Lonely Planet India (Travel Guide)

Essential for any traveller visiting India. We travelled to India for two months in January to March 2016 and visited Goa, Hampi, Kerela, Rajasthan, Delhi, Agra, Amritsar (Golden temple) and Shimla. I found the suggested itineraries useful to provide and overall outline of our trip. The most useful information was on transport, detailing how to get from place to place, which sometimes (when we did manage to get internet) was not even online. A friend had the rough guide which had no transport detail in it, very frustrating to travel with. He even copied loads of notes from our lonely planet for the next part of his journey! Sometimes the detail was a tad out but it gave us more than a basis to get more information when we were there. I'll try to submit any corrections directly to lonely planet. All of the suggested accommodations were good and to the description. Usually we take lonely planet restaurant recommendations with a grain of salt and they were a little hit and miss but overall better than expected and better than some guides of other countries. Yes the book is big, but all guide books on India are, and they have to be for the size of the country. Sometimes I wouldn't have minded more detail! It would be great if both a digital version and paper version were provided upon purchase because sometimes we took photos of the pages to use when out and about due to the book size (later deleted of course!).

Though I adore DK guides, Lonely Planet guides cut straight to the chase and are crammed with useful information. Thus, they are perfect for actually planning a trip once you've sussed out where you want to go. I purchased this particular edition as it contains mapped itineraries at the beginning and details what sort of trips you can make according to the time span you have, the longest one being a six month round trip of India, enabling you to get the most out of your tourist visa. The book is mainly taken up by an exhaustive compilation of activities which can be undertaken and goes through these region by region. At the back there is a large section entitled "Understanding India" which lets you know more about the culture, history etc. and also contains a "menu decoder" which is very useful for those countless foodie words which simply cannot be translated into English! In addition, there is a language section consisting of a good few pages of Hindi and Tamil phrases. In short, this is the perfect resource for planning your trip to India.

The book itself has great content, it is really useful and accurate. The layout is great and easy to navigate. However, it just weighs so much and it became a burden to carry on our journey. I would suggest buying Individual chapters (if this is available?) that are relevant to you based on your destination, rather than carry the whole book of India with you!

Highly recommend, really useful on my kindle particularly when there was many times where internet was unavailable. Gives a good insight on places to visit and costs

Good condition, ideal for exploring.

It's okay. Laughably out of date and written by Indians - the western experience will be very different. Prices are almost always wrong. Descriptions of places to stay and eat are either very detailed or very sparse. Despite the writers, it caters to westerners very heavily in terms of tastes and customs. As a result we occasionally felt we missed the real India, but on the whole it was a good start.

Would not have survived India without this. It was great for food recommendations especially in a country where you don't know which restaurants to trust!

Bought this as a gift for my son who is hoping to visit India later this year. It looks a very informative book as it is very thick, but I'm not sure he'd want to actually take it with him - as it weighs a 'ton!'

各地域の歴史から細かな情報が記載されている。 行き方、タイムテーブル、ホテル等非常に詳しく、英文に抵抗が無ければ地球の歩き方よりも断然良いと思った。

Let's think about this for a moment. One out of every five people in the world comes from India. There are 13 major languages written in 4 major scripts. The geography includes the world's tallest mountains, deserts, tropical rain forest, rivers, lakes and beaches. Every major religion in the world is represented. Politics stretch from communist West Bengal to staunchly conservative Gujarat. There are at least 4 major, distinct types of cuisine. Bombay, Delhi and Calcutta are all among the largest cities on earth, but India is still 80 percent rural. To call this country "epic" is almost silly. To really grasp the reality, it's helpful to think of India as a confederation of affiliated independent countries. Now, the book. One volume that attempts to cover this vastness is, by definition, summary. There's simply no other way to do it. That means that only the highlights are covered in certain areas. But the thing that makes this a really good book is that the writers have sought the special places, the secrets, that can make a trip to India both authentic and rewarding. Without question, India can be an exercise in frustration. It can assault the senses and sensibilities with harsh reality. A book like this serves as a great primer for your impending experience. This book is not so much designed for trekking as it is for urban exploration. It's the kind of guide that helps you plan a trip rather than to guide you once you're knee deep in the muck. It includes nice, concise summaries of each location, followed by rich directories of listings. All this is framed by recommended itineraries, and social and historical contexts to give your travel an anchor in the larger world. This is all standard Lonely Planet material. So there's really nothing new as far as layout or organization of the book, but the listings are right up to date, the recommendations are spot on, and the descriptions of some places have been changed to reflect reality. I noticed, in particular, that the tone of the writing gives more attention to the state of Gujarat, for example, when that state had been essentially dismissed as an afterthought in previous editions. This is your comprehensive, up-to-date guide to India.

Es una buena guía tal vez la letra es pequeña pero pues es muy clara, ojalá estas guías estuvieran en otros idiomas

Con lonely Planet non si sbaglia mai! Comperata per organizzare il mio viaggio in India la guida è attuale e tutto ciò che è recensito corrisponde al vero. Si è rivelata fondamentale in alcuni momenti, non si potrebbe e girare il mondo senza

Book is very helpful and hav lots of details abt every state vise and city vise Worth buy Also if u planning for solo bagpack than u must buy this book It can save u lots of money