Mexico City Travel

Greater Than a Tourist: Mexico City, Mexico by Pilu Alvigini offers the inside scoop on Mexico City. As a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination. In this audiobook, you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your stay. This audiobook will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you an excitement and knowledge from a local.

Hey, amigo! Ready to explore Mexico City with a guide that feels like your cool friend who actually knows the place? Then you’re going to love what’s waiting for you inside. What’s Inside for You: Stress-Free Planning: When you get tired of jumping between blogs and confusing tips, this guide gives you simple and clear information so you always know what to expect before you head out into the city. Foodie Heaven: If you enjoy tasting the real flavors of a place, you’ll find easy suggestions for the best street tacos, family kitchens, neighborhood bakeries, and local classics that ...

Book One -Blood of Quetzalcoatl – Crimes Against the State – Shortly after getting a new position as security guard for El Templo Major in Mexico City, Mario Martinez makes a grisly discovery when he finds his sister Angela murdered in an Aztec style ritual. He is immediately summoned by her boyfriend, the powerful new Presidente of Mexico, Benito Juarez who is kidnapped by the El Templo Cult, a modern group who worship the ancient gods, because he is believed to be the returned embodiment of their god Quetzalcoatl. Will Mario find Benito in time to save him, or will the vicious cult ...

Greater Than a Tourist - Mexico City, by Mariana Gomez Vargas, offers the inside scoop on some of the best dishes Mexico City has to offer. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.

From acclaimed and prizewinning historian Paul Gillingham, the rich and fascinating history of one of the world’s most diverse, politically groundbreaking, and influential of countries From its outset, “Mexico was more profoundly, globally hybrid than anywhere else in the prior history of...

Akashic Books’ acclaimed series of original noir anthologies has set a high standard for portraying cities and their neighborhoods in all their dark and violent splendor. Now, Mexico City Noir surpasses that standard with phantasmagorical tales of double-dealing, corruption, violence and self-delusion.... This collection is such a varied literary feast.

In the years before the Mexican Revolution, Mexico is ruled by a tiny elite that apes European culture, grows rich from foreign investment, and prizes racial purity. The vast majority of Mexicans, who are native or of mixed native and Spanish blood, are politically powerless and slowly starving to death. Presiding over this corrupt system is Don Porfirio Díaz, the ruthless and inscrutable president of the Republic. Against this backdrop, The City of Palaces opens in a Mexico City jail with the meeting of Miguel Sarmiento and Alicia Gavilán.

From the dazzling spectacle of Day of the Dead to the enduring legacy of Frida Kahlo, ¡Viva Mexico! explores the people, places and cultural traditions that define this vibrant country. You’ll discover how Mexican food, festivals, music and family all play a part in shaping modern Mexican...

Are you planning a trip to Mexico? Always been in love with South America? Simply browsing and dreaming of a Mexican holiday? Then this book is for you! This book will put your doubts of whether going to Mexico is worth it. This amazing country has so much to offer for visitors in terms of activities, food, drinks, sightseeing, entertainment, sports, nightlife, adventures, shopping and more. Plan your holiday with this clever extensive Mexico travel guide. Or, if you were unsure of where to go for your holiday - allow me to introduce you to the United Mexican States and convince you to ...

Set in Mexico City in three time periods (16th century, 2026, 2032), The Time Travelers recounts the rise of the Aztec Empire, the founding of the first Mexico City (Tenochtitlan), its destruction at the hands of Hernan Cortés, and the building of modern Mexico City upon its ashes. But the Aztec bloodline lives on today, holding ancient knowledge known to only a few. The discovery of a magnificent Aztec object buried near Mexico City’s Zócalo and National Cathedral pulls an archaeologist, an odd Jesuit priest, a police detective, and two beautiful divas from two time periods together in...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as turbulent, fascinating, and colorful as any other on Earth. When an American journalist...

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending...

Three siblings. One globe-traveling dad. And a hidden truth beneath one of the world’s strangest wonders. When journalist Gabe Santos takes his eight-year-old triplets to Xochimilco, Mexico City, he’s chasing a story about the last great floating gardens and a chinampa-growing family whose harvest records seem impossible. Officially, it’s a feature about history, farming, and one of the most astonishing places in the world. But Tala, Naya, and Rafi discover there’s another story moving under the tourist boats. A hidden canal route. A child messenger erased from memory. A flute ...

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Guanajuato City. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

The Interior Circuit is Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico City) as his home, Goldman explores and celebrates the city, which stands defiantly apart from so many of the social ills and violence wracking Mexico. This is the chronicle of an awakening, both personal and political, "interior" and "exterior", to the meaning and responsibilities of home.

There's so much to love about Mexico. Indigenous traditions stretching back millennia; colourful cuisine that's loved the world over; and vibrant festivals bursting with joyful energy. Mexico is a country worth celebrating - and that's exactly what ¡Viva Mexico! is all about. Within its...

La Ciudad de México late al ritmo de mandíbulas triturando comida, paladares degustando sabores, cucharones revolviendo ollas, carritos haciendo sonar sus vapores... Aquí hay una variedad de sabores para aquel a quien le suene la tripa. En ¡A mordidas! Comer a toda hora en la CDMX, Ana Paula Tovar prueba los sabores de la madrugada a la trasnoche por las calles chilangas y demuestra que en la capital de la garnacha se come rico a toda hora.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist audiobook is for you. Greater than a Tourist - Puebla City Puebla México by Rodrigo Cárdenas offers the inside scoop on Puebla City, “The City of Angels”. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

La ciudad es bebedora por excelencia: desde unas chelas hasta exquisitos cócteles, pasando por bebidas tradicionales como el mezcal, y de los dioses como el pulque, en CDMX se bebe 24/7. En este número, revisamos la historia del Tenampa, emblemático salón que nos antoja un tequila bien servido, para salir después a la plaza Garibaldi, territorio de mariachis; recorrer emblemáticas cantinas del Centro Histórico, y descubrir brebajes como el tepache o los tragos clásicos: un old fashioned, un negroni, un daikiri. También, el trago más sabroso: una cuba de ron con coca, a veces pintadita.

Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their...