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Moon Oaxaca
Check out Oaxaca City, Monte Albán, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Ángel, and Bahías de Huatulco. Or venture off the beaten path to Huajuapan de León and San Pedro Ixcatlán. Read intriguing sidebars about Porfirio Diaz, sealife, Machismo, and, of course, food.
With firsthand experience and honest insight, award-winning author Bruce Whipperman provides you with all the tools you need to create your own unique experience. Bruce's fun and creative travel suggestions can help you plan your perfect trip including, 10-Day Best Of, Outdoor Adventure, Cultural, Archeological, and Historical Tour, Best Beaches, Art and Handicraft Tour
Moon Oaxaca provides you with the essential details needed to discover all the can't miss sights, attractions, and restaurants in this colorful region, while including the best lesser-known and local hotspots. With expert writers, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential dose of humor, Moon Handbooks ensure that travelers have an uncommon and entirely satisfying experience—and a few new stories to tell.
With firsthand experience and honest insight, award-winning author Bruce Whipperman provides you with all the tools you need to create your own unique experience. Bruce's fun and creative travel suggestions can help you plan your perfect trip including, 10-Day Best Of, Outdoor Adventure, Cultural, Archeological, and Historical Tour, Best Beaches, Art and Handicraft Tour
Moon Oaxaca provides you with the essential details needed to discover all the can't miss sights, attractions, and restaurants in this colorful region, while including the best lesser-known and local hotspots. With expert writers, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential dose of humor, Moon Handbooks ensure that travelers have an uncommon and entirely satisfying experience—and a few new stories to tell.
- GenresTravel
500 pages, Paperback
First published December 5, 2006
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March 28, 2014
For me, travel brings out a great deal of superstition. I never travel without the laminated picture of the Virgin of Guadelupe my mother gave me in the same pouch as my passport and debit cards, and I always pray to some unnamed deity when I get on an airplane or in a foreign taxi/bus. It sounds like I was raised Catholic, or am Catholic, but I'm none of these things. It's irrational and out of character, but I can't help it.
In line with this, it was with an enormous amount of skepticism that I used a Moon guide to our trip to Oaxaca a couple years ago. Ever since my first solo trip to Europe, I have been a Lonely Planet devotee. All guide books have their flaws, but I have been to so many places with Lonely Planet--from continental Europe to India to the desert Southwest of the United States to the Yucatan--that I feel like I know it. I'm familiar with its layout, I've learned to look for things (gasp) that are not in it and evaluate myself, and I rely on it to orient me to a new place. The decision to use a Lonely Planet, even though it has occurred to me that there may be better guidebooks out there, is as much based more on comfort and even superstition than anything else. Lonely Planet books make me feel like someone has got my back, just as the Virgin's picture above my passport does.
However, Lonely Planet does not have have a guidebook specifically for Oaxaca. They have one for Mexico at large, Mexico City, the Yucatan, and probably some other regions in Mexico, but not Oaxaca. While Moon was ok, it lacked some of the qualities that I love about Lonely Planet. The most important, I felt, was a wide variety of budget accommodations. There were a few budget places listed, but not as many as I'm used to. This was not only for the lodging, I felt, but food and places to go. For a more affluent traveler, this would be fine, but that's the beauty of Lonely Planet--they realize that people with all different budget sizes travel and are looking for different things.
Though my idealistic side thinks that Lonely Planet should have plenty of competition as they tend to dominate the travel market, and that I should use other guides for variety, I will probably not be changing my habit. I hope that Moon, the Rough Guide, etc, all have their own loyalists, even if it's just to push Lonely Planet to keep their travel writers sharp.
In line with this, it was with an enormous amount of skepticism that I used a Moon guide to our trip to Oaxaca a couple years ago. Ever since my first solo trip to Europe, I have been a Lonely Planet devotee. All guide books have their flaws, but I have been to so many places with Lonely Planet--from continental Europe to India to the desert Southwest of the United States to the Yucatan--that I feel like I know it. I'm familiar with its layout, I've learned to look for things (gasp) that are not in it and evaluate myself, and I rely on it to orient me to a new place. The decision to use a Lonely Planet, even though it has occurred to me that there may be better guidebooks out there, is as much based more on comfort and even superstition than anything else. Lonely Planet books make me feel like someone has got my back, just as the Virgin's picture above my passport does.
However, Lonely Planet does not have have a guidebook specifically for Oaxaca. They have one for Mexico at large, Mexico City, the Yucatan, and probably some other regions in Mexico, but not Oaxaca. While Moon was ok, it lacked some of the qualities that I love about Lonely Planet. The most important, I felt, was a wide variety of budget accommodations. There were a few budget places listed, but not as many as I'm used to. This was not only for the lodging, I felt, but food and places to go. For a more affluent traveler, this would be fine, but that's the beauty of Lonely Planet--they realize that people with all different budget sizes travel and are looking for different things.
Though my idealistic side thinks that Lonely Planet should have plenty of competition as they tend to dominate the travel market, and that I should use other guides for variety, I will probably not be changing my habit. I hope that Moon, the Rough Guide, etc, all have their own loyalists, even if it's just to push Lonely Planet to keep their travel writers sharp.
September 17, 2008
This was a good book in helping me plan for our upcoming trip to Oaxaca for the Day of the Dead Festival. BUT...such a small portion of the book is for Oaxaca City & surrounding areas. The majority of the book is for the rest of the state so it makes it kind of pointless to lug around on a trip if you're going for the festival. I actually found better info online about food, stuff to do, transportation, etc. Not many pictures either, which is a MUST for me when I am picking a travel guide. I chose this one b/c it was pretty much the ONLY book I could find on Oaxaca.
November 27, 2007
Lots of information laid out in an easy to read & find format. Great travel guide.
March 1, 2017
It's a fairly decent guidebook. Lots of recommendations for higher-end destinations rather than for the more authentic Mexican experience.
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