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Lonely Planet South India & Kerala
Lonely The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet South India & Kerala is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore ancient rock-cut shrines in Ajanta, cruise along the palm-fringed backwaters of Kerala, or fine-tune your bargaining skills at a bazaar in Hyderabad; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of South India and Kerala and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet South India & Kerala Travel The Perfect Lonely Planet South India & Kerala , our most comprehensive guide to South India and Kerala , is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet India guide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer. About Lonely Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. Lonely Planet enables the curious to experience the world fully and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves, near or far from home. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
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544 pages, Paperback
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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