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Title: The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia by Jeremy Atiyah, Stephen Backshall, Jeff Cranmer, David Dalton, Jan Dodd, Paul Gray, Jonathan Knight, Charles De Ledesma, Rough Guides ISBN: 1-85828-893-2 Publisher: Rough Guides Pub. Date: 24 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The "Accurate and Well Designed" Guide to Southeast Asia
Comment: I spent March '04 doing a whirlwind tour through Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia with the Rough Guide book as my bible. Traveling as a solo woman, it provided me security and companionship. Although not 100% accurate due to changing environments, it's pretty close. I planned all my trips including tourist sites, guesthouse stays, restaurants, and shopping with the book.
The book is planned out intelligibly starting with overview advice including top recommended sites in the region and then proceeds alphabetically through the countries. Each country section first highlights top sites and provides great overviews including well highlighted logistical requirements (visas, transport, air departure taxes, etc) and concise information for the top cities including maps with the tourist sites and reviewed guesthouses and restaurants all clearly marked.
Whereas some travelers enjoy traveling ad lib sans guidebook, they regretted not having the price information on hand. In this regard, the Rough Guide was excellent in letting you know accurate fares for tourist activities including, for example, the fair price for motorbike rides on the Hue mausoleum tour and each of the associated entrance prices. This information is important as most transactions require haggling. It also warned against common ruses like being told falsely in Bangkok that some of the main sites are closed.
The only thing I found lacking was that there were no timeframes mentioned for each of the suggested tour activities. This was only a problem for me because I had a compressed schedule to see all four countries. However, the longer I traveled, the better I was able to gauge the time I expected to visit a site given the detail of the book's description and also by visiting the ubiquitous tour agencies to compare against their scheduled tours (and often sign up for them).
Altogether, I recommend this book. I had originally wanted the Lonely Planet, but their SE Asia copy was much older (they're just releasing the latest version now) and so ended up with the more recent Rough Guide. But I've been very pleased and traveled confidently with this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Covers a veritable wealth of available activities
Comment: The Rough Guide To Southeast Asia is a comprehensive and superbly organized travel guide to Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Enhanced with a full-color illustrated section introducing Southeast Asian highlights, The Rough Guide To Southeast Asia provides the traveler with accounts of destinations ranging from urban city nightlife to beautiful isolated beaches. A compendium of reviews for the best places to reside, the best foods to eat, the best drinks offered, and the best places to party, The Rough Guide To Southeast Asia also covers a veritable wealth of available activities ranging from a sunrise climb up Mount Bromo to boating down the Mekong River, to diving into the waters off the Philippines. Profusely illustrated with maps and plans for every region, as well as dependable transport details (including border crossings and island ferries), The Rough Guide To Southeast Asia is "user friendly" and highly recommended for anyone planning a visit anywhere in the exotic countries and climes of Southeast Asia.
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