Customer Reviews

The Rough Guide to Costa Rica & Panama Map (Rough Guide Country/Region Map)

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I just returned from Panama last week. I had bought this map to use on a two week trip across most of the country. It is a very pretty map and I like the laminated paper, but it lacks sufficient detail to be useful. It does not have some major routes such as the most used road between Boquete and Al Mirante. It also lacks a blow up of Panama City. The other map (from a Canadian publisher ITMB) is FAR better despite the low reviews it seems to have gotten.

Comprehensive, up-to-date, and a text that is actually good reading as well as being informative. I used this on my second trip to Costa Rica and found I needed nothing else to help me get around. Well, I might have wanted information on city accommodations that were a little more upscale, but that's not really what the Rough Guides recommend.

I have used this map on several trips to Panama and have found it to be excellent and very detailed. Allowed me tog et off the beaten track and explore smaller communities. It is a couple of years old, so it might be missing a couple of roads.