Fodor's South America, 8th Edition

By Fodor's Travel Publications Inc. and Fodor's

Book Overview

Fodor's. For Choice Travel Experiences. Fodor's helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you're at the helm, Fodor's offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It's like having a friend in South America -Updated frequently, Fodor's South America provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guide book. -Fodor's South America features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime. -If it's not worth your time, it's not in this book. Fodor's discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor's Choice designations, ensure that you'll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in South America. -Experience South America like a local Fodor's South America includes choices for every traveler, from glacier-trekking in Patagonia and camping in the Amazon to dancing all night in Buenos Aries or Caracas -- and much more -Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include "Top Reasons to Go," "Word of Mouth" advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls. -Use our expanded selection of maps, including regional overview maps to help you get your bearings and new detailed maps for each main town or city. Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400006864
• ISBN13: 9781400006861
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Fodor's Travel Publications
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Travel

I have only been using it as a reference to plan a trip. Haven't taken the trip to measure its accuracy.

Fodor's South America

We are about to go on a cruise to South America and are planning to spend a few days at the cities where the cruise starts and stops. This book has given us ideas of what to see and where our hotel is located. Very helpful.

Fodor's South America

Fodor's "South America" is a comprehensive guide to all 10 countries of that continent, which concentrates on cities and major attractions, in 653 pages. It is arranged logically and uniformly, with an index and table of contents that make it easy to locate information.The yellow-tabbed pages upfront contain smart travel tips for South America in general, and the book is then divided alphabetically by country, with sections dedicated to 2-7 of each country's major cities and regions. Although it is a good guide for large cities and major tourist sites, it deals with outlying areas with a broad brush, if at all.Each city or region's section contains extensive listings under the headings of Top Attractions, Lodging, Dining, Museums, Nightlife, Shopping (including flea markets), Outdoor Activities, Day Trips, and those wonderful City Walks that Fodor's designs. Following all of those headings is the "A to Z" section for each city, where one can quickly find information on how to get to hotels from the airport, bus station or port; how to get around within the city; locations and hours for banks, post offices, etc.; tour operators and where to find tourist information.Listings are of the type that would interest those who enjoy accommodations that are cream of the crop in their price categories, good dining, the arts, and shopping, with cost not being the first consideration.On the down side, as with any comprehensive guide to a vast area, details are not as extensive as they would be if the entire book were dedicated to one country. However, if you plan to cruise or fly to several South American capital cities and only want to stuff one guidebook in your bag, this is a good bet.On the other hand, if you dream of off-the-beaten-track places and your budget calls for you to eat, sleep, and travel on a shoestring, or if you're looking for student hangouts and hostels, you should keep looking.