Discover the seven cities of Delhi with this new guide, the most thorough and comprehensive available.
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra (Regional Guide) (Paperback)
This book offers everything you expect from a Lonely Planet travel guide - background infos you need to know about the country (Do's, Don'ts, how to get by in India on your own, etc.), sights, restaurant and hotel listings and much more for your trip to Rajasthan.
Like most Lonely Planets, it is a bit thin on history and culture, the description of the sights is sometimes very short. The Delhi chapter is extensive, though. You get everything you expect from a LP, but if you are interested in history and Indian culture and religion, buy another book to accompany this LP on your trip.
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Adequate Guide book for Rajasthan, Delhi, and Agra,
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra (Regional Guide) (Paperback)
This particular version of the Lonely Planet Guide Book for Rajasthan, Delhi, and Agra (in India) is adequate. But the similar Rough Guide for the same region is better, having more detailed descriptions and being more visually appealing due to its greater use of color. For instance, the Lonely Planet book has less than 2 pages about Akbar's capital city of Fatehpur Sikri while the Rough Guide book has 8 pages.
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra (Regional Guide) (Paperback)
If you're doing the 'typical' first time trip to India - the Golden Triangle - this is all you need - no reason to have a full guide to India since the south is completely different from the north - carrying a full guide to India if you're just going to Delhi, The Taj Mahal, and say Jaipur, is like carrying a guide to to Poland for a trip to France - I guess that's why Lonely Planet decided to publish this concise guide.
Traveling to India takes a lot of preparation and you discover you forgot to do half the preparation you needed when you get there - this book helps full the gaps, prepare you for the shocks, gives great connection information to the often confusing and chaotic, but surprisingly pretty well ran Indian railways. It also gives you good thumbnail estimates about prices -which is essential for Western travelers as you are continuously the target of price gouging. Highly recommended.
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Delhi has not always been the capital of India, but the city has played an important role in Indian history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
state emporiums, encashment certificates, secretariat buildings, bus stand, diesel buses, boxed text Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Delhi, Connaught Place, Red Fort, Shah Jahan, Connaught Circus, Firoz Shah, Jama Masjid, Qutb Minar, Taj Mahal, Chandni Chowk, Mohammed Shah, Fatehpur Sikri, Hauz Khas, Uttar Pradesh, India Gate, Indira Gandhi, Sher Shah, Bahadur Shah, Shah Alam, Rashtrapati Bhavan, Inner Circle, Sunder Nagar, Lodi Garden, Purana Qila, Yamuna River New!
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Delhi has not always been the capital of India, but the city has played an important role in Indian history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
state emporiums, encashment certificates, secretariat buildings, bus stand, diesel buses, boxed text Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Delhi, Connaught Place, Red Fort, Shah Jahan, Connaught Circus, Firoz Shah, Jama Masjid, Qutb Minar, Taj Mahal, Chandni Chowk, Mohammed Shah, Fatehpur Sikri, Hauz Khas, Uttar Pradesh, India Gate, Indira Gandhi, Sher Shah, Bahadur Shah, Shah Alam, Rashtrapati Bhavan, Inner Circle, Sunder Nagar, Lodi Garden, Purana Qila, Yamuna River New!
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- Rabindranath Tagore (Builders of Indian Philosophy Series) by Pabitrakumar Roy on page 22 (1), and page 22 (2)
- Shah Jahan by Muni Lal on page 16, and page 56
- Bhupen Khakhar (Katha trailblazer series) by Bhupen Khakhar on page 22 (1), and page 22 (2)
- Mahatma Gandhi by Jawaharlal Nehru on page 18, and page 56
- Splendour of Fatehpur Sikri by Chob Singh Verma on page 177
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