Insight Guides Mexico (Travel Guide with Free eBook)

Insight Guides

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Let us guide you on every step of your travels.

From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, Insight Guide Mexico is all you need to plan your trip and experience the best of Mexico, with in-depth insider information on must-see, top attractions like Chichén Itzá, the Riviera Maya, Mexico City, Palenque and Colonial Oaxaca and hidden cultural gems like riding the world's most scenic railroad aboard the Ferrocarril Chichuahua al Pacífico.

This book is ideal for travellers seeking immersive cultural experiences, from exploring Teotihuacán, Uxmal and Meixcan folk art, to discovering Artesanía and Mexican music.

- In-depth on history and culture: explore the region's vibrant history and culture, and understand its modern-day life, people and politics 
- Excellent Editor's Choice: uncover the best of Mexico, which highlights the most special places to visit around the region 
- Invaluable and practical maps: get around with ease thanks to detailed maps that pinpoint the key attractions featured in every chapter
- Informative tips: plan your travels easily with an A to Z of useful advice on everything from climate to tipping
- Inspirational colour photography: discover the best destinations, sights, and excursions, and be inspired by stunning imagery 
- Inventive design makes for an engaging, easy-reading experience
- Covers: Mexico City and its Surroundings; Baja California; Through the Sierras; El Bajio and the Colonial Heartland; Jalisco and Michoacán; Acapulco and the Pacific Beaches; The Gulf Coast; Oaxaca; Tabasco and Chiapas; The Yucután

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

Sujets

• México
• Travel
• Mexico

Informations

• Publié par: Apa Publications
• Date de parution: 01 juillet 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781839051067
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

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How To Use This E-Book

Getting around the e-book
This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Mexico, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editor’s Choice categories of activities and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Mexico. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.
In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.
Maps
All key attractions and sights in Mexico are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.
Images
You’ll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Mexico. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.
About Insight Guides
Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.
Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

© 2019 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd




Table of Contents
Mexico’s Top 10 Attractions
Editor’s Choice
Introduction: ¡Que viva México!
The Mexican mosaic
Decisive Dates
Pre-Hispanic civilization
Insight: The ancient Mexican world
Conquest and colonial rule
Independence and revolution
Modern Mexico
Smoking mountains and flowering deserts
Insight: Adventure tourism
Fiestas
Insight: In honor of their ancestors
Música Mexicana
Mexican food
Artesanía
Muralists
Introduction: Places
Introduction: Mexico City and its surroundings
Mexico City
Around Mexico City
The North
Baja California
Through the Sierras
Insight: The world’s most scenic railroad
The northwest coast
Central Mexico
El Bajío and the colonial heartland
Jalisco and Michoacán
Insight: Mexican Icons
Acapulco and the Pacific beaches
Insight: Slices of paradise: Mexico’s beaches
Introduction: The Gulf Coast and the South
The Gulf Coast
Oaxaca
Tabasco and Chiapas
Insight: Yucatan’s natural wonderland
The Yucatán
Travel Tips: Transportation
Travel Tips: A–Z
Travel Tips: Language
Travel Tips: Further Reading


Mexico’s Top 10 Attractions



Top Attraction 1



Baja California’s astonishing sea life. Gray, blue, humpback, and other whales, dolphins, sea lions, turtles, rays, and countless other rare sea creatures gather off the long, often empty beaches of the Sea of Cortez and Baja’s Pacific coast, in one of the richest marine environments in the world. For more information, click here .
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Top Attraction 2



Uxmal and Chichén Itzá. The two ruined cities that represent the peak of Maya architecture: Uxmal has the most strikingly refined buildings; Chichén Itzá, voted one of the “New Seven Wonders of the World,” is the most intensely dramatic in its style and huge scale. For more information, click here or click here .
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Top Attraction 3



Teotihuacán. The immense pyramids and majestic, silent geography of this giant city, abandoned since around AD 650, encapsulate the mystery and dramatic grandeur of Mexico’s ancient cultures. For more information, click here .
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Top Attraction 4



The Riviera Maya. Some of the world’s finest, softest white-sand beaches, exquisite turquoise seas and dazzling coral reefs provide the essential setting for Mexico’s biggest tourist region. Crowds flock to Cancún and Playa del Carmen, but elsewhere you can still find much more space to yourself. For more information, click here .
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Top Attraction 5



Mexico City. Vast, sprawling, sometimes overwhelming, the capital is almost a continent by itself, within which there are fabulous museums, exquisite restaurants, imposing plazas, placid districts full of old-village charm, and an enormously varied, vibrant, constantly surprising humanity. For more information, click here .
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Top Attraction 6



Mexican folk art. Made with enormous skill and an ever-exuberant love of color, using materials from fine silks to recycled cans, Mexico’s endlessly varied ceramics, textiles, woodcarvings, and other folk arts are an irresistible demonstration of the country’s imagination and creativity. For more information, click here .
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Top Attraction 7



Pacific beaches. Mexico’s long Pacific coast is lined by fabulous, palm-fringed beaches, many with crashing waves that provide some of the world’s best surfing spots. Behind some beaches there are gleaming resorts like Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Acapulco and Huatulco, but elsewhere there are laid-back villages, and miles of idyllic bays you can have just to yourself. For more information, click here or click here .
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Top Attraction 8



Colonial Oaxaca. With its colonnaded main square, extravagant churches, distinctive cuisine, rich craft traditions, and constant calendar of highly colored, intricate fiestas, and its utterly delightful hotels with plant-shaded old patios, Oaxaca epitomizes the rare charm of Mexico’s colonial cities. For more information, click here .
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Top Attraction 9



Palenque. Rising out of the Chiapas rainforest, Palenque is the most atmospheric of all the Maya cities, and its temples, multi-roomed palace and their refined carvings and inscriptions have yielded up the most complete history of the dynasty of its kings. For more information, click here .
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Top Attraction 10



Copper Canyon. Deeper and four times wider than the Grand Canyon, crossed by a spectacular railroad, the Barranca del Cobre is an awesome rift in the world’s surface, an intricate maze of gorges, waterfalls and giant rock walls, home to the Tarahumara people, and with unforgettable hiking and biking routes. For more information, click here .
Robert Harding


Editor’s Choice



Best cities

Mexico City. The city that has everything, from ancient ruins and bustling markets to all-night clubs and ultra-chic hotels. For more information, click here .
Puebla. A busy modern university city, but still a multi-colored jewel of colonial architecture, with many of its old buildings clad in bright Talavera tiles. For more information, click here .
Cuernavaca. Famed for its exquisite year-round climate, with magnificent gardens spread around its steep hills, the old town of Cuernavaca has an ideal mix of a lush natural setting and gracious colonial architecture. For more information, click here .
Guanajuato. The most attractive of the colonial “silver towns,” with narrow streets of churches and 18th-century mansions winding up and down the flanks of a dramatic ravine. For more information, click here .
Oaxaca. One of the cities with the most atmosphere, the most special cuisine, and the most intriguing culture and traditions. For more information, click here .
San Cristóbal de las Casas. Maya and Spanish traditions are inextricably intertwined in the fascinating capital of the Chiapas highlands, together with a touch of modern style. For more information, click here .



A colorful street in Guanajuato.
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Reclining figure at the entrance to the Tlaloc Shrine, Templo Mayor.
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Best ancient sites

Templo Mayor. Mexico City. The core of Aztec Ten