Moon Yucatan Peninsula (Moon Handbooks) |  | Authors: Liza Prado, Gary Chandler
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 358,396
Media: Paperback
Edition: Tenth Edition
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1598802135
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9781598802139
ASIN: 1598802135
Publication Date: September 29, 2009
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Product Description
Experienced travel writers Liza Prado and Gary Chandler offer up their best advice on Mexicoâs Yucatán Peninsulaâfrom exploring Mayan ruins and Caribbean beaches to visiting hotspots like Mérida, Cancún, and Playa del Carmen. Prado and Chandler include unique trip ideas for a variety of travelers, such as Pyramids and Palaces, Diving and Snorkeling, and A Family Affair. With essentials on dining, transportation, and accommodations for a range of budgets, Moon Yucatán Peninsula gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.
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 Moon Yucatán Peninsula has received a number of awards, including a Journey Award for Best Guide Book. January 7, 2010
tomtom
10 out of 23 found this review helpful
Liza Prado was a well-respected attorney that felt an inner desire to travel to Yucatan Peninsula and photograph the region in unprecedented detail. She has since gone on to coauthor eleven books, blogs, and articles, while becoming one of the most recognized professions on Latin America. Even more amazing, while researching Moon Yucatan Peninsula and Moon Cancun, she dived along coral reefs, snorkeled through cenotes, clambered on Maya ruins, paddled through mangroves, spied monkeys and tropical birds, and explored colonial cities and cobblestone towns all with a new born daughter.
Gary Chandler, Liza's husband, is no less an authority on the area. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Gary backpacked through much of Mexico and Central America, and later through Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean, exploring the highlands of Guatemala, followed by assignments in El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and elsewhere. Their co collaboration, Moon Yucatan Peninsula has received a number of awards, including a Journey Award for Best Guide Book. Within its bindings, the dedicated traveler will discover well-informed and detailed information on the best way to explore Mexico. For the budget travel to the seasoned explorer, Moon Yucatan Peninsula is a guide everyone should take with them.
Good overall guide, But... January 4, 2010
Molly Peters (CA, United States)
This is a good overall guide with decent maps. But I think it misses some great little out of the way places. I recommend you read through the reviews of several guide books and choose at least 2 and probably three to take on your trip, as all will likely lack in some aspect. A good campanion guide is the the Lonely Planet Yucatan and for a great beach read check out the thriller "A Tourist In The Yucatan".
 Good guidebook but poor maps May 13, 2010
Don (West Sacramento, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed the narrative in this book. While I didn't agree with every assessment (no one will agree with everything in any guidebook) I found the writing to be clear, concise, and humorous.
What I did not enjoy were the lousy maps. Many, maybe over half of them, say "scale not available". In this day of Google Earth and Mapquest, how can scales not be available? Also, it appears that many of the map layers were not overlaid properly. For example, the map of Cancun on page 30-31, shows hotel names in the zona hotelera. The parts of the names that are printed on the land show correctly. The parts of the hotel names that are printed over water are difficult to read. It looks like the ink layer for the water was put on top of the hotel name text layer. This is true of any printing on the water. The scale at the lower right is almost impossible to read.
Did I maybe get a defective copy?
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