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Moon Acapulco, Ixtapa, and Zihuatanejo
Third Edition
By: Bruce Whipperman
Series: Moon Handbooks
ISBN-13: 9781598800876
Pages: 400
Price: $19.95 US
Published: Feb 2009
Format: Trade Paper

Moon Acapulco, Ixtapa, and Zihuatanejo

by Bruce Whipperman
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With his name on guides to Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, and Pacific Mexico, Bruce Whipperman is a verifiable Mexico expert. His latest offering on the resort trio of Acapulco, Ixtapa, and Zihuatanejo allows travelers to experience everything from relaxing on pristine, palm-shaded beaches to dancing until dawn at local discotheques. Whipperman includes unique travel strategies, including a section on festivals and events perfect for the seasonal traveler; and Handicraft Country, where the handicraft market boasts reed baskets, tiger-masked figurines, pine furniture, and pottery. Complete with information on cliff-diver shows and the best scuba diving locations, Moon Acapulco, Ixtapa & Zihuatanejo gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.

About the Author

Bruce Whipperman

Bruce Whipperman has always pursued his travel career for the fun of it. He started with slide shows and photo gifts for friends. Others wanted his photos, so he began selling them. Once, stranded in Ethiopia, he began to write. A dozen years later, after scores of magazine and newspaper feature stories, Moon Pacific Mexico

became his first book, and Moon Handbooks to Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, and Acapulco, Ixtapa & Zihuatanejo followed.

With his family grown, he has been free to let the world's wild, beautiful corners draw him onward: the ice-clawed Karakoram, the Gobi Desert's trellised oases, Rajasthan’s pink palaces, Japan's green wine country, Bali's emerald terraces, and Pacific Mexico’s palm-shaded beaches, colorful towns, and pine-scented highland valleys.

For Bruce, travel writing heightens his awareness of the places he visits and helps him focus his own travel experiences. He’ll always remember what a Nepali Sherpa once said: Many people come, looking, looking; few people come, see.

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