November 1, 2021 - Day of the Dead
Our first port of call was Cabo San Lucas. The closer we got to Cabo, we were greeted with large beautiful bright yellow butterflies and dark black butterflies. A very strange sight to see so many butterflies when a ship is still at sea. This is Day of the Dead though.
The signature landmark of Cabo San Lucas is the El de Cabo San Lucas or “the arch”.
The waters of Cabo are too shallow to support a cruise ship, so water tenders are used to taxi to the port. Within the first minute of stepping on land, we were inundated with people offering water taxis to the beach or offers to buy souvenirs.
Navigating the streets of Cabo San Lucas can be quite difficult, as few roads run parallel to each other and no street signs were populated with the street names. Our destination was Sammy Hagar‘s Cabo Wabo Cantina. At the cantina we enjoyed local live music, pollo fajitas and cool drinks.
The streets of Cabo are quite clean and people are very friendly, but the shop vendors are constantly encouraging you to come in the shops for good deals, “almost free!“. “Señor, just step in. Deals are so good, they are almost free!”.
The Day of the Dead displays in front of the shops were beautiful. These girls are putting the finishing touches on a vibrant border made of dyed grains of rice.
Once back on the Majestic, we showered, changed info formal attire and headed to the Crowne Grille for an amazing dinner. We had black tiger prawns and papaya salpicon, black and blue onion soup, New Zealand double lamb chops, red skinned mashed potatoes, creamed spinach, followed by warm chocolate mousse trifle.
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