San José del Cabo. The small city where the main international airport is at. It's small and uneventful, but it's quieter and you can join the same tours. The road there doesn't lead to La Paz though, so it's not a good base.
Los Cabos is the name for 2 cities, or perhaps more appropriate now to say a series of towns, at the southernmost tip of Baja California Sur on the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. Cabo San Lucas is the one that's closer to things and where most tourists are. It's cheaper and easier to fly into San José del Cabo first, and even the slowest and cheapest bus only takes around an hour to get to Cabo San Lucas downtown (MXN$85).
In Cabo San Lucas, a tour can be easily booked by walking around the marina, which is a short walk away from its main square. To La Paz, it's around 3 hours by bus (MXN$160), and to Todos Santos, around 1 hour 15 minutes (MXN$160).
El Arco is one of Mexico's most iconic sites and of course cannot be missed. The regular price for a water taxi that drops you off and picks you back up from Lovers Beach/Divorce Beach (just back to back of each other) is USD$15, but when I was there, we had to go out as "fishermen" so the costs were a lot higher, at MXN$900. It's only 45 minutes so it's really not worth it, especially when you can see the Arch and everything much closer by going on practically any other tour.
My scuba diving tour, for example, cost MXN$2700 with 2 dives. We had a much closer and longer look of the Arch. The dives were amazing. The water was a little cold and the current was moderately strong, but the sand falls were truly an amazing sight to see, and the shipwreck was interesting also.
I ended my trip there with a visit to a mountain top for a sunset.
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