Safety in Cabo de la Vela

Traveler Advice

By Lorraine Caputo

Personal safety within Cabo de la Vela and to the nearest sites is okay. Be mindful of personal belongings, especially fresh water, if staying in a beach enramada; these businesses usually have a place where you can stow your pack. Walking away from the village to the highway is considered by locals to be totally unsafe with great chance attack and robbery.

Be mindful you are in a desert with strong sun: drink plenty of fluids, use sunscreen, keep under shade in the fiercest part of the day. On the north side of the bay are jellyfish—aguas malas—and coral reefs. Strong currents exist at Pilón de Azúcar<and that part of the coast.

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