The Rough Guide to Guatemala 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

By Iain Stewart

Book Overview

The Rough Guide to Guatemala is the definitive guide to this fascinating Central American country. Its detailed accounts of attractions and full-color maps show you everything Guatemala has to offer,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405390093
• ISBN13: 9781405390095
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Rough Guides
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The best guide book for Guatemala

I recently spent six weeks in Guatemala, and I was able to visit most sections of the country. Although the Rough Guide book was the only guidebook that I brought with me, I have looked through the lonely planet book quite a bit and also the guidebooks from the other travel publishers. I believe that the Rough Guide version is the best guidebook for Guatemala, hands down. I have read the book literally from cover to cover...

The best guidebook I've used to date

I just returned yesterday from 10 days in Guatemala and Belize and found the Rough Guide invaluable. I went with 7 friends and between us we had Lonely Planet's "Central America", Lonely Planet's "Guatemala" and Fodor's "Guatemala and Belize". The 2 of us carrying Rough Guide were in the most demand and we relied on it for all our housing and most of our eating recommendations. In addition, the book begins with 33 things...

The Best Guide for Guatemala

This is my personal favorite. We used it a lot on our trip through the Western Highlands and Tikal. It has good maps, from city to national scale. It has something of interest to say about many places, including small villages. It presents lodgings in a logical manner. I found it easy to use. This guide gave us a pretty good overview of places, although it appears that unlike in many very studied/touristed places...

Best of the best

I traveled to Guatemala Dec99=Jan00. This book was great. Information was accurate and informative. In Chichicastenango I recommend the Hotel Chalet Buy this book.

Informative and useful

When I traveled to Guatemala I found this guide invaluable. Particularly useful were the listings of hotels, the maps, and the information on bus routes; I always found them accurate. The book includes a plentiful amount of historical background that is essential to understanding this colorful and complex country.Although this book is aimed at the independent tourist traveling on a budget, the wealth of information it provides...