful trip! X Ps Summer will be HOT, we did it in December and that was hot enough for me!
@@AdventureBikeTouring hey, thanks so much for the message. i have booked a month of work off for May, so hoping to see how far we get with the time off, not sure if we will actually make it to Mexico but planning the route in case we do. I appreciate hearing your experience and that you felt safe throughout. I am hoping to make it the same for us if we are to make it far enough. We both don't speak Spanish which I would imagine would be an asset. It's difficult to figure out as there are stories like yours of being super safe and then other people saying stories of it being super dangerous haha, so it is definitely keeping me a little uneasy about the idea. But I could imagine worth it. We planned to not go through any major cities and staying to the smaller towns where I would imagine crime and dangerous situations would be much less of a possibility. I will keep researching, really appreciate your comment once again.
That looks like perfect cycling! Dreamy!
Whale Shark!!!!!!
Looks absolutely stunning!! Fantastic video and what an incredible place x
David Tennent aww thanks dude!!
Did you do the Baja divide route or make your own?
We did our own route 😁
do you find that cycling through baja you should have a fair ability of speaking spanish ? did you stop in any towns along the highway ? me and a friend are planning to cycle down the coast from vancouver and into mexico this summer, but it is hard to not ignore so many of the people online who say it is not a good idea and talk about the serious dangers. but seems like you got on quite well and safe on your trip but was just hoping for some more insight and information, so that I am not going in to the trip naively. if you have any tips/info to share !
Lots of people speak English, but obviously speaking Spanish you get better information and locals are probably more able to help you out! My partner is fluent and I'm alright, so I have to say the hospitality we received was second to none. Didn't feel unsafe at all in Baja, but we took precautions to camp out of sight whilst wild camping, and spent little time in the bigger towns. Worst bit was the traffic cycling put of Tijuana, but after that it was plain sailing! I hope you have a wonderful trip! X
Ps Summer will be HOT, we did it in December and that was hot enough for me!
@@AdventureBikeTouring hey, thanks so much for the message. i have booked a month of work off for May, so hoping to see how far we get with the time off, not sure if we will actually make it to Mexico but planning the route in case we do. I appreciate hearing your experience and that you felt safe throughout. I am hoping to make it the same for us if we are to make it far enough. We both don't speak Spanish which I would imagine would be an asset. It's difficult to figure out as there are stories like yours of being super safe and then other people saying stories of it being super dangerous haha, so it is definitely keeping me a little uneasy about the idea. But I could imagine worth it. We planned to not go through any major cities and staying to the smaller towns where I would imagine crime and dangerous situations would be much less of a possibility. I will keep researching, really appreciate your comment once again.