Footprint Vietnam Handbook (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

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"Painstakingly researched, comprehensive, well-written and, perhaps best of all, opinionated." Business Traveller. Asia -Pacific

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The Footprint Vietnam Handbook is the most up-to-date guide available to this increasingly popular destination. The country's coastline stretches nearly 2,000 miles, but there is more to Vietnam than beaches. This thoroughly revised guide shows you what else is on offer in this friendly developing nation. From outstanding background information on Vietnam's modern history and invaluable pointers on learning the language to mouth-watering details on local cuisine and the best places to sample it, this guide will appeal to whatever the traveler is seeking. It takes you to the best locally produced goods on offer and provides valuable shopping tips for once you're there and helps you find the best place to stay with up-to-date listings and advice on how to escape the hoards. Footprint travel guides are synonymous with discovery and adventure -- their purpose is to convey the very essence of a destination and to feel its pulse. Eye-opening, accurate, and reliable information is given in each guide, ensuring that every trip is memorable, enlightening, and informing. Footprint's guidebooks are the future of travel, stressing a sensitivity to local issues.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Footprint Handbooks; 3rd edition (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1903471311
• ISBN-13: 978-1903471319
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,354,085 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Rough Guide better than Lonely Planet, Footprint, January 11, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Footprint Vietnam Handbook: The Travel Guide (Paperback)

Just came back from a three week trip to Vietnam with three books: the Lonely Planet, the Rough Guide, and Footprint Handbook.

The Rough Guide is the best guidebook around for the country. It is superior to the Lonely Planet guide in the breadth and depth of coverage and especially its accuracy. I liked LP for other countries but here they did a very poor job.

I have not found even one instance where Lonely Planet provided information that Rough did not have. If you are traveling to the north, you may want to consider reading Footprint before you leave -- it has some interesting information.

Also, all hotels -- even the top ones -- can be negotiated down in price. Send them an e-mail and ask for special rates, corporate rates, etc. You can stay at the Metropole in Hanoi for less than half their rack rate.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent coverage, November 23, 1999

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This review is from: Footprint Vietnam Handbook: The Travel Guide (Paperback)

As a former expat in Saigon with family and friends all along the Mekong Delta, I'm naturally interested in the precision and breadth of guidebooks on SE Asia. This one from Footprint seems to cover all the bases in a detailed and realistic fashion. Since there's always uncovered terrain, it's the one I'll bring on my next trip over. And for new visitors, I'd also recommend the video "Raise The Bamboo Curtain: Vietnam, Cambodia and Burma", available from Amazon.