Marc's Public Blog - Trips to other locations

Otherwise, I also have a few pictures of Paris proper:

the street that used to be for cars to get out of Paris more quickly is now pedestrian. Not everyone loves this...

the worst part is how the effeil tower is now behind airport gates and bad looking temporary roof covers as gates :(

Another day, close to Opéra Bastille

don't get conned, that's a different church, I don't like lines :)

After arriving at Les Halles we went to see the small Xmas market, given that the big one at Champs Elysées was cancelled this year due to suckage of the new Paris mayor:

After too long, Les Halles was finally re-opened:

Nearby St Sulpice Church:

Quick stop at Google and the grand magasins and their displays:

We left San Jose at 07:00 sharp and drove to Cabo San Lucas to get an early boat trip to the arch:

We arrived at the pier just before 08:00 when everything was still kind of dead, but thankfully Arturo found us one boat that was able to give us a private ride just before everyone else started doing the same and totally crowding the area later, afer we had left:

this beach connects the gulf of mexico to the pacific ocean

you can also swim to the pacific ocean through this hole, but it's not recommended :)

he famous arch, it's not actually that big

a colony of sea lions was happy fighting over a piece of rock :)

the losing sea lions got thrown back in the water

needle inside the arch

After the boat ride, we went to hike up Solmar. A bit rocky and uncertain trail, but nice views from the top:

yes, well done :)

We then walked back through town before catching our ride back to the airport for our flight:

In the end, it was only half a day, but it felt enough :)

We arrived the day before our dive trip in San Jose, Mexico, and took an ATV tour that day. The next day we went to La Paz before boarding our diving boat to go snorkel with whale sharks.

Before the ATV tour, I walked around downtown San Jose a bit. Apparently, there were some drug lord issues not long before we came, so the police was in force, patrolling the main tourist areas:

We were in a nice hotel next to town square:

I then had 1.5h to walk around town square and the so called art presinct (which was not to Aspen level let's just say):

I had a quick local lunch, including dried grasshoppers

We then took our tour to the dunes north of Cabo San Lucas for ATV'ing

they had a small aviary with friendly small birds

it wasn't cheap, but they had the nicest ATVs I had seen so far

we had a big ass ATV, even though it was indeed not cheap

we eventually made it to the beach

and we got so lucky, some baby turtles just hatched

we watched them and helped the few that got lost

go turtles, go...

then back on the tour

sunset was a miss, sadly

After the ATV tour, we met with Arturo and had a nice dinner in a good restaurant he picked:

The next morning, we left early for La Paz to get on a small boat and snorkel with Whale Sharks:

On the way back, we stopped at the famous hotel California:

We then finally arrived back to San Jose and boarded our diving boat for the Socorro Islands for the 9 day diving trip.