Fodor's Pocket Santa Fe and Taos, 2nd Edition: The All-in-One Guide to the Best of the Cities Packed with Places to Eat, Sleep, Shop and Explore (Pocket Guides) [Paperback]

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Publication Date: April 10, 2001 | Series: Pocket Guides

"An excellent choice for people who want everything under one cover." - Washington Post

Fodor's Pocket Guides are designed for people who just want the highlights. They contain full, rich descriptions of major cities around the globe including the most worthy sights, the best restaurants and lodging, plus shopping, nightlife, and outdoors highlights - all in a new trim, petit package.

All the basics you need to help you decide what to see and do in the time you have.

Smart contacts and detailed practical information, including the scoop on public transportation, local holidays, what to pack, and more.

The very best dining and lodging in every price range.

Great recommendations for shopping nightlife, outdoor, activities, and essential side trips.

Detailed maps with sights, restaurants, nightspots, and hotels clearly marked.

Easy-to-use new interior design with blue ink and fun graphics.

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"An excellent choice for people who want everything under one cover." - Washington Post

Fodor's Pocket Guides are designed for people who just want the highlights. They contain full, rich descriptions of major cities around the globe including the most worthy sights, the best restaurants and lodging, plus shopping, nightlife, and outdoors highlights - all in a new trim, petit package.

All the basics you need to help you decide what to see and do in the time you have.

Smart contacts and detailed practical information, including the scoop on public transportation, local holidays, what to pack, and more.

The very best dining and lodging in every price range.

Great recommendations for shopping nightlife, outdoor, activities, and essential side trips.

Detailed maps with sights, restaurants, nightspots, and hotels clearly marked.

Easy-to-use new interior design with blue ink and fun graphics.

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Introducing Santa Fe and Taos

New Mexico's tagline is more than a marketing cliche. The state is truly a "Land of Enchantment," and Santa Fe is indisputably "the City Different." Surrounded by mind-expanding mountain views and filled with sinuous streets that discourage car traffic but invite leisurely exploration, Santa Fe welcomes with characteristic warmth, if not some trepidation.

Despite a surfeit of trendy restaurants, galleries, and boutiques that tout regional fare and wares, both authentic and artificial, Santa Fe remains a special place to visit. Commercialism notwithstanding, its deeply spiritual aura affects even nonreligious types in surprising ways, inspiring a reverance probably not unlike that which inspired the Spanish monks to name it the "City of Holy Faith."

If Santa Fe is spiritual, sophisticated, and occasionally superficial, Taos, 65 mi. away, is very much an outpost despite its relative proximity to the capital. Compared with Santa Fe, Taos is smaller, feistier, quirkier, tougher, and very independent. Rustic and delightfully unpretentious, the town contains a handful of upscale restaurants with cuisines and wine lists as innovative as what you might find in New York.

First-time visitors discover the unexpected pleasures of a place where time is measured not by linear calculations of hours, days, weeks, and years but in a circular sweep of crop cycles, gestation periods, the rotation of generations, and the changing of the seasons.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; 2nd edition (April 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679007229
• ISBN-13: 978-0679007227
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,882,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)