- Paperback: 724 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 11th Revised edition edition (1 April 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 174104927X
- ISBN-13: 978-1741049275
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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Lonely Planet knows Turkey: paraglide over the velvety Mediterranean, haggle good-naturedly in the bazaars or enjoy the views from Mt Ararat, just like Noah and his animals - our 11th edition helps you experience Turkey's best.
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:
Inspiring itineraries to help plan your trip
Unique cultural insights from a Cappadocian horse whisperer and a female Kurdish entrepreneur
Essential information on crossing into Turkey's neighboring countries
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:
Inspiring itineraries to help plan your trip
Unique cultural insights from a Cappadocian horse whisperer and a female Kurdish entrepreneur
Essential information on crossing into Turkey's neighboring countries
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Got back from Turkey after a 2 week road trip holiday in east, central and the east mediteranean coast. I chose this book purely because it's the most up to date one available in the market and kind of covers where we are going. Most of the reviews in the book are relatively ok and lots of things have changed since they did last research. Most hotels are still there and cost has risen up. Overall, the book is written very sparsely but it's difficult as you may end up a 3 volume guide to Turkey. The maps were ok but not brilliant. It certainly caters mostly for travellers who are less mobile than us in the car. So there were hardly any information on travelling in East Mediteranean (like Mersin, Anamur etc) in the car and similarly in the middle like Afyon. Pretty useless - comments like it's better if you have a car so you can see more (But then the more bit just kind of trails off). Nevertheless, as far as standards of LP it achieves its basic level of expectation; a map, a brief description, places to stay and eat. But if you want more than the basic, I suggest look up for more specialist stuff than at this book. For a bog standard LP guidebook, this rates 3/5. Would I suggest you buy it? If you need the one book for your trip and not worry having to lug other books, I would. But if you have extra spaces for other books, then I suggest get something else.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this Lonely Planet guide to Turkey as it was the most recently published book that I could find before my visit to the country during April 2009. I was so glad to have bought it!!
The book is informative, easy to navigate, contained helpful up-to-date advice & recommendations and included some great photographs. If you're looking for a pocket sized guide however this is not the book to choose as it's fairly heavy to carry around with you!
I had a great holiday in Turkey (I visited Ephesus amongst other places, whilst staying in Selcuk/Kusadasi) and I'm now reading up on other sections of the book in preperation for my next visit!
The book is informative, easy to navigate, contained helpful up-to-date advice & recommendations and included some great photographs. If you're looking for a pocket sized guide however this is not the book to choose as it's fairly heavy to carry around with you!
I had a great holiday in Turkey (I visited Ephesus amongst other places, whilst staying in Selcuk/Kusadasi) and I'm now reading up on other sections of the book in preperation for my next visit!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a really helpful book when it comes to traveling. The amount of detail on how you can get from one place to another is really helpful. I used it allot when traveling from Istanbul down the coast and into the Cappadocia area. The book covers allot of subjects, leading to that some of the things mentioned are not that well covered. This is specially when it comes to sights like Ephisos and other similar. The descriptions of the places are not wherry informative and the maps of the sights tell you wherry little.
The conclusion is that this book is wherry useful when it comes to traveling around. But when you are looking at specific sights its not much use other than telling you how to get there and away. However, there are usually more information on the sights itself so you wont be that lost. The maps are quite simple and contain only the bare minimum. This I think is sad, since maps can be a wherry good way of showing information over a city and other places in a easy way. But overall, I would never travel to Turkey again without this book it is far more useful than it is luggage.
The conclusion is that this book is wherry useful when it comes to traveling around. But when you are looking at specific sights its not much use other than telling you how to get there and away. However, there are usually more information on the sights itself so you wont be that lost. The maps are quite simple and contain only the bare minimum. This I think is sad, since maps can be a wherry good way of showing information over a city and other places in a easy way. But overall, I would never travel to Turkey again without this book it is far more useful than it is luggage.
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