Don't travel without your guide book...
The guide book is your best friend during your entire trip. It is very important to choose the good guide before leaving. The relation between a traveler and the guide book should be based on confidence and trust and it can even be transformed into "dependence". You do what it suggests to be done, you visit what it refers to as being important, you sleep where it brings you and you come back partly with the ideas, the opinions and the vision of this guide (even if all the guides claim to be neutral). It is thus important to well choose once guide, to know how to use it, to know its forces, its limits and its weaknesses. Someone going on a journey without a guide is likely to miss many important things: meeting points for travelers, the traditional as well as the most exotic ways. An large base of tourist information and the fruit of the experiences of thousands of travelers is available for you. It is a way to meet people who share with you the same interests. Those who would like to meet travelers from the world in a hostel have just to choose "lonely planet". Those who would like to meet French people know where to find them while seeking in the French guide book "Guide du routard". those who like maps use "the Michelin Guide" and those who prefer information detailed with photographs and stories should travel with one of the so many traditional guides. Here, we have selected some guides, and of course the choice remains a personal choice. To choose a guide is like choosing a friend with whom to travel.
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lonely planet The most famous Guide book in the world
The "Lonely planet" is undoubtedly the most famous guide book in the world. This is the most important independent editor of travel guides. Each title integrates a cultural part on the country and practical information about traveling. Actually, in a guide one finds hundreds of addresses, detailed information on how to move, charts, photographs, thematic book sets. If the first French guide goes back to 1993, the first English edition is older and goes back to 1973. Today, all the continents are covered (even the Antarctic). Lonely Planet publishes 500 titles in English and more than 60 French titles.
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Let's Go Une mine d'informations mise à jour
Entirely conceived and written by young adults for their pairs, Let's Go is a series of travel guides that accompanies the free-vif on travels around the globe...
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Foot Print The second most sold guide around the world
This guide is English south American. It was created in 1921 ny W. Koebel. In 1924, it became a specialized guide on south America with the title "South of America in nutshell". Today and for 76 years, this guide is considered as the reference for travels in south America
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Trail blazer The guide of exotic regions
Its philosophy is to cover the regions not covered by the other travel guides. For example it's the only available guide on Azerbaijan. It's has a diversified collection about the trains around the world, mythical itineraries, adventures, etc...
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Fodors The guide for vacations' destinations
The series offers an incomparable insurance of an incredibly diversified set of destinations for your vacations. Frequently updated by resident experts and travelers. There are already 2004 published guides available...
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Le guide du Routard to Travel on a french style
This is nearly the most complete francophone guide. The Routard team presents documented information that is being regularly updated. Obviously, it contains travel advice, links and good addresses that have made its success
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frommers The American Routards' Guide
This guide which appeared in the 1950s (exactly in 1957) has completely changed for Americans the received idea that traveling in Europe is expensive. Today, it is still among the most appreciated guides by the American routards
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Moon An Exceptional Guide
For more than 30 years, these books have collaborated with an eclectic group of travelers, walking students, solo adventurers; families in vacations. The authors have a mixture of honest perspicacity and first rank strategic advice...
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