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Nobody knows Bolivia like Lonely Planet, and our 7th edition helps you uncover the secrets of this rugged Andean country. Lose yourself among blinding-white salt flats, creep through the jungle seeking wildlife, shop in a bustling indigenous market and explore exquisite colonial cities. Adventure awaits - let us take you there.
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
Full Color highlights chapter with top picks from other travelers
Unique Green Index identifies sustainable options
Outdoors chapter with trekking, mountain biking, horseback riding and more
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
Full Color highlights chapter with top picks from other travelers
Unique Green Index identifies sustainable options
Outdoors chapter with trekking, mountain biking, horseback riding and more
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Although Sucre remains the judicial capital, La Paz, Bolivia's largest city and centre for commerce, finance and industry, is the de facto capital. Read the first page
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Although Sucre remains the judicial capital, La Paz, Bolivia's largest city and centre for commerce, finance and industry, is the de facto capital. Read the first page
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This guide is really disappointing. It's not updated at all, it's badly written with slang expressions and silly jokes. It came out just 6 months ago and it contains so many errors about places, hotels, restaurants. The worst thing has been going to really nice hotels or good restaurants that were completely empty because this book said they are worn, with slow service, too expensive etc...Most maps are incorrect and one place is described as a " sleepy village" whereas it is a region of 5-6 villages!!All the travellers I've met along the way complained about it!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think that the last reviewer of this book was needlessly harsh, I lived in Bolivia for two months, relied heavily on the guide book, and the only times that I had problems with it were down to me misreading its information. I found it very accessible due to its more casual style of writing, and in reality this is the guide book that everyone that travels to Bolivia seems to use. No one I met had any gripes about it, and while I don't doubt that there may be errors in it, I did not come across any. Indeed it really enriched my time in Bolivia, and I don't know what I would at times have done without it!
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
The most current and best guide available.
16 Sep 2007
Format:Paperback
I come to Bolivia twice a year and over the past three years I have reviewed more than a dozen guides on Bolivia and this is the best guide available.
Lonely Planet guides are known for their no-nonsense, off-the-beaten-path advise. The descriptions of the towns and cities are top rate. Each area has its history and climate explained. This is one of the few guides that will give you the population and altitude of major cities and towns. Kudos!
The "must see" places are listed and explained. Trekking routes are explained and mapped! There are excellent descriptions of the seven geographical areas of Bolivia (Southern Altiplano, Central Highlands, Eastern Lowlands, Amazon Basin, etc.). The section on health is "top drawer" and needs to be read before traveling here. Sidebars, or text boxes, are found throughout the book and provide you with wonderful sources of miscellaneous information, i.e., "Bolivar - El Liberatador," "Traditional Andean Musical Instruments," etc., .
There are two other books that can enhance your time in Bolivia. The first is, William Powers' excellent and powerful account of living in Bolivia, "Whispering in the Giant's Ear" and Herbert Klien's, "A Concise Short History of Bolivia". In short, this is the most current(as of Sept. 2007) and best guide out. Strongly Recommended.
Lonely Planet guides are known for their no-nonsense, off-the-beaten-path advise. The descriptions of the towns and cities are top rate. Each area has its history and climate explained. This is one of the few guides that will give you the population and altitude of major cities and towns. Kudos!
The "must see" places are listed and explained. Trekking routes are explained and mapped! There are excellent descriptions of the seven geographical areas of Bolivia (Southern Altiplano, Central Highlands, Eastern Lowlands, Amazon Basin, etc.). The section on health is "top drawer" and needs to be read before traveling here. Sidebars, or text boxes, are found throughout the book and provide you with wonderful sources of miscellaneous information, i.e., "Bolivar - El Liberatador," "Traditional Andean Musical Instruments," etc., .
There are two other books that can enhance your time in Bolivia. The first is, William Powers' excellent and powerful account of living in Bolivia, "Whispering in the Giant's Ear" and Herbert Klien's, "A Concise Short History of Bolivia". In short, this is the most current(as of Sept. 2007) and best guide out. Strongly Recommended.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
I'm not convinced that the authors have ever been to Bolivia
15 Aug 2008
Format:Paperback
Lonely Planet is generally a great source for guidebooks, but I'm not convinced the authors returned to Bolivia to do research for this updated edition. It seems as if they just slapped on a new cover and republished the previous edition.
The restaurant recommendations (if the restaurant recommended is even still open for business, that is) lean heavily on pizza and pasta places that cater to travelers, which is fine if you have traveled all the way to Bolivia to eat pizza with a bunch of German tourists in zip-off hiking pants, but not useful at all if you want an authentic experience.
