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Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other --New York Times
This book was the one thing we couldn't live without when we backpacking through South America. It s provided invaluable advice on hostels, dangers, money, visas, maps, tourist sites, transport. Everything really! --Amazon customer
This book was the one thing we couldn't live without when we backpacking through South America. It s provided invaluable advice on hostels, dangers, money, visas, maps, tourist sites, transport. Everything really! --Amazon customer
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No 1. Bestselling guide to South America.
For 30 years, Lonely Planet has been the backpackers' bible for South America. Whether you're trekking the Andes, gliding through the Amazon or joining a wild festival, our unbeatable 11th edition is your key to adventure.
This multi-country guide covers: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Inside this book:
More maps than any other South America guidebook - over 200!
Eat cheap and sleep easy with budget accommodation and cheap eats
Full-colour highlights chapter with top picks from other travellers
Detailed itineraries help you decide where to begin
Sustainable travel tips and volunteering opportunities
Contains essential phrases but a Lonely Planet phrasebook is also recommended
We know because we go: every Lonely Planet guide is 100% researched and updated by our authors on-the-ground.
For 30 years, Lonely Planet has been the backpackers' bible for South America. Whether you're trekking the Andes, gliding through the Amazon or joining a wild festival, our unbeatable 11th edition is your key to adventure.
This multi-country guide covers: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Inside this book:
More maps than any other South America guidebook - over 200!
Eat cheap and sleep easy with budget accommodation and cheap eats
Full-colour highlights chapter with top picks from other travellers
Detailed itineraries help you decide where to begin
Sustainable travel tips and volunteering opportunities
Contains essential phrases but a Lonely Planet phrasebook is also recommended
We know because we go: every Lonely Planet guide is 100% researched and updated by our authors on-the-ground.
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Format:Kindle Edition
i thought that having an electronic format would allow the authors to update informations. prices in argentina have doubled in a year. many times we had ppl at the reception saying "sorry but your guide is out of date. is it the lonely planet?" the book is useful though and i like it. but better dble check prices on phone before . writing from a kindle in posadas argentina. btw, residencial misiones is now charging ar$ 120 for a double (not 60 as book says)
Format:Paperback
Have been travelling using Lonely Planet guides for 15 years and have always seen them as the best of the guide books. Sad to say that both South America on a Shoestring and Central America on a Shoestring were both equally terrible. Main points that frustrated - i) out of date reviews - places marked as good, were now not etc. Info about sites no longer accurate due to the huge time lag between the last visit when you read it, prices not in line etc, ii) the fact that everyone has one so the same average places are overcrowded and they generally overcharge iii) maps that are not accurate (e.g. roads shown over a river that did not exist, wrong placing of accommodation on maps etc), iv) lazy editing for the new addition so that sections of the text contradict the new overviews. The main use I can see for these books is the history sections and 90% of the time the maps also. Better to use other sources of info for where to stay, visit and eat (e.g. other travellers, hostel info boards, Hostelworld, Tripadvisor etc).
Format:Paperback
this book is great, excellent maps, accurate travel information and contains information on accomodation and restaurants at prices affordable for budget travellers. I only hope they keep it this way, in my oppinion other new lonely planet guide books published in 2011 now contain worse than useless maps and more marketing material than useful information.
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This book was the one thing we couldn't live without when we backpacking through south america. Its provided innvauable advice on hostels, dangers, money, visas, maps, tourist... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Deepak Tailor
Really good
We used it on our honeymoon trip; 10 weeks around South America. I don't think we'd have survived without it. I'm very glad we got it.
Published 6 months ago by A
Great book!
Perfect condition, on time, no problems! Great book, lots of info to help us plan our trip. A bit annoyed at the 'free delivery to Europe, then suddenly a 'export tax' added on?!
Published 8 months ago by Katy Andersen-Young
Great!
Great guide, as all of Lonely Planet's I have not yet been on travel with it, but I am sure I will bring very valuable tips on-the-go.
Published 12 months ago by J. Casanova
Fairly good
Usefull. Seems a little too much information for so many countries and only one book, but suitable for my purposes.
Published 17 months ago by antonio vasco
room in rucksack
this book seems to have been good enough to find its way into my son's rucksack despite his favourite shirt being left behind
Published 19 months ago by classseventysev
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