Ensenada, Mexico Summary

ENSENADA, just ninety minutes on from Tijuana by the toll road and sitting on Bahia de Todos Santos, is favoured by Californians “in the know”, and at weekends it’s packed with partying groups of southern Californians. Yet it remains far calmer, cheaper and smaller than Tijuana – though still with a pretty clear idea of the value of the US dollar – and has a growing reputation as an ecotourism spot. With some life and culture of its own as a major port and fish-processing centre, it’s also home to one of the nations largest wineries, although the distinctly average quality of the stuff produced here makes this a somewhat dubious badge of distinction.