Advantages: Very, VERY detailed; excellent tips and advice; good lot of maps; very useful for before travel and during Disadvantages: None I can see - perhaps may be *too* detailed for some?
...help - so I got the The Lonely Planet Guide and The Rough Guide to SE Asia. This, however, is a review of the latter - I have also reviewed the LP Guide for what I hope will be a useful comparison.
The book may be expensive at £12.99 but you certainly get your money's worth. Ignore the title 'Rough Guide' - it's just being modest. This is anything but a 'rough' guide - it is, in fact, incredibly detailed. While the Lonely Planet books are good in ... ...giving you the real basics to start you off, The Rough Guide is essential reading for anyone that's going travelling for an extended period of time.
Why? Well, I'll tell you for why. The RG (Rough Guide) covers each country in extraordinary depth - for example there are 70 pages of small type on Cambodia alone, and Cambodia is one of the smaller SE Asian countries. And it's not just pages of waffle, either. You can tell that for each page, an incredible ...
nikeair 22.01.2001
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