Planning Your Time

It takes about two hours to drive to Mexicali [1] from the San Diego airport. Once you’ve arrived, you could spend just an afternoon and evening getting oriented and preparing for a trip to San Felipe [2], or a couple of days to explore the city’s few attractions.

The most popular weekend itinerary in this area is a trip from Mexicali to San Felipe and back (two hours by car each way).

With a week or more, you could add a side trip to the Cañon de Guadalupe [3], and continue south of San Felipe to Puertecitos. With a four-wheel-drive vehicle, you could turn this trip into a loop, following the coastal road all the way to Gonzaga Bay [4] and heading inland to meet the Transpeninsular Highway at Chapala. From there, you can head south to Bahía de los Angeles [5] or turn north to Ensenada [6] and Mexico 3, which returns to Mexicali.