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Summary: Good travel companion
Review: Good up-to-date practical information but the 'things to see and do' part could have been better, as is most other Lonely Planet guidebooks.
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Summary: disapointed
Review: I was dissapointed with this lonely planet guide. Usually i travel everywhere with LP guides and find them excellent, but this ones is out of question a bad guide. I read it often enough to ensure that it may be good for hiking, but for the other things, like going out, hotel, restaurant and of the track (not hiking) it was not enough info and sometimes some not accurate info. I was very dissapointed with this LP guide. Sorry LP, but this one is BAD.thank you
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Summary: Just plain bad - with no redeeming features
Review: I will not be able to add much to what other reviewers have said, but welcome to another opus from Lonely Planet's worst writer, Deanna Swaney. This lady has earned herself a bad name through writing which is more appropriate for an anti-capitalist leaflet and total lack of objectivity. Outdated? Yes, even more so than the guide to Russia. Biased? Yes, pretty much on par with Iceland and Greenland guide. Inaccurate? You bet. Recommendation: Don't touch this with a barge-pole, even if you are a die-hard LP fan.
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Summary: out of date, but helpful for maps
Review: There are a few good maps to get you oriented with La Paz before you go to Bolivia. Most of the restaurants do not exist anymore in this book and the stores do not either. Since there are not many travel books on Bolivia, this one is one fo the better ones, but it's a shame that there are not any better ones. Although this book is a good introduction to Bolivia and La Paz, it's definentely not going to help you much when you get there.
Very outdated!
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Summary: Lonely Planet Bolivia, 4th edition
Review: This latest edition of the Lonely Planet Bolivia book is decidedly retrograde compared to past editions. Lonely Planet has been famous and widely appreciated for its detailed insider information drawn from the "grassroots" - local people, as well as people who use the book. This book seems to be reversal from this tradition to a significant extent. For example, in the section on Bolivian Amazonia covering Madidi National Park, only one multi-national provider of guide and visitor services is mentioned. In fact there are several, some of which are very good, and even superior in some respects - depending on what you're looking for. Such resources for the region were covered in past editions but not in this one. It leads one to wonder what either the author or Lonely Planet was really trying to achieve when they published the 4th edition.
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