Yucatan: Healthy Traveler's Handbook (MedToGo Health Traveler's Handbook) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

For the traveler who aims to remain healthy and active while in the YucatÁn Peninsula, this guide offers an in-depth directory of health care and recreation facilities in 10 of the region's most popular destinations: Akumal, CancÚn, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Merida, Playa del Carmen, Progreso, Puerto Aventuras, Puerto Morelos, and Tulum. Pre-travel advice includes recommendations on traveler's insurance and immunizations. A directory of physicians, hospitals, and hyperbaric chambers covers available services and specialties, English-speaking administrative and medical liaisons, a rating of care, and a detailed description of each facility, as well as contact information, hours, charges, specialties, and descriptions of experience and certification for each physician. Detailed city maps, emergency information, a pharmaceutical guide, and translations of common Spanish medical terms and phrases accompany the directory. Recreational safety while travelling is also addressed with an overview of diving medicine, open water and cenote diving safety, a short list of the region's best diving schools, and reviews of dive centers, dive sites, yoga schools, gyms, hiking, biking, and kayak trips. Recommendations and descriptions of healthy restaurants, spas and temazcal (Mayan vapor bath) centers complete the healthful traveler's overview of the YucatÁn.