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Frommers Cancn & the Yucatn

19th Edition

by Shane Christensen & Christine Delsol with Maribeth Mellin

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About the Authors

A former resident of Mexico City, Shane Christensen has written extensively for Frommers throughout Mexico and is the author of Frommer's Dubai and Frommer's Grand Canyon. He goes back to Mexico at every chance he gets. Author of Pauline Frommers Cancn & the Yucatn, Christine Delsol has been traveling to Mexico at every opportunity for 30 years. She has spent most of her career in newspapers and is the recipient of an Associated Press award and two Lowell Thomas awards. Maribeth Mellin first drove the two-lane road from Cancn to Chetumal when tires hanging on sticks marked sandy roads to secluded campgrounds. Shes kept track of the changes ever since. She's the author of Traveler's Mexico Companion, which won the country's prestigious Pluma de Plata award.

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special finds those places only insiders know about

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