Travel to Canada

Canada (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Format: Turtleback
Author: DK Publishing
ReleaseDate: September, 2003
Publisher: DK Travel
Rating:

Not Perfect!
However, it contains almost nothing on modern Canada and its cities and also doesn't have much information on Northern Canada. This is a very attractive book with lots good pictures and information on countryside, historical sites and so such. This book is fine for the tourist who only wishes to see historic buildings and Niagra Falls but not very good anyone else. The maps and and information on accomadation, restaurants and so on is also not particularly good, as with most Eyewitness guides.

I LOVE it!
Before I depart for this trip, I spent a lot of time in bookstore and my friend and I finally settle down with a Insight tour book and this one. I just came back from a trip to Canada where I toured Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City and Niagara Falls. We plan on using Insight for Montreal and Quebec, then the rest with DK. As it turns out, my Insight is completely useless. Despite good story telling, it is totally useless when it comes touring around the place, not to mention mistakes everywhere in the book, even in map they messed up a major road. In the end, we used only DK for the entire trip.

In the end, we relied heavily on this book, and find it a great resourse. The colorful pictures gives us an idea of what to expect, and have a feeling of how the city is really like. Also, the descriptions are fairly well-placed, we need not go through the whole book to look for a particular tour site (like the Discovery one). Essential information are listed clearly, and it even contains visiting tour plans.

I just hope that DK can have a book for Quebec province on its own. It is such a beautiful place, I think it deserves a book to itself.

Okay, but does not do much justice to a lot of Canada
Coverage of Montreal and Toronto is very skimpy, as well as the areas beyond the Great Lakes (which isn't covered in too much detail), particularly the Northern and Central parts. I have a number of quibbles with this guide. The great photos do save it quite a bit, though. I hope that next time, DK can make a better guide!.

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