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Product Description
This brand new edition Insight Regional Guide to Bali features a wealth of inspiring full-colour photography, including double page spreads of some of the region's most outstanding views. The top ten sights are identified to show you the very best of the region and to help you plan your trip priorities. A brand new 'Best of' section highlights the most unique experiences Bali has to offer, along with personal recommendations on what to see and do. An in-depth 'Places' section covers the entire island, with all the principal sites cross-referenced by number to the accompanying full-colour maps. Additional maps inside the front and back covers enable instant orientation and easy navigation. Colour-coded sections cover history and interesting features on everything from art and culture to the local people. A comprehensive 'Travel Tips' section details transport, accommodation for all budgets, eating out, activities, and an A-Z of other practical information, including useful contact numbers, to ensure your trip goes smoothly. The unique combination of insightful exploration alongside practical advice means that this guide truly is a pleasure to read before, during and after your visit.
About the Author
Since 2000. Hammond, American Map, Langenscheidt Dictionaries, Insight Travel Guides, Delorme – the famous names in the Langenscheidt family. These represent the most authoritative, up-to-date, and extensive travel and reference products available. In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Product Details
- Paperback: 292 pages
- Publisher: Insight Guides; Updated ed. edition (June 15, 2009)
- Language: English
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Okay guide, July 22, 2006
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Sam Bronkowitz "Sam" (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Insight Guides Bali & Lombok (Paperback)
I am glad to see Insight guides doing lots of guidebooks again. I used them a lot 15 years ago and appreciated their sophistication and depth. I am just back from Bali and took this new guidebook and a couple of others. Sadly it was just okay. The Lonely Planet guide was better in every respect, especially with regard to its restaurant recommendations. You feel like the Insight guy ate free a lot. But I do appreciate the photography in this book and a lot of its cultural coverage.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Adequate guide book for the first time Bali goer, June 18, 2009
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This review is from: Insight Guides Bali & Lombok (Paperback)
If you've been to Bali before, this guide book probably won't help you discover out-of-the-way places or off the beaten path restaurants and hotels.The book presents a decent overview of the country, but I didn't think it flowed well in terms of presenting the information for a first time site seeing trip. I got the guidebook for a potential trip and must admit it didn't make the trip rank any higher than fair-to-middlin' on my list of places to go next.The pictures are striking and some very beautiful. The Bali A to Z guide at the end is also helpful to find general information arranged alphabetically. Personally I'd have preferred this to be towards the book's beginning.If you like Insight Guides, this probably rates as one of their B minus attempts. There are some great Insight Guides out there, alas, this isn't quite one of them.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Has good high level maps/pictures, but little by way of reccomendations, February 18, 2007
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This review is from: Insight Guides Bali & Lombok (Paperback)
As we are planning a trip to Bali, this book does not provide you with a concise way to figure out what items are a "must-see" in Bali. It does have nice high level maps of each area of Bali (and Lombok - if you are interested) and colorful pictures, and breaks it up by region, but in no way helps you figure out what part of Bali to see, what to see in any part (and what isn't worth it) and where to stay. It is more a data repository of info rather than a perspective about what is good/bad. So if you want a list of everything with info about it, and not reccomendations, this book is good. If you haven't been there and need reccomendations, then this is not the book for you.
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