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Summary: If you buy one guidebook to Peru, this should be it!
Review: This book helped make an independent trip to Peru easy -- considering I don't speak more than 50 words of Spanish! Many Peruvians I encountered were impressed by the quantity/thoroughness of information in the book.
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Summary: Valuable but needs an update
Review: This book is very useful and even necessary if you're planning to go to Peru. However, prices (hotels, restaurants and airport tax...) need to be updated!
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Summary: Great Guidebook!
Review: This book is well organized, presenting important and useful information in an easy-to-read format. Facts about the country and guidance for travel within Peru are included in the first four chapters in the book. The next several chapters are neatly organized by area within Peru. The colored tabs are a great help in finding the different sections of the book. The map of Peru inside the front of the book is in color, giving instant information to the reader about the elevation of the area, along with a brief description of the highlights of the area. Great book!
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Summary: Very Good Guide
Review: This guide is one of the best Lonely Planet guides I have come across. Rob does a very good job at keeping his guide comprehensive, thorough and accurate. That said, I wish the guide contained an expanded section on Peruvian food & drink, and a bigger flora & fauna section, with pictures of the various plants and animals. Many of the dishes commonly found on the menus where not described, and it was hard to identify plants and animals from their descriptions in the guidebook.Also, as usual, the pictures in this Lonely Planet guide leave a lot to be desired. Although the publisher now includes better pictures in its guides, they are still a far way from other guidebooks, like Insight Guides. In my opinion, the pictures in a guidebook should complement the text, illustrating the locations described in the text, enticing the traveler to visit these locations. Lonely Planet in general does a poor job at this. All in all though, this is a very good guidebook, which will come in very handy in your travels to Peru. However, I also recommend that you pick up the Insight Guide to Peru (which you can leave at home), for visual information when you are planning your trip.
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Summary: A worthwhile book
Review: This is one of the few travel guides to Peru available - I hadn't used a Lonely Planet guide before my recent trip, but I found this one chock full of information. Read the first section before you leave, and carry it with you during your trip for on-the-spot access to restaurants, city maps, archaelogical sites, and other get-around info. Highly recommended, although there aren't too many pictures (I had used the EyeWitness series of travel guides on previous trips, and longed for the myriad of photos contained in those books).
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Summary: Handy reference.
Review: This little purse-sized book is a great reference, especially for those who want to see more than Lima, Machupicchu & Cuzco. There are great tips on out-of-the-way places to visit and things to see that many might otherwise miss. The book makes great pre-trip reading or just good dreaming, and there is no doubt you'll find room for it in your briefcase or backpack when you go. ...
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Summary: Best Guide Book
Review: This one will tell you how it is. The best guide book. We successfully navigated through the airport at Lima, the taxi cabs, hotels, restaurants, tours, domestic airlines, scams and the Inca Trail with this survival guide!
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Summary: Another great hit by Lonely Planet
Review: This very recent guide published by Lonely Planet in year 2000 is an indisensable and wonderful tool to take to Peru with you. As always, LP has explored the country, giving you advice on places to stay - from top 5-star hotels to low-budget accommodation - as well as restaurants, transport, etc. There is little or nothing which you won't find in this book, because this guide has it all... Including indispensable advice on local customs, how to deal with people, what to buy, etc, as well as historical, social and political overviews, all up-to-date ! A small piece of luggage, but well worth the weight and the price.
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Summary: Very useful - of course
Review: What else could you expect of Lonely Planet than a very useful guide with nearly all the information you could wish for. It's a miracle they succeed in keeping these books as up-to-date as they do.
Anyway, it helped me a lot during a one month's journey in the Cuzco area.
I just wish the index would be more extensive, although, of course, it would add some extra grams to it.
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Summary: The Best Guide for Peru
Review: Whether you're traveling solo or with a group, the Lonely Planet Guide to Peru is by far the best travel book to pack in your suitcase (or backpack). I'll soon be returning to Peru and have read both the Lonely Planet and Insight Guides. Lonely Planet has the most interesting and useful travel information, and a generous helping of history as well. The guide is compact, and if I have any complaints at all, it's that the small print is a bit hard to read by the end of the day; however, it is easier to pack. There are a lot of great city maps, and they ARE big enough to read. Lonely Planet gives you information you won't find in other guides. They have a personal touch only possible when you've been to the place you're writing about. They helped me travel solo in India in 1988 and 1990 and they are as good as ever in 2001. Thanks Lonely Planet! Keep those great guides coming!
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