Baird - Frommers Mexico, 2011

Frommers Mexico, 17th Edition

by David Baird, Shane Christensen, Christine Delsol & Joy Hepp
with Maribeth Mellin

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Production Editor: Erin Amick

Cartographer: Tim Lohnes

Photo Editor: Richard Fox

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Front Cover Photo: Guadalajara, Mexico: Charo cowboy riding horse Steve Bly / Getty Images

Back Cover Photo: Waves of Pacific Ocean near Cabo San Lucas Val Smirnof / Alamy Images

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List of Maps

List of Maps

Mexico

Central Mexicos Pre-Columbian Treasures

The Best of Western Mexico

Los Cabos to the Copper Canyon

La Ruta Maya

Mexico City & Environs

Downtown Mexico City

Polanco/Chapultepec Area

Centro Histrico

Alameda Park Area

Chapultepec Park

Coyoacn

San Angel

Teotihuacn

Side Trips from Mexico City

Taxco

Ixtapan de la Sal

Valle de Bravo & Avndaro

Cuernavaca

The Colonial Silver Cities

San Miguel de Allende

Guanajuato

Santiago de Quertaro

Zacatecas

San Luis Potos

Morelia

Ptzcuaro

Uruapan

Downtown Guadalajara

Puerto Vallarta: Hotel Zone & Beaches

Downtown Puerto Vallarta

Mazatln Area

Costa Alegre & Central Pacific Coast

Barra de Navidad Bay Area

Manzanillo Area

Acapulco Bay Area

Zihuatanejo & Ixtapa Area

Downtown Zihuatanejo

Puerto Escondido

Around Oaxaca

Downtown Oaxaca

Monte Albn

Puebla

Tlaxcala

Xalapa Orientation

Downtown Veracruz

Downtown Cancn

Isla Cancn (Zona Hotelera)

Isla Mujeres

Cozumel

San Miguel de Cozumel

The Yucatns Upper Caribbean Coast

Playa del Carmen

The Yucatns Lower Caribbean Coast

Yucatn State

Mrida

Campeche

Palenque Archaeological Site

Where to Stay & Eat in Palenque

San Cristbal de las Casas

The Chiapas Highlands

The Copper Canyon

Chihuahua

The Baja Peninsula

San Jos del Cabo

The Two Cabos & the Corridor

Cabo San Lucas

Todos Santos

The Lower Baja Peninsula

Tijuana

The Upper Baja Peninsula

Note About Maps

This guide contains dozens of maps of varying sizes and complexity. If you find it hard to read a map on your device, use the zoom function to enlarge. You can also download and/or printout PDFs of all of the maps in this guide. Go to www.frommers.com/go/ebookmaps and click on the title of your guide.

About the Authors

A writer, editor, and translator, David Baird has lived several years in different parts of Mexico. Now based in Austin, Texas, he spends as much time in Mexico as possible. Shane Christensen has written extensively for Frommers throughout Mexico, and is also the author of Frommers Dubai and Frommers Grand Canyon National Park. Even though hes a California native, he considers himself an honorary Mexican in heart and soul and returns to Mexico every chance he gets. Joy Hepp is a native Californian who has spent most of her life in Mexico and its former territories. She writes about travel, culture, and music for several print and online publications. Author of Pauline Frommers Cancn & the Yucatn, Christine Delsol was raised by her Mexican-Chilean grandmother and has been traveling to Mexico for more than 30 years. She has spent most of her career in newspapers, including eight years as a travel editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. She has won an Associated press award, two Lowell Thomas awards, and Mazatlns Golden Deer Award. Maribeth Mellin is the author of Travelers Mexico Companion, which won the countrys prestigious Pluma de Plata award, and has covered Mexico and Latin America for dozens of newspapers, magazines, websites, and guides.

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Advisory & Disclaimer

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