MOON ACAPULCO, IXTAPA & ZIHUATANEJO

Moon Handbooks give you the tools to make your own choices, with

• Can’t-miss sights, activities, restaurants, and accommodations, marked with
• Suggestions on how to plan a trip that’s perfect for you, including:

   10-Day Best of Acapulco and Guererro Upcountry
   10-Day Best of Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo, and the Costa Grande
   Cultural, Historical, and Archaeological Treasures
   One Day In . . . Acapulco, Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo

• 31 detailed and easy-to-use maps
• The firsthand experience and unique perspective of author Bruce Whipperman

Moon Handbooks Acapulco, Ixtapa & Zihuatanejo
2nd Edition
Bruce Whipperman
ISBN 1-56691-980-0
$18.95
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In the early 1980s, the lure of travel drew Bruce Whipperman away from a 20-year career teaching physics. The occasion was a trip to Kenya that included a total solar eclipse and a safari. He hasn't stopped traveling since.

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

   Bruce 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 Handbooks Pacific Mexico became his first book. He's also written Moon Handbooks Puerto Vallarta, Moon Handbooks Acapulco, Ixtapa & Zihuatanejo, Moon Handbooks Guadalajara, and Moon Handbooks Oaxaca. Travel, after all, is for returning home, and that coziest of journeys always brings a tired but happy Bruce back to his friends, son, daughter, and wife Linda in Oakland, California.

   For him, travel writing heightens his awareness and focuses his own travel experiences. He always remembers what a Nepali Sherpa once said: "Many people come, looking, looking; few people come, see."

   Bruce invites his readers likewise to "come see"—and discover and enjoy—Mexico's delights with a fresh eye and renewed compassion.

Other travel guides authored by Bruce Whipperman:
Moon Handbooks Guadalajara
Moon Handbooks Oaxaca
Moon Handbooks Pacific Mexico
Moon Handbooks Puerto Vallarta