Best Mexican Travel
This new edition includes: Time-saving vocabulary panels that eliminate having to look words up Advice on how to avoid common mistakes A detailed answer key for quick, easy progress checks Supporting audio recordings, flashcards, and auto-fill glossary available online and via app. Gilda Nissenberg Ph.D. , is an experienced educator and faculty trainer.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Complete Spanish Grammar is another book in the Practice Makes Perfect series which happens to be a real bargain for the price. For example: - Irregular verbs. - Stem changing verbs. - Ser and estar. - Determining when to use the preterit tense vs. the imperfect tense. - The future and the conditional. - The progressive tenses. - The present perfect and the past perfect. - The future perfect and the conditional perfect. - The passive voice and passive constructions. - Not just the present subjunctive but also the imperfect and the pluperfect subjunctive. - Commands. - Nouns and articles. - Adjectives, adverbs, pronouns and prepositions. - And a lot more. One features that I found helpful about this book is that the author includes verb charts that you can quickly use as a reference. But the two things that I like most about this book are: One, the author gives plenty of advice on how to avoid many of the common mistakes that native English speakers make when speaking Spanish. You can conveniently take it anywhere with you when vacationing in a Spanish speaking country in order to have more than 700 phrases in your Spanish-vocabulary arsenal. The program is geared toward the foreign-language learner who wants to eventually achieve fluency in Spanish instead of someone who just wants to learn a few travel phrases. Compared to the other programs that I have used, this one does the best job at teaching you how to develop an authentic sounding Latin American Spanish accent."
"The author easily explains the rudiments of grammar--starting with verb tenses-- while offering many challenging exercises with answer keys in the back."
"Great resource for helping with learning or researching self Spanish."
"Very good book, very helpful."
"I have been teaching high school Spanish for 29 years and these workbooks are great supplements to my textbook!"
"For one thing, she uses vocabulary in the exercises that are nowhere in the book - not in the glossary, not in any of the other exercises, nor in any of the vocabulary boxes that appear on some pages."
"Just in chapter 1, the verbs shown in tables come up so small and faint they are illegible without blowing the font sky-high and rotating the text each time you want to look at one, so easy back reference isn't possible."
Thankfully, Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide for the Curious Traveler lends a thorough, guiding hand to help make the visitor's stay outstanding. Jim Johnston was born in New York City and grew up in the woods of New Hampshire.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"So if you are thinking about a trip to Mexico City, you probably already know that you can see colonial architecture that has been grandly restored, pyramids that date back to before the Americas were discovered, world class art museums (and the maybe best anthropology museum anywhere), top rated public art and architecture, dining at every level that rivals many European cities and can be as exciting as New York.... And that is just the beginning."
"Equipped with dire warnings from friends and family, I embarked on a trip to Mexico City, confident that I had a good, common-sense book to guide me through. With guidance from this book, I was able to get money from the ATM without being mugged, traveled safely on the metro (subway) and explored distant neighborhoods."
"He clearly knows and loves the city, we covered maybe 7 of his tours in our 5 days and found it an ideal way to explore and enjoy Mexico City (and yes, we also loved Mexico City)."
"This is the book for Mexico City."
"We were only there for 4 days but the author's advice and suggested walking tours were extremely helpful in each part of the city we visited."
"I had a free Sunday and followed his tour of the colonia Maria de la Ribera. And I had a drink at the Paris bar and finished the trip with a walk through the huge Buenavista mall, just as he described."
"There have been many good guidebooks on Mexico City but only one masterpiece."
"This is a great book if are looking for (1) walking tours and (2) expensive places to eat."
Paired with the resources the author shares on her site -> Tulumtraveler.com (just copy and paste into your browser), you will be ready for an incredible vacation in paradise. Travel to Tulum is your inside scoop on when to visit, what to pack, money saving tips, things to do and where to stay once you arrive.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Really looking forward to our Thanksgiving travels to Tulum and now knowing exactly where to stay, what to each and the best places to visit and feel like a local."
"The author calls it paradise and from all she included on what to expect, see, do, where to stay and how to be a local this is the unspoiled Mexico we were looking for but not finding in Cancun or Cozumel."
"We are coming to Tulum for a wedding and reading this book is like getting to know the town with your close friend."
"As a frequent traveler to Tulum I found that this book covers it all."
"Anyone planning on traveling to Tulum, I say order this book, you will not be disappointed and you'll even save a pretty penny when you do."
"Vacationing is supposed to be fun but sometimes planning a trip can be so stressful."
"I'm so going back - what a beautiful and fascinating corner of the world if you have not been you must put it on the list."
"I head t Tulum in less than 2 weeks and this guide was so very helpful."
Best South American Travel
While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer’s perilous path in search of the truth—except he’d written about adventure far more than he’d actually lived it. “[An] engaging and sometimes hilarious book.”— The New York Times Book Review “A serious (and seriously funny) travelogue, a smart and tightly written history, and an investigative report into perhaps the greatest archaeological discovery in the last century.”—NationalGeographic.com. “An engaging, informative guide to all things Inca.”— Entertainment Weekly.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If you are only going to read one book about Machu Picchu before you visit this should be that book."
"Mark Adams' account of his adventure has something for everyone...the middle aged male who shucks the cubicle for adventure, the adventurer who wants an authentic account of exploring the still remote corners of the globe and most...those who have long thought of making the trek to Peru and Machu Picchu."
"I now know going anywhere other than from Cusco to Machu Picchu requires preparedness and awareness to keep from getting into trouble with vicious plants and stupid mistakes that can wreck things in a hurry."
"Having been to Machu Picchu 32 years ago I thoroughly enjoyed reading Mark's account of his travels there."
"If you are a true adventurer, then this is the book for you!"
"I wish that this book had been available before I went to Lima, Cusco and Machu Picchu and other parts of Peru in September and October of 1987."
"Part travelogue, part personal narrative, part history lesson, it read like a novel and I enjoyed the author's humor and turn of phrase."
"I ordered this book on a whim 3 days before a trip to Peru, figuring I ought to learn as much as possible during my short travel opportunity."
Best Central American Travel
Color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Budget-oriented recommendations with honest reviews - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, music, cuisine, sports, wildlife, environment, architecture, literature, cinema, current events Over 90 maps Covers Mexico's Yucatán & Chiapas, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and more. Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing. Source: Nielsen BookScan.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Call me crazy...but I feel like a book with "on a shoestring" in the title should really spend more time reviewing budget accommodations and skip the expensive hotels."
"Great book with tons of great information."
"Came sooner than expected and the book is great."
"Those who like to include off-the-beaten path travel, should consult Lonely Planet’s individual country books for gems that are even better than the easily-gotten-to sites."
"Really a god guide!"
"There should be separate (thin) books for each Central American country to spare single-country visitors from lugging such a thick volume; the country-specific e-chapters are a poor alternative due to careless layout and, in El Salvador, spotty Internet access."