Most of the travel information you find on the Web today is clearly tailored to selling a tourism product—hotel, condo, restaurant, sports activity—without offering related information of much use. And many of these sites were designed in the mid-1990s and haven’t been redesigned since. Forums, in which impassioned participants voice their many opinions, are a notable exception.

• Baja.com
• www.baja.com
• One of the earliest Baja-focused online communities still ranks among the highest in traffic.

• Baja Books and Maps
• www.bajabooksandmaps.com
• Online bookstore with an impressive collection of Baja-related titles.

• Baja Bush Pilots
• www.bajabushpilots.com
• A must-read for pilots interested in flying a private aircraft to Baja.

• Baja Nomad
• www.bajanomad.com
• Still the best all-around Baja site for hard infor mation that doesn’t appear to have been paid for, with more nitty-gritty information than any rival. Great links page, copious information on hotels and restaurants, plus continually updated Baja news and essays.

• BajaQuest
• www.bajaquest.com
• Mainly classified listings, with several active discussion boards.

• Baja Travel Guide
• www.bajatravel.com
• An advertiser-driven site covering all of Baja, with telephone listings, maps, and calendar of events.

• In Search of the Blue Agave
• www.ianchadwick.com/tequila
• An excellent website devoted to tequila connoisseurship, though it hasn’t been updated in several years.

• Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
• www.inegi.gob.mx
• This Mexican government agency publishes statistics on population and economics for all of Mexico, as well as complete topographical maps. Spanish only.

• iWindsurf.com and iKitesurf.com
• www.iwindsurf.com
• www.ikitesurf.com
• Daily Baja wind forecast and reports for windsurfers, plus a whole range of consumer weather delivery services, from the parent company WeatherFlow.

• Los Cabos Guide
• www.loscabosguide.com
• Relatively up-to-date, advertiser-driven listings of hospitality and tourism businesses in the Los Cabos area, with some coverage of the East Cape and Todos Santos.

• Mexico Online
• www.mexonline.com/baja.htm
• Advertiser-driven site that hosts home pages for many Baja businesses.

• NaftaNet
• www.nafta-sec-alena.org
• Information pertinent to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

• Olsen Currency Converter
• www.oanda.com/converter/travel
• For fast quotes on exchange rates for all international currencies, including the Mexican peso. Print out a “cheat sheet” to make easy conversions without having to do any math.

• Sunbelt Publications
• www.sunbeltpub.com
• This book publisher specializing in upper and lower California has an online catalog of its Baja titles.

• U.S. Embassy
• http://mexico.usembassy.gov
• Contains the home page for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, with information on consular services to U.S. citizens as well as State Department warnings.