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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 Editors Choice categories of activies 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, hotels, 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

Youll 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 who use their on-the-ground experience to provide the very latest information; their local expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. 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 stay and eat, so you can be confident that when we say a restaurant or hotel is special, we really mean it.

Like all Insight Guides , this e-book contains hundreds of beautiful photographs to inspire and inform your travel. We commission most of our own photography, and we strive to capture the essence of a destination using original images that you wont find anywhere else.

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Mexicos Top 10 Attractions

With dramatic ancient relics, exuberant cities, placid colonial towns, and stunning landscapes, Mexico offers an immense variety. Here are some of its foremost highlights.

Top Attraction 1

Baja Californias 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 Bajas Pacific coast, in one of the richest marine environments in the world. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 2

Uxmal and Chichn Itz . The two ruined cities that represent the peak of Maya architecture: Uxmal has the most strikingly refined buildings; Chichn Itz, recently voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, is the most intensely dramatic in its style and huge scale. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 3

Teotihuacn . The immense pyramids and majestic, silent geography of this giant city, abandoned since around AD 650, encapsulate the mystery and dramatic grandeur of Mexicos ancient cultures. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 4

The Riviera Maya . Some of the worlds finest, softest white-sand beaches, exquisite turquoise seas and dazzling coral reefs provide the essential setting for Mexicos biggest tourist region. Crowds flock to Cancn and Playa del Carmen, but elsewhere you can still find much more space to yourself. For more information, .

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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, .

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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, Mexicos endlessly varied ceramics, textiles, woodcarvings, and other folk arts are an irresistible demonstration of the countrys imagination and creativity. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 7

Pacific Beaches . Mexicos long, long Pacific coast is lined by fabulous, palm-ringed beaches, many with crashing waves that provide some of the worlds 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, .

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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 Mexicos colonial cities. For more information, .