The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia is the essential hanbook to this stunning region, covering nine countries, plus Hong Kong and Macau. The region is rich with magnificent temples, outstanding beaches, spectacular hikes and enchanting towns. For a visitor on an extended trip to the region, this is the ideal guide, full of practical information on getting around within the countries as well as overland border crossings, ferry routes and local flights. The guide offers critical listings of the best places to stay, eat, drink and party - from five-star cosmopolitan luxury to rustic beach huts. There are detailed maps and plans for every region, making trip planning and navigating simple, with hotel and restaurant listings pin-pointed on the maps.
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Written and researched by a team of veteran authors, each contributing their expertise on different countries and regions.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Could easily have been better.,
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)
I am currently travelling around SE Asia with this book, and find it a constant source of frustration. The book could easily have been better.
For instance, one of the things I find most useful in a guidebook is having a decent map of towns I'm going to. However, maps in this book lack grid references, meaning that on the larger maps you can end up spending a lot of time searching for a location. It's also useful to have information on transport options between different areas. This book does provide some information, but often only makes reference towns which aren't mentioned anywhere else in the book and don't appear on the maps provided. At a minimum, I would expect some information on how to move between the major tourist destinations in a country, but this is not always provided. Restaurant reviews lack any indication of the price of the food, and the descriptions are rarely colorful enough to suggest price. The book also spends a considerable amount of space reviewing the last 1000 years of history of the regions involved. I don't mind this, but given that the book is already at over 1200 pages and lacking in other areas, I would have prefered that the writers spend more space addressing the present. If I want the history I can buy a book or go to a museum, assuming I can find them on the maps. I don't know if any of the other guidebooks are better, but I'm definately considering trading this one in.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not a helpful Guide,
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)
I have traveled all over the world. Last year in Argentina I used the Rough Guide and it was great. Unfortunantly this Rough Guide for Southeast Asia was aweful. I found descriptions to be lacking. There was seldom any guidence on how much things cost. The book actually did more harm than good. We visited Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. If we had not brought along a second guide book based on Rough Guide descriptions we would have missed some of the most amazing sights. This was an aweful Guide Book and you should not make the same mistake I made.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wide variety and covers a lot of area,
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)
Fabulous because it covers areas less visited by tourists and give cheap options for loads of things.
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The quickest and easiest way to get to Southeast Asia is by air. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tuk tuk, colonial district, blue marlin, seventeenth parallel, art market, good karma, diethelm travel, pasar sentral, airport express, barrio fiesta, frequent songthaews, chunchiet villages, yellow bemos, attached mandi, losmen rooms, night market sets, tourist shuttle buses, fan cottages, public bemos, express bus station, bemo terminal, jeepney ride, jar sites, nasi campur, bungalow operations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Phnom Penh, Louang Phabang, Chiang Mai, Kuala Lumpur, New Zealand, Cebu City, Khmer Rouge, Kota Bharu, Candi Dasa, Siem Reap, Nha Trang, Tran Hung Dao, Mekong River, World War, Dong Khoi, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kota Kinabalu, Hat Yai, Tran Phu, Little India, Johor Bahru, Puerto Princesa, Chau Doc Browse Sample Pages:
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The quickest and easiest way to get to Southeast Asia is by air. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tuk tuk, colonial district, blue marlin, seventeenth parallel, art market, good karma, diethelm travel, pasar sentral, airport express, barrio fiesta, frequent songthaews, chunchiet villages, yellow bemos, attached mandi, losmen rooms, night market sets, tourist shuttle buses, fan cottages, public bemos, express bus station, bemo terminal, jeepney ride, jar sites, nasi campur, bungalow operations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Phnom Penh, Louang Phabang, Chiang Mai, Kuala Lumpur, New Zealand, Cebu City, Khmer Rouge, Kota Bharu, Candi Dasa, Siem Reap, Nha Trang, Tran Hung Dao, Mekong River, World War, Dong Khoi, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kota Kinabalu, Hat Yai, Tran Phu, Little India, Johor Bahru, Puerto Princesa, Chau Doc Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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