Let's Go Vietnam 1st Edition [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Let's Go Vietnam | Publication Date: November 18, 2004

Brand-new Let's Go: Vietnam is your insider's guide to Southeast Asia's up-and-coming travel destination. Mixing completely fresh text and maps with Let's Go's forty-five years of practical savvy, it's the only guide you'll need to navigate this rapidly changing country. With a focus on alternatives to Vietnam's most visited destinations and a large section on the remote Northwest Highlands, Let's Go will help you escape from the tourist track. Valuable hints, tips, and listings provide the practical know-how to see the sights, experience the culture, and make a difference. Whether you'd rather drift lazily along an Annamese river or strut your stuff in cosmopolitan Ho Chi Minh City, Let's Go can take you there.

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"For independent travelers on a budget, with an emphasis on whatever's hip, fun, or free."
- Associated Press

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Researched, written and produced entirely by students with first-hand experience of budget travel. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Let's Go Publications (November 18, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312335709
• ISBN-13: 978-0312335700
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,000,958 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not useful..., March 31, 2006

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M. Dinh (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let's Go Vietnam 1st Edition (Paperback)

I bought this book and the Rough Guide to Vietnam. Thinking I didn't want to lug around both books, I left the Rough Guide at home and took this one. It seemed like it would be more useful given the proper Vietnamese writing of names/places and the more recent publication date. What a terrible mistake on my part. My traveling buddies had a boot-legged version of the Lonely Planet, which we relied on much more than this guide.

This book lacks information about sites, accomodations and restaurants that was easily found in the Lonely Planet, and was much better described in the Rough Guide. For the places we stayed, the descriptions of the accomodations were sometimes not at all accurate. Maps were also better in the Lonely Planet.

The only thing that was somewhat useful was the nightlife section, but even that was rather sparse in some areas.

Overall, would recommend Rough Guide above this (far above this) and Lonely Planet.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lot of information., January 22, 2006

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C. A. Hendrix (SC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Go Vietnam 1st Edition (Paperback)

Let's Go Vietnam help me a lot on my recent trip to Vietnam. I used it to plan for the stay. It gives more information on hotels and resort than Lonely Plant. Prices are still correct as of January 2006. If I had to take just one I would pick Let's Go Vietnam. A better way is to take Lonely Planet Vietnam and Let's Go Vietnam, which is what I did.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best one out there for maps, June 11, 2011

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kimber - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Go Vietnam 2nd Edition (Paperback)

This is the only Vietnam guidebook which has language tonal markings on the map street names, landmarks, cities/towns, etc. I am Vietnamese-American, so I speak Vietnamese, but don't necessarily know my way around every nook and cranny of Vietnam, so it is super helpful to be able to PRONOUNCE street names to cab drivers, xe om drivers, etc by reading the map, rather than embarrassing myself as a Viet Kieu by trying to sound out the name without any tonal markings, which happens with other guidebook maps that don't have the tonal markings. There are some spelling mistakes, but it is the best one I've seen out there.