Lonely Planet Myanmar: Burma (Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit) [Paperback]

Joe Cummings (Author)

Book Description

Series: Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit | Publication Date: February 1996

-- comprehensive maps, including full-colour with highlights of major attractions
-- practical advice on how to spend money to directly benefit Burmese citizens
-- details on areas newly accessible to travellers
-- special sections on the Shwedagon Paya and the temples of Bagan and Mrauk U
-- revised language section, with place names in Burmese script

Editorial Reviews

Review

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet; 6th edition (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0864423241
• ISBN-13: 978-0864423245
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,110,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #45 in Books > Travel > Asia > Myanmar

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good travel guide, September 12, 1999

By A Customer

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

I like this guide book and look forward to the upcoming revised edition. I disagree with the review below that this guide is "highly derivative". That review is "highly suspect" anyway since it comes anonymously from the author of a competing Burma guidebook.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A typical Lonely Planet, March 12, 1998

By A Customer

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

This book was published in 1996 and many things in Burma have changed since then. Though, it is a very good text for finding upscale hotels and eating establishments, backpackers will be very upset with the outdated cheap hotels and locations for buses. On the other hand this is the best lonely planet that I have seen regarding cultural sites. The drawings and descriptions of Bagan are a real plus if you ignore the sarcastic undertones of the writing. Also, this was my first lonely planet that starting falling apart with a week of normal "travelling" use. I don't think that there is a better guide book to Burma on the market. So you will probably be stuck buying this book and asking the locals a lot of questions when you are in Burma. Luckly the Burmese are very friendly and helpful!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars time for a rewrite, February 25, 2001

By A Customer

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

Having just returned from a month in Myanmar with an LP guide others may find the following comments useful. The prices are woefully out of date. The main tourist centres are covered well but elsewhere the writers must have ran through in a hurry- how did they miss George Orwell's house in Thandwe?

All the pages of chatter about FEC's only confuses everybody, pay US$200 per person and you can use them in hotels licensed for foreigners- not a big deal if you are there for a couple of weeks. If you a really on a budget the airport FEC desk might let you pay for only one person if you are a couple in return for a monetary present.

I thought that this was probably one of the least useful LP guides.