- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 5th Revised edition edition (30 Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1864500883
- ISBN-13: 978-1864500882
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,293,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Comprehensive outdoor activities information: skiing, white-water rafting, hiking and surfing. Spanish language section and glossary. Extensive background information on Chilean politics and history. Accommodation and restaurants for all budgets. Bonus infomation on travelling to the Falkland Islands.
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Archaeological digs at Monte Verde, near Puerto Montt, uncovered perishables, basalt points and grass twine that were recorded to be 14,800 years old. Read the first page
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best travel guide to a wonderful country,
By Michael Otter "The Objective Otter" (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
This review is from: LONELY PLANET TRAVEL SURVIVAL KIT: CHILE AND EASTER ISLAND. (Paperback)
I have used several Lonely Planet Guides over the last few years, but the best by far is the guide to Chile. I cannot comment on its usefulness for travellers visiting Easter Island, but for mainland Chile,as well as Chilean and Argentine Tierra del Fuego it is a fantastically accurate, well considered travellers handbook. Maps are clear and easy to use, reccomended hotels and restaurants are almost invariably good, and the attention to detail in descriptions of even the smallest towns strikes the right balance providing good information for travellers on varying budgets,and with a wide range of interests. The section on Patagonia, should be used in conjunction with the LP guide to trekking in Patagonia if you want to get right off the beaten track. As a fly fisherman , used to finding my way about countries when there is absolutely no written help for fishermen available (understandably!) I found this to be the only guide I have ever used that had any useful information at all.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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SUPERB,
By A Customer
This review is from: LONELY PLANET TRAVEL SURVIVAL KIT: CHILE AND EASTER ISLAND. (Paperback)
A "must buy" book for anyone thinking of visiting Chile. I have used a number of Lonely Planet guide books and this one continues in the tradition of being well informed and well laid out for easy reading and access.....Don't go to Chile without it!
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3.5 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews) 23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Best of the Chile guides,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chile and Easter Island (Lonely Planet Regional Guides) (Paperback)
When planning my trip to Chile, I bought about every Chile guide I could find, and I have about 8 or 10 of them. While none of them had "everything" this one was definately the best of them. The city maps were useful as they are in all Lonely Planet books anad its practical information helped decide where to go and how to get around. I think it gave me the most useful information of all the other guidebooks. I planned my entire trip to Chile and Easter Island from guidebooks and phone calls without any tour agency. I think I did find a couple things out of date as others did, but that is, as said another reviewer, common to all guidebooks as they are researched over a period of time, then edited & compiled, then finally released. I recommend getting this book if you plan to visit Chile and also another book for another point of view and other details. The book is not perfect, but it is probably the best out there on the subject.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
a great guide,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chile and Easter Island (Lonely Planet Regional Guides) (Paperback)
While shopping for a guidebook for my first visit to Chile, this book (the previous edition of it) looked like the most comprehensive guidebook available. It was extremely helpful for both choosing what places to visit and how to visit them. As some other reviewers noted, there were some weaknesses and omissions and some information was out of date, but the current edition of the book is likely to be more up-to-date. Anyway, if you need your whole trip laid out for you, you are probably better off joining a tour group. I found the Lonely Planet Trekking in the Patagonian Andes was a good complement to this book. I certainly wish all the information had been available in a single book, but given the amount of detail in both the Chile and Patagonian Andes books, I don't begrudge Lonely Planet too much.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Essential but inadequate,
By Academic Operative Wannabe - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chile and Easter Island (Lonely Planet Regional Guides) (Paperback)
I was really stunned by the number of things that were not in this book. But for a number of things, like finding good places to eat and sleep, this was far and away, the best book that I used in Chile (I also had Openroad and Footprints).Example things that were left out: almost anything on Torres del Paine. No mention of the W. No mention of a glorious day hike in Puerto Natales. Little mention of logistics for getting around to various parks. It seems to me that this is an essential book to have, but I don't think that it will do as the only one. And I don't have a good recommendation for the other one |
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