- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Rough Guides; 1st Edition edition (25 Oct 2007)
- Language French
- ISBN-10: 1843538539
- ISBN-13: 978-1843538530
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 203,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Rough Guide to Kerala is your essential guide to India’s phenomenally beautiful southern tip. The full-colour section introduces the regions highlights from cruising Kerala’s backwater region in a converted rice barge to the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary. This brand-new title boasts enormous detail on everything from top-end resorts to traditional rice-plate restaurants, plus a wealth of information about Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, beaches and advice about how to venture off the beaten track. You’ll find hundreds of accommodation listings, covering luxury and ayurvedic spa resorts, homestays in traditional Keralan tharavad houses, organic farms in the backwaters, jungle tree houses and beach-side backpacker hangouts. The guide comes complete with maps and plans for every area and expert coverage of South India’s history, wildlife and religion.
The Rough Guide to Kerala is like having a local friend plan your trip!
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58 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
OK, I love Rough Guides and always have done. But even allowing for this obvious bias this really is a superb book.
All of the usual information is there; the best places to see & do; how to get around by public & private transport; maps of major towns/cities; a v useful guide to (delicious) Keralan food & drink; local customs etc. You would expect this from a guide book, of course, but Rough Guides does this better than anyone else, and 'Kerala' is no exception.
The excellent 'Contexts' section, which fills in the history of this unique, fascinating, beautiful Indian state; and the feature 'text boxes' of a particular aspect of Keralan culture allow for a good understanding of the state, essential when you've passed the umpteenth poster of Lenin. All this is written in the usual crisp, concise manner, which helps keep the length of the book to an ergonomic 351 pages.
Most useful were the accommodation listings. If, as it was for us, the plan is to stay at one place for a night or two and move on, this guide is a godsend.
It lists, in exacting detail, hundreds of places of varying quality and expense. Read carefully and you will be rewarded.
Thanks to the guide we were able to stay (at exceptionally reasonable rates) in a lakeside resort, a surprisingly comfortable YMCA, a Raj mansion, a homestay in the jungle, and an outrageously good value government hotel.
Not aimed at cruse liner parties or package holidaymakers for sure, but if you want to make the most of your time in Kerala, you need this book.
All of the usual information is there; the best places to see & do; how to get around by public & private transport; maps of major towns/cities; a v useful guide to (delicious) Keralan food & drink; local customs etc. You would expect this from a guide book, of course, but Rough Guides does this better than anyone else, and 'Kerala' is no exception.
The excellent 'Contexts' section, which fills in the history of this unique, fascinating, beautiful Indian state; and the feature 'text boxes' of a particular aspect of Keralan culture allow for a good understanding of the state, essential when you've passed the umpteenth poster of Lenin. All this is written in the usual crisp, concise manner, which helps keep the length of the book to an ergonomic 351 pages.
Most useful were the accommodation listings. If, as it was for us, the plan is to stay at one place for a night or two and move on, this guide is a godsend.
It lists, in exacting detail, hundreds of places of varying quality and expense. Read carefully and you will be rewarded.
Thanks to the guide we were able to stay (at exceptionally reasonable rates) in a lakeside resort, a surprisingly comfortable YMCA, a Raj mansion, a homestay in the jungle, and an outrageously good value government hotel.
Not aimed at cruse liner parties or package holidaymakers for sure, but if you want to make the most of your time in Kerala, you need this book.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It seems that your either a Lonely Planet person or a Rough Guide person. I'm ususally for the LP but didn't fancy carrying the full LP India so chose this. The only thing I don't like with the RGs is grouping the accommodation into categories. I like the LP style of actually knowing the prices of things, not just a ball-park figure. The book has everything you need in and is more holiday-friendly than the big LP. Overall I'm happy with it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Just what we needed. Ended up doing my own research on trip advisor for the hotels but also used this book. Only one available purely for Kerala so a must have if you're heading there.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Educational
Bough as a guide before going on holidays and this guide helped us plan what we wanted to see and visit. It was worth the cost.
Published 6 months ago by Andrew Jones
good for people who know their way around
it's good it has all the useful information and it's quite up to date. it has virtually no pictures so it can be treated as an inspiration... Read more
Published 13 months ago by LuMich
Invaluable!
Travelling to Kerala as a single woman with a young child, this book was able to offer me loads of really good advice prior to departure. Read more
Published 15 months ago by blackcat
Don't buy this book!
After returning from holidaying in Kerala, I can say with certainty that this guide is useless. It's maps, activity information and cultural information is far too vague to be of... Read more
Published 16 months ago by oddkid6
Fabulous guide
I purchased this book prior to my travel to Kerala. Not only I got detailed information about the region, but also suggestion how to search for good ayurvedic spa. Read more
Published 17 months ago by H. Stepanova
Book Saved Me From Kerala
This book says the water is not safe to drink and the leading brands of bottled water have levels of pesticides concentration up to 104 times higher than EU norms. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2010 by Sam
kerala
informative and esy to use. ill let you know how accurate it is when i get back
Published on 3 Nov 2009 by sarah adams
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