Turkey (Lonely Planet Country Guides)

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James Bainbridge

Brett Atkinson

Jean-Bernard Carillet

Steve Fallon

Joe Fullman

William Gourlay

Virginia Maxwell

Tom Spurling

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Turkey (Lonely Planet Country Guides)

Lonely Planet knows Turkey: paraglide over the velvety Mediterranean, haggle good-naturedly in the bazaars or enjoy the views from Mt Ararat, just like Noah and his animals - our 11th edition helps you experience Turkey's best. Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip. In This Guide: Inspiring itineraries to help plan your trip Unique cultural insights from a Cappadocian horse whisperer and a female Kurdish entrepreneur Essential information on crossing into Turkey's neighboring countries

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Turkey (Lonely Planet Country Guides)

Book:
Turkey (Lonely Planet Country Guides)
Author:James Bainbridge,Brett Atkinson,Jean-Bernard Carillet,Steve Fallon,Joe Fullman,William Gourlay,Virginia Maxwell,Tom Spurling
ISBN:174104927X
ISBN-13:9781741049275, 978-1741049275
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2009-04-01
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Number of Pages: 724 pages
Language: English

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Useful, but more sight info

This is really useful for getting you around the country and very utilitarian in that sense. However, it lacks sufficient information about many of the sites (or any in some cases). This is understandable though, as given how many sites there are, it would have to be a huge book to include info on all of them. In some sites, you can just pay for a guide, but obnviously that gets expensive after a while.

Oh how i wish i did not have this on a kindle

I like my kindle a lot - i do, but a warning to travelers - unless you plan on reading this book cover to cover and committing every detail to photographic memory, do not put it on an e-reader. I thought it would be so great to liberate myself from carrying a phone book sized anchor with me.. but boy, was i wrong. It's almost impossible to find anything in it. For example - if you want to know when the Istanbul Modern closes, like i did today, i had to do a time consuming search with let me to various schedules for travelers spending one, two, three days in the city.. then i went to the Istanbul section and clicked through about 50 clicks until i finally got to the museum's introduction .. it was so frustrating. Also, forget the maps - the Kindle renders them in to gray blobs that have no use other than inspiring more clicking. Alas, its better to carry the real thing!

Book is great compared to others, but lets be logical its TURKEY!!!

Okay first off, this reviewer is turkish and has been all over turkey for years from small towns to big cities. I stayed in dumps and magnificent 5 star hotels. This book is great for a portable reference (compared to what else is out there) I would also recommend rough guide's Turkey. Furthermore, I hear many people ranting on here about how the book doesn't rate this or is not located where it is. I'm going to be honest check the internet before you go. In Turkey if a website is not offered for a hotel over 80% of the time they are going to be "shady" as far as the people who are there and business, not all turks are friendly. As far as how they rate towns like Kusadasi and Bodrum, people need to understand every town or city has a rundown (ghetto) neighborhood. I've been to places like Kusadasi and find it very nice, but also on that aspect very touristy. Also, some cities exist just for tourism (no real turks live there) such as a city like Kas. Don't believe me then visit and see the ridiculous prices for restaurants and crappy souvenirs. If you want real Turkey this book will help you find it, but expect a few inaccuracies just because its written by a team of "westerners" who can't figure out which way is which in Turkey, direction wise. Most likely for the reasons of having pensions listed in the book with a map and location but not located where they are once you get where this book tells you.
So TRAVELERS understand ONE THING!!! Turkey is NOT England or USA Turkey is not far from a Third world country, a second world country possibly. You will find frequent power outages, inadequate roads, transportation is great in Turkey, but understand that staying at a pension in Turkey is not like staying in a pension in America or a hostel in Germany. You will get shady characters and sometimes bad business. In turkey there is glamour but on the beaten path expect wires hanging in the shower and expect small basic rooms, not no dang Hilton everywhere you go. So enjoy this book and enjoy Turkey but please keep an open mind and PLAN before you go stay at a pension that doesn't have a website or doesn't have even pictures online. Use this book along with [...] and you will have a better trip.
Sorry for the ranting...

Not useful for Eastern Turkey; Rough Guide better

Much of the information provided regarding the East gives one the impression that the authors did not actually visit the places they wrote about. For example, my traveling partner and I took the advice of the guidebook and took a tour of Mt. Nemrut with Harran-Nemrut tours based out of Urfa. The guidebook stressed that this tour company was run by someone who spoke fluent English and ran things efficiently. Instead, we were outfitted with an insufferable guide who forced my traveling partner to translate for the entire day. In addition, the guidebook is riddled with Turkish spelling errors (in case this matters to you) and contains multiple wrong telephone numbers for hotels. I recommend the Rough Guide to Turkey as a superior source of historical information and traveling tips. Once we stopped using Lonely Planet and just used the Rough Guide, we had much better luck.

Kindle version useless

I just bought the Kindle iPad version of this guide. It's a complete failure, utterly unusable. You can't search the book, and have to go through about 28000 (!) indexed "locations" to navigate it. So, if you are looking for a specific place like, say, Dat�a, you really need to flick through all the pages to find it. It's really a piece of crap and I'd never recommend anyone to buy this version.

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