Laos & Cambodia (Insight Guides) (Paperback)

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Product Description

This 358-page guide to Laos & Cambodia covers all the country's highlights for visitors, area-by-area, illustrated with hundreds of full-colour photographs and cross-referenced with detailed regional and city maps. A detailed essay section includes in-depth features on the countries' history, culture and people. The Travel Tips is a comprehensive listings section, packed with recommended hotels, restaurants, and essential contact addresses and numbers. Key features include: places - region-by-region gazetteer section, with top attractions highlighted and cross-referenced with detailed regional and city maps; essay features - incisive essays on history, people and culture, from its ancient settlers to its contemporary trends; travel tips - comprehensive practical listings section, including hotels, restaurants, entertainment, transport and essential contact addresses and numbers; photo features: magazine-style double-page spreads on culture, wildlife and history; maps: detailed city and regional maps, cross-referenced with the text to aid travel planning and route-finding; and, photographs: hundreds of stunning colour photographs, illustrating all the major sights and portraying the character of the countries.

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: 361 pages
• Publisher: Insight Guides (December 27, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9814120421
• ISBN-13: 978-9814120425
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #580,514 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful...., October 20, 2000

By	"opsysbug" (NYC, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Insight Guide Laos and Cambodia (Laos & Cambodia, 1st ed) (Paperback)

Insight Guides are useful as both travel guides and picture books.The info is short but concise and the wonderful color pics give you a really nice idea about what the destination spot looks like ( or looked like,as the books are also good for memory/photo albums). This volume is very useful for the traveler to the little known countries of Laos and Cambodia as it covers all areas of both countries and not just the big cities and main attractions. I especially found the info on coastal Cambodia interesting as it's hard to find detail on this beautiful place in other travel books. A must for the Asia traveler....

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Information Source for Laos & Cambodia, July 8, 2005

By	William Jones "arizonawill" (Goodyear, Arizona USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This Insight Guide is very complete and informative. Having been to Cambodia, I can say first hand, that this is probably the best tourist guide available for that region.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, June 17, 2004

By A Customer

The photographs in this guide are stellar and the writing is clear and strong. I found every necessary detail needed for planning my trip in this book and learned a great deal about the culture before embarking on my travels. Wonderfully done!