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Mexico Travel :: The Baja PeninsularBaja Norte : TijuanaAfter leaving the Mexican Customs area, the visitor can either take a taxi or follow the pedestrian walkway to downtown. The walkway passes through a large mall filled with gift stores, bars and restaurants catering to American tourists. From the footbridge across the Tijuana River, there is a view of the Operation Desert Storm surplus-steel tank road, which runs for ten kilometers (six miles) along the border as a wall against illegal aliens. Every evening, in an absurd ritual, hundreds of youths gather just to the west of the bridge and climb across the wall in large groups. The odds are that in such numbers the US Border Patrol can't capture them all. (The other main illegal crossing is just east of the Otay border post.) Vendors sell sweaters to people from the south not used to Tijuana's evening chill. It's not safe to get closer to the wall, especially at night. The walkway divides here. Straight ahead is an area of more malls and the Mexitlan amusement park, a new multi-media exhibition of the wonders of Mexico in miniature, with restaurants and gift shops (adult admission US$10). Nearby is the Centra Cultural Tijuana arts complex, with an Omnimax theater, concert hall and a museum with a good mtroduction to Mexican history and culture and temporary exhibits. The walkway to the right, at the end of the bridge, leads between more gift shops to Avda Revolucion and the heart of downtown. The red light district, possibly the largest in Mexico, begins at Calle.
Prostitutes stand outside cheap hotels and read Mexican comic books, fights spill out of bars onto the street, and the police are a long time coming. In the other direction on Avda Revolucion are the bright lights of the main shopping district, which runs until Calle 11. At street level, shops sell discount perfumes and drugs, Mexican liquor, jewelry, leather, whips and switchblades. On the side streets you can be married or divorced and get cheap auto bodywork, painting and upholstery. The second floors have been taken over by restaurants and discos, and the hooting of gringo revelers resounds late into the night. Thejai Alai Fronton, on Revolucion between 7 and 8, is a brightly painted reminder of more elegant days and has a sculpture ofajai alai player on top of a globe at the entrance. Tijuana has two bullrings, one near downtown on Boulevard Agua Caliente and the other-the 'Bullring by the Sea'-is seven kilometers (four miles) west on the beach, immediately south of the border fence. The beach is attractive but the water is extremely polluted. The fancy Hippodrome (horse racing track) is on Boulevard Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, near the more expensive hotels and restaurants. Tecate, a border town 49 kilometers (30 miles) east of Tijuana, is the center of a wine-growing region and gives its name to the popular Mexican beer brewed here. Travel to Mexico
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