Customer Reviews

Georgia, 3rd: The Bradt Travel Guide

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The Bradt Travel Guide is the best guide to Transcaucasia currently available. The Guide is comprehensive in its scope of coverage of Georgia, with reliable details on sights, lodging, restaurants, etc. -- but the book is most notable for its outstanding background information regarding this little-known region. The history and development of the region, the present political situation, the ecological state of affairs, as well as cultural, religious and culinary background are well covered. Almost as a bonus, the book contains a good chapter for a short visit to neighboring Armenia. The author is an experienced travel writer (see also his "Rough Guide to Romania") and it shows. You really can't go wrong with this book if you find yourself travelling to this fascinating, off-the-beaten-path part of the world.

I just purchased this book for trip to Georgia and have to say it hardly helped me at all. It is laid out ok, but the issue that the country is changing so quickly, a 5 year revision turnaround on this book simply doesn't work. Almost all of the practical information is incorrect about transportation, museums, roadways, etc...

If you are planning a trip to Georgia, this may be slightly useful for one or two sites, but you really need to consult the internet for trip reviews from other sites like Trip Advisor or Virtual Tourist.

I have just returned a month's teaching in Georgia and found the Bradt guide amazingly accurate, current and very helpful. The author knows culture, birds, history and politics. Can highly recommend if you plan to visit.

Like all the Brandt guides I've used, this one provides a wealth of background and planning information for a country with few other comprehensive resources for travelers. Tim Burford writes with clarity and color, making the text a pleasure to read. While no guide can capture every point of interest for every traveler, the Brandt guides always help me find the path to discovering my special places and moments, and the guide to Georgia is no exception.

As with any guide, travelers need to remember that conditions can alter radically in developing countries between the time information for the guide is collected and the time of one's visit.

This is the most detailed travel guide I've found so far on Georgia and for that I am eternally grateful. However, I only give it four stars because some of its directions are inaccurate (in one case, a road was washed out and impassable without a 4WD, though that may have occured post-publication). Double check with maps and the locals before attempting any serious cross-country journeys.

First of all: I'm delighted that Tim used my map (the ITM/ERKAGeorgia) as the guiding line to reach all the sites he mentions,but... Reading the book I often was a little bored because ofunnecessary listings of items in museums (who cares if there's astatue you don't know anything about and only describe what you see?Better rate the museum, whether it's worth the effort or just a wasteof time), very specific ornithological and botanical descriptions(which I think have nothing to do in a general travel guide), and morethan once I had the impression that the author just didn't knowanything about a site and just invented stories... Nevertheless itstill is the most useful guide on the market...