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Includes information on how to survive a cyclo ride, escape to the cool comfort of a highland retreat or be hip in Ho Chi Minh City; accommodation options; the scoop on Vietnam's gastronomic delights and the lowdown on how to eat them; and a handy guide to essential local lingo.

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Visitors to Vietnam will notice that, invari , the major streets of every city and town bear the same two dozen or so names. Read the first page

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

useful, but not essential, 5 Oct 2004

By	Elizabeth Horn (Paris) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lonely Planet Vietnam (Paperback)

Anyone heading to Vietnam should consider buying this book- lonely planet always do the job when it comes to providing basic information. However, I found that while I used the maps non-stop and found the sections on local and national history interesting and informative, I only used the sections on food, accommodation and excursions as indicators of average prices. Sadly, the places in the book were often overrun (and therefore overpriced) as a consequence of inclusion, and better deals could ususlly be found independantly. Another problem with the book is that I found much of the information to be out of date- Vietnam is a country in transition to the extent that it would be difficult for any guidebook to keep up with it.
Therefore while this book is definately useful, I don't think it's indispensible- providing you buy a map in each new town you go to, you could get by comfortably in Vietnam without it.

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Don't leave home without it!, 20 Sep 2000

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This review is from: Vietnam (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (Paperback)

For those of you who are planning to make your way across Indochina, it's worth shelling out a bit of extra cash to buy this book (instead of getting one of those "Vietnam-Cambodia-Laos" jobs..). Full of useful information and planning tips, the book also is written in a very chatty style which makes it enjoyable reading. The section on beaches was particularly helpful. The only thing I would like to see more of is colour photos instead of those black-and-white sketches!

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