The only other review declared that they “used this book during our trip to the Atacama Desert. It was not helpful…” Well, I imagine it wouldn’t be very useful, seeing that the Atacama Desert is in Chile, not in China! I generally prefer the Lonely Planet guides over the Let’s Go guides, which tend to [...]
Very poor, virtually worthless.I ordered 3 maps.The other two are good.The best being Collins Maps.Buy that one instead.It folds out to only one quarter the size of the other 2 maps.The country is also cut in half.HUH? What do we want a map for?To look at the entire country.I the Vietnam map was cut in [...]
If you are on a few days city trip this is a very good little book to carry a long. Handy, easy to find tips for your trips and fast to read. Comes with a separate map! Click Here to see more reviews about: Top 10 Bangkok (EYEWITNESS TOP 10 TRAVEL GUIDE) Product Description: Drawing [...]
The standard tourist destinations are well described. The hutong hotel I stayed in was good and I found it through this guide. There isn’t much off the beaten track advice. What is really bad in this book is the restaurant and bar advice. It is a typical white man’s view of eating in restaurants. Several [...]
The Eyewitness series started out with brightly-illustrated children’s books on science, nature, technology, and history, and expanded to include a variety of nonfiction books including their travel series. Full disclosure: I didn’t read this book cover-to-cover. That is not the intended use, and I doubt many readers approach a travel guide that way. I did, [...]
This book is lovely to look at, but the information inside is very minimal and completely uninteresting.The maps are uninformative (such as giving you an idea about what surrounds the province) and the narrative is so boring.Within the first few pages I felt like screaming. There are dry lists of roads, or festivals or possible [...]