I also had a Rough Guide to Bolivia during my 5-week trip around Bolivia and found that book to be a far superior resource to LP Bolivia. The Rough Guide never disappointed in terms of hotel, restaurant, and sight seeing recommendations.
The restaurant recommendations (if the restaurant recommended is even still open for business, that is) lean heavily on pizza and pasta places that cater to travelers, which is fine if you have traveled all the way to Bolivia to eat pizza with a bunch of German tourists in zip-off hiking pants, but not useful at all if you want an authentic experience.
I also had a Rough Guide to Bolivia during my 5-week trip around Bolivia and found that book to be a far superior resource to LP Bolivia. The Rough Guide never disappointed in terms of hotel, restaurant, and sight seeing recommendations.
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
This guide needs some serious work.
9 April 2006
Format:Paperback
Lonely Planet guides are known for their no-nonsense, off-the-beaten-path advise, and their reliable hotel and restaurant recommendations. However, this guide does not come up to the quality level of the dozen or more Lonely Planet guides that I have reviewed.
There are various editing errors found in the guide. For example on page 27 the guide states: "Bolivia is thinly populated with just 1 million people". Wrong. Bolivia has nearly 9 million people.
Though this guide was published in 2004, most of the research was done in 2002. That means the information on accommodations and eateries is four years old and may not be reliable. For example, in Sucre, a delightful historic city, I went to nine of the twelve restaurants that Lonely Planet recommended. I found three of the restaurants permanently closed. In the other six restaurants, three had mediocre to bad food, and in the other three, the food was fair to good, but none of the restaurants had food that would justify a recommendation. The recommendations for accommodations were more useful than those for the restaurants.
The guide's section preparing you to journey to Bolivia (visas, health, getting there by air, etc.) is just bare-bones basic. Some of the maps in this guide are completely unusable, like the map for Sucre. The `Walking Tour Map' for La Paz is nothing short of a joke.
The strength of this guide is found in its excellent descriptions of the seven geographical areas the guide covers. Each area has its history and climate explained. This is one of the few guides that will give you the population and altitude of major cities and towns. Kudos! The descriptions of the towns and cities are top rate. The "must see" sights are listed and explained and you should attempt "to see" these places. The sidebars or text boxes found throughout the book, i.e., "Bolivar - El Liberatador," "Traditional Andean Musical Instruments," etc., are great sources of information.
In short, if you are not concerned about hotels, accommodations or needing good, reliable maps, then this guide, because of its excellent descriptions and history of each geographical area, is recommendable. Your best bet would be to use this guide as a supplement to either Pocket Adventures Bolivia (Strongly Recommended) or Footprint's guide on Bolivia.
Finally, also consider two additional books that can enhance your time in Bolivia. The first is, "Chasing Che" by Patrick Symmes and also excellent is Herbert Klien's, "A Concise Short History of Bolivia" (see my reviews on both).
There are various editing errors found in the guide. For example on page 27 the guide states: "Bolivia is thinly populated with just 1 million people". Wrong. Bolivia has nearly 9 million people.
Though this guide was published in 2004, most of the research was done in 2002. That means the information on accommodations and eateries is four years old and may not be reliable. For example, in Sucre, a delightful historic city, I went to nine of the twelve restaurants that Lonely Planet recommended. I found three of the restaurants permanently closed. In the other six restaurants, three had mediocre to bad food, and in the other three, the food was fair to good, but none of the restaurants had food that would justify a recommendation. The recommendations for accommodations were more useful than those for the restaurants.
The guide's section preparing you to journey to Bolivia (visas, health, getting there by air, etc.) is just bare-bones basic. Some of the maps in this guide are completely unusable, like the map for Sucre. The `Walking Tour Map' for La Paz is nothing short of a joke.
The strength of this guide is found in its excellent descriptions of the seven geographical areas the guide covers. Each area has its history and climate explained. This is one of the few guides that will give you the population and altitude of major cities and towns. Kudos! The descriptions of the towns and cities are top rate. The "must see" sights are listed and explained and you should attempt "to see" these places. The sidebars or text boxes found throughout the book, i.e., "Bolivar - El Liberatador," "Traditional Andean Musical Instruments," etc., are great sources of information.
In short, if you are not concerned about hotels, accommodations or needing good, reliable maps, then this guide, because of its excellent descriptions and history of each geographical area, is recommendable. Your best bet would be to use this guide as a supplement to either Pocket Adventures Bolivia (Strongly Recommended) or Footprint's guide on Bolivia.
Finally, also consider two additional books that can enhance your time in Bolivia. The first is, "Chasing Che" by Patrick Symmes and also excellent is Herbert Klien's, "A Concise Short History of Bolivia" (see my reviews on both).
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