Today we are catching the Ferry from Mazatlan to La Paz on The Baja California Peninsula so we had a “shortish” ride of 285km from Tepic in order to board the “Baja Ferries” Mazatlan Star at 13h00 for a 16h00 departure.
Our days ride to Mazatlan..
The ride from Tepic was largely uneventful and through terrain that has swampy type inlets coming inland from the Pacific which make for some interesting scenery but other than that it was dry and hot.
We got into Mazatlan just after 12pm and got ourselves and the big girl checked in for the luxury cruise. The ship leaves Mazatlan and will cruise just over 400km overnight to La paz on the southern tip of the peninsula.
The overnight ferry cruise
One of the reasons that we are crossing to the peninsula (other than wanting to visit Cabo San Lucas) is that the territory in Northern Mexico is considered quite dangerous as you may recall from some news reports from about a year ago relating to drug warfare between various “mafia” type groups which we don’t want to find ourselves caught between.
