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Lonely Planet South India & Kerala
#1 best-selling guide to South India *
Lonely Planet South India & Kerala is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Admire the regal Mysore Palace, relax on a palm-fringed beach, or cruise through tropical Kerala; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of South India and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet's South India & Kerala Travel Guide:
Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests Insider tips save you time and money, and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including history, art, architecture, politics, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, customs, volunteering, yoga, Hinduism and bazaar-shopping. Over 80 colour maps Useful features - including Walking Tours, Travel with Children, and Women & Solo Traveller features. Coverage of Kerala's backwaters, Goa's beaches, Chennai's urban villages, Bengaluru's sophisticated city life, Ellora and Ajanta's Buddhist caves, Puducherry's French-colonial streets, Mysore's sandalwood markets, and moreeBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices)
Zoom-in maps and images bring it all up close and in greater detail Downloadable PDF and offline maps let you stay offline to avoid roaming and data charges Seamlessly flip between pages Easily navigate and jump effortlessly between maps and reviews Speedy search capabilities get you to what you need and want to see Use bookmarks to help you shoot back to key pages in a flash Visit the websites of our recommendations by touching embedded links Adding notes with the tap of a finger offers a way to personalise your guidebook experience Inbuilt dictionary to translate unfamiliar languages and decode site-specific local termsThe Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet South India & Kerala, our most comprehensive guide to South India, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled.
Looking for a guide focused on India? Check out Lonely Planet's India guide for a comprehensive look at what India has to offer; or Lonely Planet's Discover India, a photo-rich guide to the India's most popular attractionsAuthors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Sarina Si
- GenresTravelIndiaNonfiction
1432 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2011
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A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
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November 15, 2024
I like to read guidebooks when I am going to places that I know little to nothing about and where I need some guidance on how to plan a trip. The Lonely Planet books are better for when you already know where you are going and want to get down to the daily level of details--I no longer use them for where to stay and what to eat, but still find their succinct approach to what to see quite helpful. They also open the book with suggested itineraries, and we are doing a modified one from here.
This region is overwhelmingly large, and I found this slightly less helpful than I usually find these guidebooks, but still worth reading through.
India is an endlessly fascinating country and I find that I know vanishingly little about it.
This region is overwhelmingly large, and I found this slightly less helpful than I usually find these guidebooks, but still worth reading through.
India is an endlessly fascinating country and I find that I know vanishingly little about it.
May 14, 2017
Very good recap and detailed travel book!
December 9, 2019
A good guide that I will use on my travels for sure!
February 18, 2020
Very helpful before and during a trip to India, in the Kerala region, with a group and 2 of my family members, more than several years ago.
May 18, 2012
An utterly mediocre travel guide.
The housing and food suggestions were fairly decent, but the maps were sub-par. Often the maps failed to include key street names or geographic markers, and food, housing, and attraction recommendations were often off-map, which was a problem. And while the book tries to include extensive background information to help readers "understand" South India, the book lacks basic things like a food guide (for example, common Hindi food names: aloo = potato, bhindi = okra, gobi = cauliflower, palak = spinach, etc.; descriptions of the differences between common bread varieties: chapati, roti, dosa, naan, poori, etc.; and descriptions of common dishes or categories of food such as biryani, chutney, curry, dal, korma, raita, sambar, tandoori, vindaloo, etc.). While some food names do vary regionally, in many locations with printed menus likely to cater to visitors, transliterated Hindi is the norm.
In addition, there were a number of inaccuracies in the text relating particularly to pricing (at fixed-price locations), which was disappointing being that the text as published in 2011 and I was in India from January through April 2012.
The book will get you by, but there are likely better offerings out there.
The housing and food suggestions were fairly decent, but the maps were sub-par. Often the maps failed to include key street names or geographic markers, and food, housing, and attraction recommendations were often off-map, which was a problem. And while the book tries to include extensive background information to help readers "understand" South India, the book lacks basic things like a food guide (for example, common Hindi food names: aloo = potato, bhindi = okra, gobi = cauliflower, palak = spinach, etc.; descriptions of the differences between common bread varieties: chapati, roti, dosa, naan, poori, etc.; and descriptions of common dishes or categories of food such as biryani, chutney, curry, dal, korma, raita, sambar, tandoori, vindaloo, etc.). While some food names do vary regionally, in many locations with printed menus likely to cater to visitors, transliterated Hindi is the norm.
In addition, there were a number of inaccuracies in the text relating particularly to pricing (at fixed-price locations), which was disappointing being that the text as published in 2011 and I was in India from January through April 2012.
The book will get you by, but there are likely better offerings out there.
October 17, 2015
Generally solid. I wish it had more on Andhra Pradesh.
January 16, 2019
Basically a smaller version of their India book without really any additional information.
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