Best way

It depends on where you are coming from and where you are going. If you want easy access to the mainland then I would recommend Cuidad Juarez. Both crossings are relatively hassle free, and you can find transportation from both that would take you to the mainland, but Cuidad Juarez is definetely closer in that respect.

All larger cities at crossing points have little to do with lies further into the interior.Your best transportation option on the US side shpild determine point of entery If you have littel agenda in NO. Mexico, FLY central valleys direct...carracar

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<hr>I have heard that Tijuana is a bit of a dump.<hr></blockquote>

Since 1993, upward of 340 young women have been brutally murdered in Juarez a Mexican border town.

Go to TJ if you are going to take a flight. Go to Juarez or better yet Laredo or Reynosa if you are taking a bus. If you are just heading to an airport or bus station the state of the city will not matter to you one bit. Personally though I think TJ is quite an underrated location. Not really what most people go to Mexico for, but it is far from a dump as cities go.

Thanks for you help. All advice well taken, looking at a map, my budget and what interests me I think I will do the El-Paso Tinjuana route.

El Paso- TJ ... for the hell of it ? What will you be smoking ON the trip ??? carracar

Redux, I think you meant to say " the El Paso/ Juarez route". Enjoy your trip, Edmund

Did anyone mention Nogales. By far the best access to the mainland if coming from the west.

Is there a route between El-Paso and "Tinjuana"

Whoops. Sorry. I will go El-Paso and Cuidad Juarez. Not El-Paso Tinjuana whereever that is.