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Article: Baja beckons; Los Cabos luxury resorts pamper.(TRAVEL)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2002
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Byline: Corinna Lothar, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"If you build it, they will come" - not to a baseball diamond in a cornfield but to luxury resorts in the desert.
Los Cabos - the Capes - are the once and future fishing villages of San Jose and San Lucas del Cabo at the bottom of the Baja California peninsula, where the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California (also called the Sea of Cortes) meet. When Mexico attempted to sell Baja California to the United States in the 19th century, the offer was refused - Baja was, after all, nothing but a "worthless piece of desert."
This "worthless" land has become one of America's hottest travel ...