Travel to Vietnam

Lonely Planet Vietnam

Format: Paperback
Author: Nick Ray
ReleaseDate: February, 2005
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Rating:

Forget the little stuff
2006. I bought the book before my trip in Sept. There are a few discrepancies, but nothing serious. There are a lot of great hints; like Loc An. I think the volume is coherent and complete. I really like the anecdotal pieces found in the book. I have no complaints and it helped to make my expensive trip to VN a good one.

Buy another book
This LP book on Vietnam though, does not live up to the standards of other LP travel books!

I lived in Vietnam for three months this past summer. I have used LP books for a lot of my travels throughout Southeast Asia and usually am pretty satisfied with my experience. Going through the book, I found out that key details about travel services were missing, maps were wrong, and restaurant recommendations were off the mark. An example of how the book was not up to par: I wanted to plan a trip to Bach Ma National Park while in Hue. Once I arrived, I realized the descriptions of the trails in the book were almost word for word copies of the free trailmap given out to tourist! Nothing new or insightful at all about the descriptions.

I would recommend having this LP book over having nothing, but your better off getting something more reliable.

Happy travels.

"Rather good" rated by evietnamese.net
Don't understand why people around here mostly don't like it. I read Lonely Planet of Vietnam and Korea and I found that it's not bad at all. Useful informations, many times updated, rather good.
If you prepare to go to Vietnam, visit this site too: evietnamese. net. There are informations about Vietnam and Vietnamese language.

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