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Footprint South American Handbook 2004

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Footprint South American Handbook 2004, 80th edition, is largely the achievement of experienced Editor and writer Ben Box, who has a doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese studies from London University and many years of extensive travel in South America. This handbook is far more than a travel guidebook. This book is like having a personal guide who goes ahead of you and tells you what wonderful things to expect, how to plan for them, and how to avoid the pitfalls and dangers involved in whatever place in South America you wish to go, no matter how populous or how remote your destination or mode of travel. With some full color photos and maps and many detailed maps and descriptions of small areas, this is a book to pour over as you plan any trip to South America. The handbook details points of interest, details about transportation, eating, sleeping, emergency information, climate, festivals and shopping in each place, as well as some historical information in a far more comprehensive way and more thoroughly than any other travel guide we have seen. All the contact information for each place is there for phone, address, email, and fax. Footprint Handbooks are a MUST for almost any destination you could choose. Footprint South American Handbook should be your first purchase before making any plans to go to South America. With this book your trip can be planned by you or your travel agent to suit your every need, including your budget, so that you will not have any unpleasant surprises as you travel in the earth's most exciting continent.

When I went on my overland trip to South America I took this one and Lonely Planets. I have to be honest and say that both guides complemented each other but I used Lonely Planets guide more often. I guess it would be a matter of preference.