Chris Sands

Cabo San Lucas

Writer at Freelance

Raconteur. Bon vivant. Food and travel writer for Mexico News Daily, 10Best at USA Today, and TheTravel.

Articles

What's on in Los Cabos in June 2025?

1 week ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

June ushers in the start of fishing tournament season in Los Cabos, with the Triple Crown of Fishing sponsored by watersports apparel giant Pelagic being the first major event in 2025, where anglers compete to catch the biggest billfish and other sought-after species. However, that’s one of only several events in which fishing, or Los Cabos’ other major sport, golf, is featured.
State by Plate: The wines of Querétaro

1 week ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

Of Mexico’s 19 protected denominaciones de origen, nearly half are given to spirits (tequila, mezcal, bacanora, sotol, charanda, and raicilla) or coffee-growing regions (Chiapas, Pluma, and Veracruz). Notably missing from the list is wine.
Why it's easy to love Los Cabos

2 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

Los Cabos is a very different place now than the one I first fell in love with. When I came on a monthlong vacation in 2010 and never left, it was because of several magical moments — sunset sails aboard antique ships as the sun sank behind Land’s End, dirt roads leading to hidden hot springs above deserted beaches, humpback whales breaching majestically, Champagne pool parties at Nikki Beach — that convinced me this place was like no other on Earth.
Who were Mexico’s 'Corn People'?

2 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

Although the Mokaya are known as the “Corn People” — a sobriquet that is a literal translation of what Mokaya means in an early form of Mixe-Zoquean language — these early Mesoamerican inhabitants from the Soconusco region of Chiapas weren’t the first to domesticate maize. However, they are credited with many other firsts.
Where are Los Cabos restaurants getting their fresh, organic ingredients? Right at home

3 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

Los Cabos has always boasted an abundance of fresh local seafood, but over the past two decades, local produce and meats have also become staples at many area restaurants — certainly in the municipality’s best restaurants. Although not an agricultural powerhouse, Los Cabos does produce a significant amount of organic produce.
So Massive It Increased The Length Of A Day: The Giant Man-Made Dam That Slowed Earth's Rotation

3 weeks ago | thetravel.com | Chris Sands

Published 6 minutes ago Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account Natural disasters like the massive 2004 Indonesian earthquake, which measured 9.1 on the Richter scale, can affect the Earth’s rotation, change its shape, and even shift the location of the North Pole. Man-made objects, we’re finding out, can be similarly planet-altering. When China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric dam,sees its enormous reservoir filled with up to 10 trillion gallons of...
Preparing for hurricane season in Baja California Sur

3 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

Hurricane season starts a little earlier for those in the Pacific Ocean region than it does in the Atlantic, beginning on May 15 instead of June 30, although both extend through November 30. Of course, that doesn’t mean tourists interested in a summer vacation in Baja California Sur destinations like Los Cabos, La Paz, or Todos Santos should clutch their proverbial pearls in fear of a hurricane ruining their plans. It’s safe to travel during this period.
State by Plate: Three cheers for Puebla!

3 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

The legends of Mexican food run deep in the highlands, and in Puebla especially. I don’t think it’s that important whether Dominican nun Andrea de la Asunción prepared the first mole poblano circa 1681 at the Convento Santa Rosa, or that it was served to viceroy Tomás Antonio de la Cerda y Aragón. Nor do I think it matters whether she invented it after acquiring her complicated recipe via divine inspiration. Likely, she didn’t invent it at all.
How the map of Los Cabos has changed over the past 40 years

4 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

For those who’ve visited Los Cabos or lived in the area for any appreciable amount of time, the changes that have occurred here in recent decades are remarkable, not only in terms of population increases or the rapid rise in the number of tourists visiting but also in terms of general development. For this article, I used Google Earth imagery to show how the maps of cape cities Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo have changed since 1985 (the limits of Google Earth’s historical capacity).
Who were the 19th-century scoundrels who kept trying to invade the Baja Peninsula?

1 month ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

The age of the filibusteros was a brief one, historically speaking. But it certainly hasn’t been forgotten on the Baja California Peninsula — where between 1850 and 1900, men referred to as “filibusters” made no less than four attempts to take over what are today the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur, in addition to several more attempts on the Mexican state of Sonora. Of course, this was illegal.