The Wall Street Journal

Luxury travellers are seeking out this Mexican sanctuary

Luxury travellers are seeking out this Mexican sanctuary
An expansive pool at the Four Seasons Resort Los Cabos at Costa Palmas. (Image: Four Seasons)
The Wall Street Journal
By Melinda FulmerI stood still in the cool emerald water of a swimming hole, tiny carp nibbling my toes, as a 12-metre waterfall thundered down from above. This roaring, soothing idyll was unfolding in the Rancho Ecológico Sol de Mayo, a park on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. Though in a part of the country often mobbed by sun-seeking North Americans, I was one of just five tourists taking in the scene.I had found myself in Baja California Sur’s East Cape, just 72km northeast of the comparably teeming Los Cabos...

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