Product Description

The guide balances practical advice and information on the best places to dive, kayak and para-sail, with engrossing background detail. It features informed and sensitive commentary on the culture and history of the Yucatan, its Spanish colonial heritage and modern Mayan communities. The author lived in Spain for many years and has traveled extensively in Mexico. Special sections provide insights into the area’s prolific ancient Mayan legacy: the magnificent ruins of Tulum and Chichén Itzá and the Giant Catacombs at Loltún. The guide encompasses the staggering diversity of the southern states, revealing empty tropical beaches, wild-turtle islands, old pirate villages and the most glorious coral reefs in the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #667420 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 540 pages

The Times
‘A pragmatic, warm and entertaining read’

Wildlife Activist Magazine
‘Rider’s guide will help tremendously with the logistics of the trip… very practical guide.. will be of great help to the ecotraveler’

Belfast Newsletter
‘Cadogan Guides are brilliant – Spain and Mexico, for example, are miles ahead of anything else on those countries’

Customer Reviews

Absolutely Excellent Book
I took this book on my trip to the Yucatan, and it proved to be an absolute gem. The itemized, unreadable lists of hotels, restaurants, and sights that comprise most of the other guide books here are kept to a reasonable length. Instead, there is vivid -- and very readable -- prose, organized logically. What you can see by driving down southward along the Mayan Riviera, with histories of the region, histories of every little town. It's all put in context, like a novel. The detailed walkthrough of Chichen Itza made me a bigger expert on Mayan history, architecture etc. than the guide we hired. Overall, I highly recommend it!

Jam Packed with Great Information
This book is jam packed with in-depth information about the Yucatan including a full chapter on the Maya, another chapter on the history of the region, on top of all the important travel-related information that you usually see in travel books. I have a few books on the region and I think this is one of the best!

Very good book for the independent minded travler!
I spent 3 weeks in the Yucatan this fall and this book helped make my trip very enjoyable. I traveled to Merida, campeche, cozmel, cancun, plus many of the ruin sites and this book proved to be an acurate and reliable friend! If you like to travel on your own and seek out those outta the way places this is the book for you.