Cabo San Lucas

Where the Pacific meets the Sea of Cortez, Cabo San Lucas delivers world-class diving anchored by Land's End and the iconic El Arco arch. California sea lions haul out on the rocks year-round and pour into the water with divers at the colony. The famous underwater sand falls cascade off a submerged plateau at 30 m, and the open blue brings hammerheads, whale sharks, and manta rays. Jacques Cousteau called the Sea of Cortez 'the world's aquarium' — the southern tip is where you feel it first.