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Take a plunge off Mexico's Caribbean coastline and marvel at the coral and plants that have been popular with divers since the 1960s. Trek inland and visit Mayan ruins immersed in ancient forests. Stop briefly at the popular sites in Uxmal and Tulum, but stay as long as you like at the lesser-known monuments that are off the beaten path. Footprint's Cancn & Yucatn Peninsula Handbook provides thorough coverage of the area, with detailed information on everything from flamingo feeding grounds to beach resorts in Cancn. Includes Background section with fascinating insights into the history of the peninsula. Essentials section with practical advice on getting there and around.Highlights map so you know what not to miss.Comprehensive listings including where to eat, sleep, and have fun.
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Richard Arghiris is a freelance writer, journalist, blogger, and long-term traveller. He has been wandering the highways and unpaved back roads of Central America since 2003, contributing to a range of guidebooks by Footprint, various websites, magazines, and newspapers, including The Independent, The Observer, Perceptive Travel, and Intercontinental Cry. Central America's diversity of remote landscapes, its vivid tropical ecology, its patchwork of indigenous, Latin, and African-descendent cultures - not to mention its swashbuckling sense of drama - are an on-going creative inspiration for Richard. He is particularly drawn to far-flung frontiers where civilisation ends and the wilderness begins. His blog, Unseen Americas, www.unseenamericas.com, features news reports, narrative journalism, and street photography from the sketchy US-Mexico border to the teeming rainforests of Panama.
