The Rough Guide to Peru 5 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Rough Guide Travel Guides | Publication Date: October 23, 2003

The Rough Guide to Peru is the ultimate guide to one of the most thrilling countries in South America. It includes comprehensive coverage of Peru''s great sights from the soaring Inca citadel of Machu Picchu to the high altitude Central Railway. There are incisive reviews of all the best places to stay, eat and drink, plus the lowdown on some of the liveliest nightlife in the Americas. Throughout the guide practical advice is given on a range of activities, including rafting and trekking in the Amazon jungle.

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''Rough Guides are consistently readable, informed and, most crucially, reliable'' - Bill Bryson

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Dilwyn Jenkins has been visiting Peru most years since his first trip in 1976. During his time living in South America, he has worked as a journalist, teacher, film-maker, tour leader, fundraiser and rainforest development consultant. He now lives with his family on a smallholding in Wales.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 592 pages
• Publisher: Rough Guides; 5th edition (October 23, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843530740
• ISBN-13: 978-1843530749
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,456,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive - A Very Good Guide, October 11, 2000

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Allan M. Gathercoal "fdoamerica" (Norcross, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Peru, 4th Edition (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

This is a very good guide. After using it for one month in Peru, I was impressed by the solid and pertinent information that this guide supplied.

The guide has three sections: "The Basics," "The Guide" and "The Context." "The Basic" section, which was solid and concise, provides all of the primary travel information that you will need before traveling. "The Guide" section breaks Peru down into six major regions. Each region is extremely well laid out and the standard information for each town or city (accommodations, eating places, sites to see, etc.) is accurate and reliable. "The Context" section is good reading - it handles history, Inca life, music, books, ecology, indigenous rights and the destruction of the rain forest.

Good Guides should have good maps and lots of them. Peru: The Rough Guide does not disappoint - 59 well-drawn maps give you a solid initial orientation. Outstanding are the multiple sidebars chocked full of meaningful - and practical - information about all aspects of the culture you're visiting, which is the hallmark of Rough Guides.

Not helpful was the accommodation pricing codes, 1-8 each representing a price range. More useful is the price grouping used for restaurants: Budget, Moderate and Expensive. Overall, you can't go wrong with this top drawer guide. Highly Recommended.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ditched me!, October 16, 2007

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Charu Khosla (San Francisco, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Peru 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

If you are looking for a travel book, that gives you good descriptions of a tourist site, perhaps this Rough Guides would be a good choice. I didn't read too many of those since I would get a guide usually at a tourist site, but then I sure could see that the descriptions are long and detailed.

But if you are backpacker who is looking for a travel guide that has the correct address/location of a hotel where you plan to spend the night when you reach Arequipa at 8pm, this is certainly not the reliable guide! Well not to mention that in Lima my first two choices of hostals did not have correct location in the map in the book. And then in Trujillo the hotel I chose to go to was shut down...and where really was that creolle restaurant that the book recommended and I wanted to hit that night. And the story goes on - Well sometimes they wouldn't have correct address, and more often than that they would not have the correct location on the map..
You know being off by a couple of blocks matters sometimes ( you just reach a new city, its night, you are alone and tired and want to hit a hostal and sleep).

SO yes since the book was unreliable when I needed it the most, its good points like great long descriptions of sites got overshadowed.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Really Bad Book, September 21, 2007

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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Peru 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

Nothing in this book is up to date. The prices are all incorrect and the descriptions of some places and things are just plain wrong. This book almost ruined my trip to Peru. Stay Away From It!!! I bought it in the first place because I loved the rough guide to Tanzania, and trusted that the guide to Peru would be just as good. I just don't know why Rough Guides allowed this tragedy to be published.