Vietnam
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- ISBN13: 9781741791594
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Experience the best of Vietnam with Lonely Planet. Our 10th edition is so full of practical information that you’ll be watching the sunset from a junk on Halong Bay, sucking back bia hoi street-side in Hanoi, or bargaining like a local in Ho Chi Minh City in no time.
In This Guide:
Detailed itineraries on beaches, food, the Ho Chi Minh Highway and more
Comprehensive information on everything from food and language to health and transport
Full-Color chapter on the hill tribes of Vietnam
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The book was in A-1 condition. The content very informative and worth the buy.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
We 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.
Ongoing 8:40 am, got back down about 6:30 PM, and we rode persons lovely cable cars down the last part. If I ever do it again, I’m riding persons cable cars up to the trail head.
Have you hiked to the bottom of the Grand Gap? I have. 5,000 vertical feet down, 5,000 vertical feet back up.
Black Lady Mountain is 3,000 vertical feet up, 3,000 back down. And I can tell you it’s a much tougher trail than the Grand Gap. Grand Gap trails (both of them) are hands-free trails. That is, unless you want to occupy a hand with a walking stick, your hands are free to juggle hacky sacks, etc.
The Black Lady Mountain trail requires some hour-long stone scrambles, and in some parts you had really better keep three on the rock and only go just one hand or foot at a time. Keep three on the rock. Really.
If you’re no climber (I’m not) your upper body will be about half as sore as your legs the next day, because you are going to use both hands a lot. The next 2 or 3 days, getting up and down stairs was really tough to do, real sore, so factor a recovery slow-down into your travel plans. I was way, way more wiped out than by hiking the Grand Gap.
Don’t try the trail to the top in flip-flops; we saw several sad dead flip-flops. Some nice Teva sandals were fantastic.
Be careful, a terrible fall is possible, a twisted ankle could take place even simpler.
Take plenty of water. We screwed up on that, and were very hot and thirsty when we got down to the cable car station. Victory drinks never tasted so cool and sweet!
Take plenty of water. It’s not hard to do, many vendors at the top of the cable car run.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
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 address what a post office is used for? What about opening times? Or if that changes too regularly – just don’t say anything at all. But don’t tell me what a post office is excellent for!
For the package tourist the book might be okay. But for the independent traveler it is a horror! Example: “To get to the Perfume Pagoda by public transport is too intricate. Take a tour!” What?!?! I thought it’s a Lonely Planet guidebook and not one of these colorful DK travel guides…
Oh well, the only reason to use LP Vietnam is b/c it’s the only guidebook you can get in SE Asia. It is a excellent thought to buy a Rough Guide (I hope that one is better!) in Bangkok/Hong Kong/Overseas and carry it all the way to Vietnam.
On the additional hand: Vietnam is probably not a excellent place for independent travelers anymore anyway (well, of course “off the beaten path” still exists… Thanks for that! But it’s hard to find in Vietnam…)
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I read Lonely Planet of Vietnam and Korea and I establish that it’s not terrible at all. Don’t know why people around here mostly don’t like it. Useful informations, many times updated, rather excellent.
If you prepare to go to Vietnam, visit this site too: evietnamese.net. There are informations about Vietnam and Vietnamese language.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve been using this latest edition of the Vietnam LP during my current trip to Saigon, Nha Trang, Hue and Hanoi. I’ve establish it to be inadequate. Maps provide misinformation, hotel and restaurant information is completely out of date, and choices seem arbitrary. LP dominates the travel guide book market, but they place a lot to be desired.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5