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.Morocco (Country Guide)
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by: Anthony Ham

February 01, 2007
This is yet another informative and useful travel guide from Lonely Planet. Almost all the descriptions are very detailed and accurate. I recently came back from a rather short, but power packed tour of Morocco and this guide helped me plan the trip very well.
The supplemental information about the food, sweets, history and culture is very helpful.

It only seems to lack in providing a list of tour companies that can arrange trips into Sahara. It is very difficult for a solo backpacker to plan a trip to the desert without being ripped by the travel agents and the so called faux guides.

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.France (Country Guide)
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by: Nicola Williams

January 01, 2007
I like the Lonely Planet Series very much. It is candid, charming, lotsa tidbits and enjoyable read. I am going to Paris and bought this and the Paris one. My only criticism is that some of the hotels are on the low end, I not sure I would stay in. This series takes a fresh look at Europe and is very up to date enconomically, socially and politically. I found other travel books like reading those translators of literature using British accents for all novels regardless if they are French or Russian or whatever!
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.Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide to Venice (Eyewitness Travel Top 10)
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by: DK Publishing

February 01, 2006
This is a very thorough guide for when you have only a day or two to visit. It actually has way more in it than we could possibly see or do.
Giving the top ten things to see is great for your first visit. It is also great for probably your second or third.

Very helpful, lots of pictures and maps.
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.Sicily (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)
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by: DK Publishing

January 15, 2007
This book is the right size for taking it with you, and all the information you'll need for a successful visit. Lots of great photographs.
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.Fodor's Northern California 2008: with Napa, Sonoma, Yosemite, and Lake Tahoe (Fodor's Gold Guides)
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by: Fodor's

February 05, 2008
For exploring Northern California we depend on three books for guiding us around: Fodor's, because it includes the Napa and Sonoma wine country; Golden Gate Trailblazer for dayhiking the northern coastal areas around San Francisco and Alpine Sierra Trailblazer for the Yosemite-Lake Tahoe trails.
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.Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest (Lonely Planet Travel Guides)
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by: Sandra Bao, Brendan Sainsbury, Becky Ohlsen, John Lee

2008-06
Great book and very helpful for our travels. Many of the prices printed were out of date (Hotels, entertainment, etc...) but prices change often so just call and check.
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.Morocco (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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by: DK Publishing

September 06, 2004
Though many swear by the LP guides, my Eyewitness guide did me well during my recent 10 day excursion through Marrakesh, Fes, and Casablanca. It's not so great for finding hotels and restaurants, as well as many "big picture" details (like where to find walking tours, etc.), but the history sections at the beginning of the guide were incredibly informative and helped me understand the culture and background of the people before I went, and the pictures (both photos and illustrations) and descriptions of the sites are great. Especially important since in Morocco, if there's a non-Arabic description of anything, it's typically only in French. Finally, it's a good keepsake at the end of the trip... a great collection of photos of the sights in case you ... Read More:
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.India (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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by: DK Publishing

September 01, 2002
If you don't know anything about India and want to visit this huge country...this guide is perfect for you.
Very nice pictures of all main touristic attractions can help you decide what you want to see and where you want to go. It really inspires traveling there.
I first owned the Lonely Planet which is much better at giving you recommended itineraries and routes to get to specific places, as well as cheap but comfortable hotels, but which lacks the visual part to help decide where to go in the first place.
Both guides are quite heavy and rather inconvenient to carry on a trip. I would recommend making photocopies of important pages only to take with you.
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.Germany (Country Guide)
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by: Andrea Schulte-Peevers

March 01, 2007
The lonely planet was adequate, but not great. It overemphasizes certain sites at the expense of others and conjures a narrow view of the city in question. It is hard to find specific examples, only that I found I used the guide less and less in favor of simply exploring on my own.
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.Frommer's India (Frommer's Complete)
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by: Pippa deBruyn, Keith Bain, Niloufer Venkatraman, Shonar Joshi

March 04, 2008
Frommer's is packed with information, and it's reasonably well organized. It covers a huge and diverse country with a reasonable amount of detail. It's written to appeal to a wide range of travelers, but it's probaly most useful for people who are (1) traveling on their own rather than on a group tour and (2) planning to go mid- to high budget, not low-budget. (Mid-budget in India will get a you a long way -- food, services and rail are amazingly inexepensive as of March '07.)

There's a bit of hysteria in the section on getting ready -- you don't need all those immunizations unless you're going to places where the specific disease is endemic. Check on-line with the US Centers for Disease Control for more realistic advice.

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