Mexico (Eyewitness Travel Guides) - Softcover

Spieler, Marlena

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9780756661830: Mexico (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0756661838 ISBN 13: 9780756661830

Publisher: DK Eyewitness Travel, 2010

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Mexico will lead you straight to the best attractions this wonderfully varied country has to offer. Fully illustrated, it covers all the major destinations, from Mexico City to the Golf Coast and Yucatan Peninsula and provides all the insider tips you need, whether you're hiking in Copper Canyon, salsa dancing in Mexico City, or diving in the Mexican Caribbean. Plus, it's packed with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife in each area for all budgets.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Mexico explores the country's ancient ruins and colonial towns, as well as the hectic life of its modern cities. You'll find 3-D illustrated cutaways and floor plans of all the must-see sights, such as the ancient city of Teotihuacan and the Mayan rain forest city of Calakmul. City street maps and reliable information about getting around help you navigate this spectacular country.

With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that brighten every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Mexico truly shows you this country as no one else can.

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Mexico is a heady sort of place; it inundates you with sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile sensations. A dry text, no matter how informative, just doesn't do justice to Mexico's allure. DK's Eyewitness Travel Guide series, on the other hand, does. Sure, it provides the necessary data points. The "Travelers' Needs" section contains 168 recommended hotel options and another 168 restaurants--as well as a beautifully illustrated guide to the foods of Mexico. And there are pages of practical information on visas, health precautions, time zones, electricity, taxis, security, banking, communications, and the like.

But DK's guide provides far more inspirational than a mere collection of data. The two-page glossy color map of Mexico is not just clear and easy to understand, it's beautiful. The hundreds of color photographs throughout the book are exquisite, depicting the sere hilltop archeological site of Monte Alb�n, fishermen preparing nets on a Yucat�n beach, the vibrancy of a fruit market in San Crist�bal de las Casas, the green lushness of the wetlands, the scrub of the Sonora desert, and the intense vegetation of the Tehuantepec rainforests. There are 3-D aerial-view layouts of towns and ancient sites, cutaways and floor plans for churches and pyramids, as well as wonderful explanatory texts for each region, delving into history, traditions, sights, fiestas, foods, music, and activities. DK's is a guide book that is actually a pleasure to use--one that adds excitement to the necessary task of planning your vacation. --Stephanie Gold

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...You feel, looking at them, as if you could close the book and step into the street. -- Contra Costa Times

...considered to be the world's best travel resource to over 30 destinations around the world, make it easier to plan a splendid vacation. -- North American Press Syndication

Both novice and experienced travelers will be captivated. -- U.S. News & World Report

Each book is a visual as well as informational feast about a particular place. -- The New York Times

Encyclopedic in scope, it's meant to be used before, during, and after your stay. -- Travel & Leisure

Eyewitness Travel Guides are marvels of writing, color photography and illustration. What makes these so special is their thoroughness. -- New York Times Syndicate

Hats off to DK for the Eyewitness Travel Guides...[they] raise the bar for all others. -- Dallas Morning News

Rich in photos, crisp and clear in text. -- Columbus Dispatch

The best travel guides ever. -- Sky Magazine

The most graphically exciting and visually pleasing series on the market. --Chicago Tribune

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