Lonely Planet Bolivia (Lonely Planet Bolivia: Travel Survival Kit) [Paperback]

Deanna Swaney (Author)

Book Description

Series: Lonely Planet Bolivia: Travel Survival Kit | Publication Date: March 2001

Includes Amazon and Andes treks. This guide gives the lowdown on the high ground - hiking the Cordillera Real, one of the loftiest ranges of the Andes, complete with trekking maps, and includes advice on how to stay healthy and travel safely. The language section includes Spanish, Quechua and Aymara.

Product Details

• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 4th edition (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0864426682
• ISBN-13: 978-0864426680
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,050,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #80 in Books > Travel > Latin America > South America > Bolivia

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disapointed, July 16, 2002

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Arturo Bodenstedt Engel (Mexico, D.F. Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Bolivia (Lonely Planet Bolivia: Travel Survival Kit) (Paperback)

I was dissapointed with this lonely planet guide. Usually i travel everywhere with LP guides and find them excellent, but this ones is out of question a bad guide. I read it often enough to ensure that it may be good for hiking, but for the other things, like going out, hotel, restaurant and of the track (not hiking) it was not enough info and sometimes some not accurate info. I was very dissapointed with this LP guide. Sorry LP, but this one is BAD.

thank you

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lonely Planet Bolivia, 4th edition, June 21, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Lonely Planet Bolivia (Lonely Planet Bolivia: Travel Survival Kit) (Paperback)

This latest edition of the Lonely Planet Bolivia book is decidedly retrograde compared to past editions. Lonely Planet has been famous and widely appreciated for its detailed insider information drawn from the "grassroots" - local people, as well as people who use the book. This book seems to be reversal from this tradition to a significant extent. For example, in the section on Bolivian Amazonia covering Madidi National Park, only one multi-national provider of guide and visitor services is mentioned. In fact there are several, some of which are very good, and even superior in some respects - depending on what you're looking for. Such resources for the region were covered in past editions but not in this one. It leads one to wonder what either the author or Lonely Planet was really trying to achieve when they published the 4th edition.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars out of date, but helpful for maps, June 18, 2003

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mitzigg04 "mittzigg" (VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lonely Planet Bolivia (Lonely Planet Bolivia: Travel Survival Kit) (Paperback)

There are a few good maps to get you oriented with La Paz before you go to Bolivia. Most of the restaurants do not exist anymore in this book and the stores do not either.

Since there are not many travel books on Bolivia, this one is one fo the better ones, but it's a shame that there are not any better ones.

Although this book is a good introduction to Bolivia and La Paz, it's definentely not going to help you much when you get there.
Very outdated!