Best Travel Guide?

ColombianoX says on May 20, 2004, 20:37:

Jeremy,

I recommend the Lonely Planet travel guidebook on Colombia. It has everything you're looking for. Unfortunately it only has four pages of pictures, which doesn't do Colombia justice. I found it at my local Barnes&Noble here in the U.S.

Now if you're looking for great photography on Colombia, I really recommend this website: www.villegaseditores.com

This editorial has many books with great photographs of Colombia which you can see online for free and buy.

ColombianoX

ColombianoX 'Defensor de la Colombianidad'

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Sam Salmon says on May 20, 2004, 21:33:

Having recently returned from Colombia and having had the misfortune to use the LP book as a resource I can say without fear of contradiction that it is the worst excuse for a travel book ever written.
Page after page of nothing but old info and outright falsehoods not to mention insults about Colombia and it's people.
The book appears to have been written over the phone using the ancient LP guide and a twisted imagination.
Were I to meet the author in person he/she/it would have a hard time escaping my wrath unscathed.
Whoever wrote that hatchet job isn't just a substandard human being hired to do a job however badly but also a lying skunk of the most odoriferous and loathsome order.
If you need a book the Footprints Guide to Colombia is the best on offer-somewhat out of date but fair and well written.

' a la orden!'

' a la orden!'

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Gator says on May 21, 2004, 08:18:

Doe This Help? What we use, as do many people in Colombia, is called Auto Guia Turistica de Colombia. It's kinda'like the AAA stuff in the USA and comes out every year BUT it is in Spanish. Lists routes on main highways, has maps of the departmento capitals like Cali, Medelllin, etc, restaurants, hotels, points of interest, distances between principal cities, well you get the idea. Costs maybe $20,000 CPO (say $7.50 USD). Their web site is: http://www.directorios-legis.com/ When you get there look on the left side and click Guias Especialaizadas, then Auto Guia Turistica de Colombia. If your Spanish is up to it this is very good and has what you want. I believe it is available in all the major cities.

Some friend had this one when they came to visit. Skimmed through it and it look fairly good. I wrote down the name. If you want to check it out they said it came from Amazon.com. "Footprint Colombia Handbook: The Travel Guide" by Peter Pollard ( I think this is the one Sam refered to). You can get a good road map from the Rand McNally on line book-map store called the Internation Travel Map Colombia.

Is this what you had in mind?

A la orden,

gator

P.S. Agree with Sam Salmon 100% re: Lonely Planet

"Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare" .

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jeremybrett says on May 21, 2004, 08:54:

Thanks! Hi Colombiano, Sam and Gator:

Thanks for the recommendations. I think I'll check out the Footprints and Auto Guia Turistica de Colombia books. (My reading Spanish is quite good, so I think I'll be able to tackle the latter one.) Regarding the mass-market English guides, in all my research it seems most of these books haven't been updated in a few years. Pity.

Thanks again!
Jeremy

http://www.jeremy-brett.net

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