DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Mexico - Softcover

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9781465412089: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Mexico

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1465412085 ISBN 13: 9781465412089

Publisher: DK Eyewitness Travel, 2014

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Mexico is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns, from Mexico City to the Golf Coast and Yucatan Peninsula. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions on offer. It 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.

The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide will help you to discover everything region-by-region, from the country's ancient ruins and colonial towns to 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. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets, while detailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus, or car. Plus, DK's excellent insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Mexico effortlessly.

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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Review:

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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"This [DK Eyewitness Travel: Top 10] might be the best traveling companion to throw in your pack. It's a slim and sleek overview... loaded with practical and useful content." — Gadling.com

"Known... for its four-color maps, photos and illustrations, the [DK] Eyewitness Guides are extremely user-friendly for travelers who want their information delivered in a concise, visual way." — Chicago Tribune

"The best option... Color photos, maps, and diagrams bring the place to life." — The Philadelphia Inquirer

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