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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 915.970444 EAN: 9781741043068 Edition: 9 ISBN: 1741043069 Label: Lonely Planet Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 540 Publication Date: August 01, 2007 Publisher: Lonely Planet Studio: Lonely Planet Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Discover Vietnam Lie back on your very own junk and enjoy the languid beauty of Halong Bay's limestone outcrops, p.136. Get lost in Hanoi's Old Quarter; sup on streetside pho and toast your fellow diners with a bia hoi, p. 95. Squeeze into the Cu Chi Tunnels and marvel at the engineering ingenuity that kept the VC hidden from enemy fire, p.378. Join the locals in an afternoon pick-me-up of snake's heart and a cup of serpent blood, p.48 In This Guide: Three authors, 133 days of in-country research and 105 maps - more than any other guide. Content updated daily - visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveler suggestions. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Trustworthy, comprehensive with excellent maps.I am reviewing the L.P.2007 guide. Note: most of the other reviews are for older editions, ie. Pre-2007. I was in Vietnam January-February 2007 and used this guide. The guide has maps that are superb and easy to use. Both the accommodations and restaurants I chose from the guide's recommendations were good to very good. The cost for accommodations are listed in dollars, instead of the insipid icons that other guides use. Kudos!!! The restaurants cost quotes are in Dong. Caveat! ... Read More Rating:  - Most up-to-dateThis was a very good guide. I got the Rough Guide, National Geographic and Let's Go and was most satisfied with Lonely Planet. This had the most up-to-date info and mentioned a few things that were not in the other guides. Let's Go might be best for people in their early 20's. All of the guides avoid giving opinions and pretty much list all the tourist destinations. I found the web site [...] to be the best source for recommends on what to see and do and used the guides for hotel information. Rating: - Lonely Planet Vietnam 9 -- LP's best try yetFor the first-time visitor to Vietnam, Lonely Planet's Vietnam 9 overall is a fine production -- and is easily Lonely Planet's best swing at Vietnam -- even if the style police are trying to ruin the show. Vietnam 9 covers all the big-ticket destinations comprehensively, with detailed sleeping, eating, drinking and sights information. There's a detailed orientation section, loads of maps, crystal clear photos and lots of general information. Good coverage on most of the border crossings is ... Read More Rating:  - Totally useless for the independent traveler...I was already very disappointed by Nick Ray's "Cambodia", but "Vietnam" tops it all... Useless information: For example: "Post office - get rid of your stamps here." Do I really need a lecture what a post office is used for? What about opening times? Or if that changes too often - just don't say anything at all. But don't tell me what a post office is good for! For the package tourist the book might be okay. But for the independent traveler it is a horror! Example: "To get to the ... Read More Rating: - Do the page 376 hike. Just be preparedWe hiked to the top of Nui Ba Den (or Black Lady Mountain). LP page 376 says it's a 6 hour trek to the top and back, but we took longer. We didn't ride the cable cars part way up; we walked up from the very bottom. Started 8:40 am, got back down about 6:30 PM, and we rode those lovely cable cars down the last part. If I ever do it again, I'm riding those cable cars up to the trail head. Have you hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon? I have. 5,000 vertical feet down, ... Read More 
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