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Title: Lonely Planet Peru (Lonely Planet Peru, 4th Ed) by Rob Rachowiecki ISBN: 0-86442-710-7 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (33 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Arequipa Blues!
Comment: I adored the writing style of this particular guidebook. I felt I knew the author after spending so much time reading it. Alas, the Arequipa section is outdated in the following areas: restaurants, cafes and entertainment. Establishments seem to come and go in Arequipa.
Also note that Arequipa is a region -- not merely a town. I wish the guidebook had better expressed this reality. Nearly all of the "adventure" tours lie 5-6 hours bus ride away from Arequipa. Mind you, these are Peruvian buses that tend to break down. Allow enough time to travel between Arequipa and your adventures...
Rating: 5
Summary: lonely planet peru
Comment: My wife and i were pen pals. when i wanted to make the trek to meet her.I was nervous. This book acurately descibed all of the various aspects of the country.This book helped prepare me and also get the right hotel. I LOVE PERU. One day i want to live there. the food is fabulous.the beer especially cuzquena is the best. also drink some inca kola if you get the chance. the churchs in lima are out of this world. A must see. Breath taking.
Rating: 4
Summary: great, but with deficiencies...
Comment: like all travel guides, you can find something that is not there in 'lonely planet peru'... i traveled peru for three months last year and had the advantage of using three different guidebooks along the way... they all have their pros and cons, so a review of any of them must necessarily discuss these:
the pros: the maps and city plans are substantially better than in the competitors' guidebooks (where footprint is severely lacking, for example)... lonely planet is one of the few cheap-o style travel guidebooks that gives you information on at least a few hotels that are not youth hostels, dives or other forms of bottom-barrel accommodation; in other words, they at least give you a few mid-range and expensive options if you wish to go that way... all the essentials are there, with great suggestions on places to sleep, eat and visit
the cons: as with ALL of the backpacker/youth travel guidebooks (LP, footprint, rough guide, let's go), the information on sights/monuments/museums, etc., is SEVERELY lacking... there is just the most basic of information on the history of the sights that you have gone so far to see... which makes it necessary to buy another book, pay an expensive guide or some such thing... (for instance, you will rarely read detailed descriptions of the artwork to be found in a church and are often left wandering about saying 'this is so beautiful, i wonder what it is...i wish the guidebook would tell me more!') i know this would make the guidebooks huge, but even 50% more information would be wonderful so as to have a little bit more of a grip on what you are looking at after taking a 12-hour bus ride through the andes to get there!
which is why, despite its quality, i always felt the need to take another guidebook along, just in case...using my usual technique of tearing out just the pages i would need from each book
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Title: The Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tour by Ruth M. Wright, Alfredo Valencia Zegarra ISBN: 1555663079 Publisher: Johnson Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Inca Trail, Cusco & Machu Picchu, 2nd: Includes The Vilcabamba Trail and Lima City Guide by Richard Danbury ISBN: 187375664X Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, 6th Ed) by Rob Rachowiecki, Danny Palmerlee ISBN: 1740594649 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Bolivia (Bolivia, 4th Ed) by Deanna Swaney ISBN: 0864426682 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: The Rough Guide to Peru by Dilwyn Jenkins ISBN: 1858285364 Publisher: Rough Guides Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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