Insight Guides Venezuela (Paperback)

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Product Description
This guide includes a section detailing Venezuela's history, nine features covering the country's life and culture, ranging from its pop culture to its devil dancers, a region-by-region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus hundreds of photographs and 21 maps.

About the Author
Since 2000. Hammond, American Map, Langenscheidt Dictionaries, Insight Travel Guides, Delorme – the famous names in the Langenscheidt family. These represent the most authoritative, up-to-date, and extensive travel and reference products available. In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.

Product Details

• Paperback: 378 pages
• Publisher: Insight Guides; 4 Upd Sub edition (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9812349537
• ISBN-13: 978-9812349538
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #563,729 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best guide to Venezuela, August 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Insight Guide Venezuela (Paperback)

As a Venezuelan living in the US, I've been curious about the way my country is portrayed in tourist books. After having read the 20 or so books available, this one is, in my opinion, the best of the lot and the only one that portrays Venezuela as it really is.

I've found other books and tourist guides to be painfully outdated or irresponsibly inaccurate, but when I read the first edition of Insight Guides Venezuela, I thought: "This is the first book I have found that captures the spirit of Venezuela and its people, that tells it like it is." I can remember the way baseball games, beauty contests, night life, etc., are described. It is all true, and then some...

The writers managed to also accurately describe Venezuelan cities and towns, their different peoples and environments. This book won't try to tell you where to stay in Caracas for $5 a day -practically impossible unless you are very brave and stupid-, but if you plan to go to Venezuela or if you've been there and want to remember it, this is the book to buy. Recommended wholeheartedly.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insight Guides- Venezuela - 3rd, June 10, 2000

By	Carlos "z diver" (Sucre, Vezezuela) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Insight Guide Venezuela (Venezuela, 4th ed) (Paperback)

As an American married to a Venezuelan and living in Venezuela I also whole heartedly recommend this book since it is extremely up to date. I have been using books of this sort to travel the world for some time now and take most of their information with a grain of salt. They may or may not be accurate. That's not the case with this one. You can just about count on things to be as described or very, very close. At this point in time, it's as close to perfect as guidebooks get.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a book for the budget traveller, June 24, 2004

By A Customer

Yes, this book has some great pictures, but is not particularly helpful in terms of practical information. I was also disappointed with the layout of the book. The info regarding hotels, restaurants, etc. was not in the same section as the description of the town.