East Cape or Cabo Este region encompasses a large stretch of coastline that follows the road of the same name, Camino Cabo Este. Starting from the San Jose del Cabo marina in the south (Puerto Los Cabos), stretching east all the way around the tip of the peninsula past Los Barriles to El Pescadero in the north.
Los Barriles and neighbouring Buena Vista have developed into a destination in their own right, with the towns swelling each winter with kitesurfers and plenty of information available online about visiting. Same too for the scuba diving mecca of Cabo Pulmo in the southeast corner of the Baja Peninsula, which attracts divers from all over the world.
But the stretch of beautiful coastline along the southern part of the peninsula, between San Jose del Cabo and Los Frailes (the start of what could be considered the Cabo Pulmo area), seems to have been relatively left alone.
For the purpose of this post, we refer to the East Cape as the area stretching east from the San Jose del Cabo Marina (Puerto Los Cabos) to Los Frailes, a bay bordering Cabo Pulmo. This includes towns (I say ‘towns’ very loosely, and really it is more just the name of the beaches in the vicinity!) such as Zacatitos, La Fortuna, Nine Palms and La Vinorama along Camino Cabo Este (East Cape Road).