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South India is the steamy heartland of the subcontinent, a mind-shaking mix of state-of-the-art and timeless tradition where everyday life is intimately intertwined with the sacred. Sarina Singh, Lonely Planet Writer
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Inside This Book
85 maps
228 days of on-the-road research
1476 detailed reviews
5151km of stunning coastline
Inspirational photos
Clear, easy-to-use maps
Comprehensive planning tools
Volunteering feature
In-depth background
At-a-glance practical info
Our Promise
You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about, each and every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage, and you can rely on us to tell it like we see it.
Inside This Book
85 maps
228 days of on-the-road research
1476 detailed reviews
5151km of stunning coastline
Inspirational photos
Clear, easy-to-use maps
Comprehensive planning tools
Volunteering feature
In-depth background
At-a-glance practical info
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent book if you travelling to South India. Its been released recently and as such, its up to date. I relied on this guide heavily on my recent trip - in terms of what to see/where to eat/reviews of hotels/restaurants/the history - everything. Its one of my most thumbed through lonely planet guides. LP have changed the structure slightly - ie: putting a lot of the historical information etc at the back of the book instead of the front. They have introduced a new item - called TOP CHOICE - which would mark a restaurant/or a site/ or a hotel as TOP CHOICE. Where we went to the item marked TOP CHOICE, it really would be as it was described. And that was the beauty of this guide. What it described was exactly as it was when you get to that place. This was very useful and enabled us to make good choices.
Well done LP - really made our trip having this guide.
Well done LP - really made our trip having this guide.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have been using lonely planet for years and really thought that they were the best travel books. I had just spent a year travelling around South America using the Lonely Planet shoe string guide and really trusted the brand. Then I bought this book to go to India with for three months. It is a new format, which doesnt bother me, but to my disapoitnment the BBC who now own lonely planet have removed the things that made the books so good. Most notabley the maps are now worse than useless. They no longer show the wider context of the city and omit most of the street names in the local area you are in. This is really bad, as unless they expect you to only ask a taxi driver for the street that something that they recommend is on, you will get completely lost and wont have a clue where you are. I will not be buying a new edition of lonely planet unless they go back to there old format that included really helpful maps, which were the main reason I bought their books for the last ten years. I have decided to try to buy a second hand edition of an old lonely planet book in the meantime so that I can actualy find my way around the cities that I visit.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this guide for a recent trip to India, visiting Goa, Hyderabad, Kerala (Fort Cochin and Alleppey)and Mumbai. I usually buy two guides and the other I bought was Footprint's India India Footprint Handbook (Footprint Handbooks). I was attracted to both because I like Footprint and Lonely Planet but also because they had just had a recent edition come out Sept 2011 - in my view recent is always good in travel guides.
I think this guide says it is the South India section from the Lonely Planet India guide. It appealed to me because it was a bit smaller and easier to pack than a second all India guide.
We liked this guide a lot, it has small maps, useful information and brilliant recommendations for where to eat. We tried many of the Top Choices and they were all interesting places to eat.
The maps were good and gave us quite a good idea of where to go and how to get there but weren't completely accurate and left us a bit lost at times. We were usually able to work it out but it is a bit frustrating. The guide wasn't as good at providing information on the historic sites and museums as the Footprint India guide.
We were very happy overall with this guide and would recommend it.
BTW my friend bought the same version for their Kindle and we didn't find it as useful - very frustrating, because you feel that Kindle editions of guidebooks would just make travelling so much lighter. Mostly I think we were struggling with finding things, we could flip through the book but with the Kindle edition you had to guess at how things were spelled.
I think this guide says it is the South India section from the Lonely Planet India guide. It appealed to me because it was a bit smaller and easier to pack than a second all India guide.
We liked this guide a lot, it has small maps, useful information and brilliant recommendations for where to eat. We tried many of the Top Choices and they were all interesting places to eat.
The maps were good and gave us quite a good idea of where to go and how to get there but weren't completely accurate and left us a bit lost at times. We were usually able to work it out but it is a bit frustrating. The guide wasn't as good at providing information on the historic sites and museums as the Footprint India guide.
We were very happy overall with this guide and would recommend it.
BTW my friend bought the same version for their Kindle and we didn't find it as useful - very frustrating, because you feel that Kindle editions of guidebooks would just make travelling so much lighter. Mostly I think we were struggling with finding things, we could flip through the book but with the Kindle edition you had to guess at how things were spelled.
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Lonely Planet doesn't really work on Kindle
Quite apart from the excellent review by sasparilla which notes that the quality of the maps has decreased enormously, and this is true, they have made no effort to adapt the... Read more
Published 20 days ago by H. M. Sykes
Great travel guide
I have recently returned from a trip to Mumbai & Kerala & found the book very useful. Only negative comment is that some of the commentary is slightly misleading about the serenity... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Sasha
Dont bother
We ordered this book in advance of a trip to South India and returned it imediately. It is really just not worth the money, there wqas no more information than in the main India... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Ally D
Prompt service
Product arrived before anticipated. It is brand new, only just released. The book is in excellent condition. It is light to carry in a back pack.
Published 7 months ago by Susan N. Williams
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