Insight Guides Mexico: Travel Guide eBook

Insight Guides

• Publisher: Insight Guides
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781839053610
• Edition: 11
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to Mexico and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of places to see and colourful magazine-style layout, this Mexico guidebook is just the tool you need to accompany you before or during your trip. Whether it's deciding when to go, choosing what to see or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Teotihuacán, the Copper Canyon, it will answer all the questions you might have along the way. It will also help guide you when you'll be exploring Uxmal or discovering Oaxaca on the ground. Our Mexico travel guide was fully-updated post-COVID-19.

The Insight Guide MEXICO covers: Mexico City and its Surroundings; The North; Central Mexico; The Gulf Coast and the South; The Yucatán.

In this guide book to Mexico you will find:

IN-DEPTH CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL FEATURES  
Created to provide a deeper dive into the culture and the history of Mexico to get a greater understanding of its modern-day life, people and politics.

BEST OF
The top attractions and Editor's Choice featured in this Mexico guide book highlight the most special places to visit.

TIPS AND FACTS
Up-to-date historical timeline and in-depth cultural background to Mexico as well as an introduction to Mexico's food and drink, and fun destination-specific features.   
PRACTICAL TRAVEL INFORMATION
A-Z of useful advice on everything, from when to go to Mexico, how to get there and how to get around, to Mexico's climate, advice on tipping, etiquette and more.

COLOUR-CODED CHAPTERS
Every part of the destination, from The Gulf Coast to Puebla has its own colour assigned for easy navigation of this Mexico travel guide.

CURATED PLACES, HIGH-QUALITY MAPS
Geographically organised text, cross-referenced against full-colour, high-quality travel maps for quick orientation in Mexico City, Acapulco and many other locations in Mexico.

STRIKING PICTURES
This guide book to Mexico features inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Palenque and the spectacular Guanajuato.

Table of contents

• How To Use This E-Book
• 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
• 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
• The Gulf Coast and The South
• The Gulf Coast
• Oaxaca
• Tabasco and Chiapas
• Insight: Yucatan’s natural wonderland
• The Yucatán
• Transportation
• A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information
• Language
• Further Reading