Chris Sands

Cabo San Lucas

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

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So Massive It Increased The Length Of A Day: The Giant Man-Made Dam That Slowed Earth's Rotation

1 day 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

2 days 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 days 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

5 days 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 week 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.
What's on in Los Cabos in May 2025?

2 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

If you only visited Baja California Sur in May, you would think it was obsessed with jazz: several of the state’s foremost tourism destinations — including La Paz, San José del Cabo, and Todos Santos — feature performance-based jazz events during the month. The occasion for these events is the International Jazz Festival to accompany the Uneaco-sponsored International Jazz Day. Beyond listening enjoyment, the UN agency proclaimed International Jazz Day in 2011 to unify people worldwide.
The Baja California news roundup

2 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

What’s the news in Baja California this week? The state dwarfs Baja California Sur in tourism, despite always popular Los Cabos in the latter. Border proximity is a notable factor, as is the presence of numerous attractive destinations, including Tijuana, Ensenada, and the wine country of Valle de Guadalupe. Tijuana alone received more than eight million visitors in 2023 (more than double the total of Los Cabos), and Baja California welcomed about 30 million statewide.
State By Plate: Oaxaca

2 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

Oaxaca and it’s extraordinary culinary heritage is evident not only in its wealth of traditional food markets but also in the many signature Mexican dishes it has produced. For example, no less than seven varieties of mole, the crown jewel of Mexican gastronomy, hail from Oaxaca. Tlayuda and queso Oaxaca are also regional inventions, of course, and although mezcal may or may not be, Oaxaca is certainly the ancestral homeland of this iconic Mexican spirit.
Aliens, Meteorites, Volcanoes? Scientists Can't Explain The World's Strangest Crater That's Still A Mystery Today

2 weeks ago | thetravel.com | Chris Sands

Published 35 minutes ago Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account Scientists have proposed many theories about the formation of the Patomskiy Crater, but have found no evidence to support any of them. The reason is that Patomskiy, located north of Irkutsk in the wilds of Siberia, is no ordinary crater. It’s big for one thing: over 160 meters wide, 40 meters high, and weighing about one million tons. It’s also weird, occasionally changing shape, and causing trees closest to...
Los Cabos by the numbers: New perspectives on a remarkable destination

2 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Chris Sands

You can say many things about Los Cabos, but one you can’t is that it’s like anywhere else on Earth. It’s unique, a one-of-a-kind marvel, thanks to its three distinct terrains — mountain, desert and ocean — and the meeting of two significant bodies of water: the Sea of Cortés and the Pacific Ocean. It’s also the fastest-growing place in Mexico and one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations.