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One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Mexico (101 Beautiful Small Towns)

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One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Mexico

What a fantastic resource for discovering the hidden gems of Mexico. We're planning a trip south, where the dollar will still deliver good value, and are thrilled that we found this book. It's packed with beautiful photographs, informative summaries, a selection of hotel and restaurant recommendations in each location and a regional index to help the reader/traveler organize and plan an itinerary. It covers the places we're all familiar with, but this book also reveals a whole new Mexico that you don't hear much about from the travel websites and agents.
It's not the sort of book you take with you. It's one you want to have before you plan. Who knew about the turquoise lagoons of Bacalar? Or the "dance of the fliers" in Papantla? If you're looking for an exciting and exotic cultural adventure or just wanting to know more about Mexico, get this book!

While I'm still glad that I purchased this book, since I did learn about a number of attractive small towns that do not turn up in the guide books, prospective customers should be warned that many of these 101 listings are not small towns. Perhaps even less that half? A great number of them are religious buildings from the colonial period: churches, convents, monasteries, etc. And many of them are pre-Colombian sites-- including such classic places as Monte Alban, Chichen Itza and Teotihuacan. It may be that *all* the familiar pre-Colombian sites are listed in here! And then you have cities, such as Guanajuato and Campeche. The most gratuitous listing is Cozumel, the busiest cruise-ship harbor in all Mexico. These may be worthy destinations (and the listing of the religious buildings is certainly useful), but they're not small towns. So, if you're especially keen on the small town experience in Mexico, you will be short changed.

I haven't seen the other books on this series, on France and Italy, but I'll wager that they are truly focused on small towns.

This is a beautiful book with some great photography about some of the "unknown" places in Mexico. It goes beyond the Cancun and Cabo San Lucas and transports you to another side of Mexico that few people know. Small, charming villages that still preserve the colonial history and the traditions that make them special and makes you evoke a period in history long gone. The descriptions are short and I will have love it if there was a more detailed map of where these places are located and how to reach them.

What a beautiful book. The photography is fantastic and each town has some information about it's origin or appeal. I never knew many of these towns even existed. And I've been closer to some of these places than I want to admit! I don't even think many of the guide books mention some of these places. That's the beauty of this book. It's going to open your eyes to some exciting new places to discover when travelling in Mexico. It's a big country full of beauty and it just became bigger! I do agree that a more detailed map would be nice, but I've been "googling" some of these towns already and the info's out there. So, make a list, get yourself down to Mexico and start enjoying some fascinating little places you never knew existed. I'm going to!

Update 2011. The book is still on my reading table and I've used it twice when planning trips to Mexico. What a find!

I lived in Mexico for nearly 4 years and traveled all around. This book rings true
I agree with the towns they've selected and the descriptions for the beautiful towns in this magnificant country.

I bought this book for my Dad, who loves Mexico and has been there often. I did take an extensive look thought, and it gives details of where to stay, eat, etc. at some of the more common and less explored locations. It great if you want to plan your own trip or even know what to look for once you get there. Beautiful pictures. It's a great way to decide what you would like to see.

This was not at all what I expected. I thought it would be a soft cover guide book (for the low price). But this is a very interesting, large wonderful photo journal that we went through slowly with our Mexican friends who just loved it. Just a fantastic visual overview of interesting places in a facinating country.

I might just have to buy the same book about Italy after purchasing this one about Mexico. The photos are all gorgeous and my goal is to visit each and every one of these beautiful towns. Mexico is (in my opinion) a very underappreciated country for its beauty and talents.

This book gives very interesting history of the story of Mexico, its conquerors and its conquests. The photograpy of each city is beautiful. The book could have used a few more maps. I have the atlas beside me when I read this book but it's worth the trouble.

I can't get enough to look at the awesome pictures on this book, the only point of negative review is the correlation between the pictures and the reference pages, you have to go back and forth between the photo and where it is located in Mexico on the reference page, beside that the pictures are most beautiful and I can't hardly wait to visit some of those villages. Thanks