Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island

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One of the best guide books for Chile
lonely planet Chile & Easter Island
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Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island
Charlotte Beech , Jolyon Attwooll , and Thomas Kohnstamm
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ASIN: 1740599977

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Climb the rocky spires of Torres del Paine, salsa all night in sizzling Santiago, explore the world's driest desert or follow Che's tracks through the Lakes District. Whether you're looking to brave the wilderness or wind through the wine country, our best-selling, opinion-packed Chile guide will take you to the end of the world...and back. HEAD SOUTH - expanded coverage of adventure paradise Patagonia, with side trips to Argentina RAISE A GLASS - discover Chilean wine with our intoxicating primer by a Colchagua Valley vintner PLAY HARD - sand-board desert dunes, paddle through ice-carved fjords or ski still-smoking volcanoes with our dedicated Outdoors chapter REST EASY - accommodations for every budget, from rustic mountain refugios and homey hospedajes to luxurious retreats and high-rise hotels LIVE IT UP - enjoy gourmet meals and top-notch culture in Santiago, uncover ValparaÃso's bohemian charms or sunbathe on Arica's plentiful beaches

HEAD SOUTH - expanded coverage of adventura paradise Patagonia with a side trip to Argentina

RAISE A GLASS - Discover Chilean wine with our intoxicating primer by a Colchagua Valley vintner

PLAY HARD - sand board desert dunes, paddle through ice-carved fjords or ski still-smoking volcanoes with our dedicated Outdoors chapter

REST EASY- accomodation for every budget, from rustic mountain refugios and homey hospedajesto luxurious retreats and high-rise hotels

LIVE IT UP- enjoy gourmet meals and top-notch culture in Santiago, uncover Valparaiso's bohemian charms or sunbath on Arica's plentiful beaches.

Customer Reviews:

not so helpful after all.......2007-04-21

I have used LP guides all over the world, mostly for the maps and hostel listings...so when I went to Chile, I happily bought the Chile guide. I threw it out two weeks later. The maps were incorrect again and again, information was just plain wrong, the listings unhelpful. We ended up walking all over one town looking for a hostel that had been misplaced on a map, we missed buses, and were shocked at how horrible "the best hostel in [a certain town]" was. Fine adventure and all, but after I trashed the LP, we used my friends' Rough Guide instead (which thankfully had correct info) and we saved our time and enjoyed ourselves for the rest of our trip.

found it useful.......2007-03-11

We went on a Princess cruise, so only used the guite for Santiago, Chile, Valparaiso, Porte Montte, Punta Arenas, Ushuaia, Falklands, montevideo, and BA. Wew found it useful. Did not really use the hotel or restuarant guides.

One of the best guide books for Chile.......2007-03-06

I travel in Chile often and extensively and can vouch for the quality of this guide book, especially this new edition. There's a lot of good guide books out there and every one has a different perspective, but I find LP's to include the broadest spectrum of information, for people on all different budgets with all different types of travel tastes, styles, and expectations. This edition just came out so you can trust that the info is up to date, and I agree with a lot of their recommendations of special hotels, restaurants, and off the trail places to check out. The southern chapters are excellent, in particular.

If you are heading to Chile, I urge you to pick up a copy of the poetry of their national hero, the great Nobel Laureate pacifist Pablo Neruda, subject of Il Postino / Postman and so much more. The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems has been called by many as the best introductions and best books of his even if you already love and know him. Check it out. You will experience Chile differently after reading his words of passions. You will experience life differently. For more info, check out redpoppy dot net, a non-profit dedicated to furthering his commitment to humanitarianism and spreading his poetry around the globe.

Making a difference in this world, one poem at a time.

Paz y amor

lonely planet Chile & Easter Island.......2007-01-16

I'm planning a trip to Chile and this book has been so completely helpful. All lonely planet books I've bought in the past have been excellent; always full of honest information for budget/backpacker travelers. They list everything you can imagine from hostels in every area to dinning to ferry schedules and bus routes/rates. I wouldn't trust any other travel book when traveling abroad.

FACTUAL ERROR.......2006-07-07

As the author of "The Complete Guide to Easter Island" (Easter Island Foundation, 2004), I read with much interest the chapter on Easter Island in the 2006 edition of "Chile & Easter Island" by Charlotte Beech, et al. There is one important factual error that readers show know about: The account of the Peruvian slave raids on Easter Island as it appears on page 428 makes reference to an out-dated and erroneous account of Easter Islanders being forced to work the guano deposits on Peru's Chincha Islands. Due to confused personal accounts reported incorrectly by early ethnologists and historians, this story appeared in some of the first Easter Island literature and has been repeated ad nauseam by more contemporary writers who haven't done their homework -- so it's no surprise that it might end up being source material for the authors of "Chile & Easter Island" who may have had little or no way of knowing the inaccuracies involved. But, as Easter Island researcher and author Grant McCall discovered after doing extensive historical and genealogical research on the islanders (including a visit to the Chincha Islands), there is no evidence to support allegations that Easter Islanders were taken to the Chincha Islands. There is evidence that Easter Islanders were taken to coastal plantations in Peru where they were sold as indentured servants, however. One key fact that has been uncovered in investigating this misinformation is that the guano mines were not actually operating at the time of the 1862 slave raids (they were temporarily closed due to Spanish raids), so it's clear that Easter Islanders couldn't even have been on the Chincha Islands. This may all seem like a small matter but, when it comes to Easter Island (where there has been no shortage of nonsense written and far fewer mysteries than most people would like to believe), the more accurate we can get, the better!

Lonely Planet Trekking in the Patagonian Andes

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Lonely Planet Trekking in the Patagonian Andes
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amazing hikes, erroneous details
An Unparallelled Resource
Well-done work

Lonely Planet Trekking in the Patagonian Andes
Clem Lindenmayer , and Nick Tapp
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Lonely Planet Trekking in the Patagonian Andes.......2007-01-16

For the last year I've been planning a trip to Chile and Patagonia. This book has helped me plan and organize and decide which areas I want to see. This book has been full of helpful information about all the different treks in this region, the difficulty rating, miles, average days specific trails will take, and great maps. Not only does the book give great info about specific treks, it also gives really great information for newer backpackers, such as a checklist of what you should bring on the trek, what kind of food to bring, how to use a compass, first aid info, etc. (Though you should know these things before you trek around Patagonia.) I give this book 5 stars.

Lonely Planet Rocks.......2007-01-09

I am an avid traveler, hiker and explorer and have found the Lonely Planet guides to be the absolute BEST if your intention is to explore the "ins and outs" of a country without the services of an in-country guide or tour service. They are a valuable tool for the experienced treeker/hiker/tramper and also a great resource for the urban adventurer. Lonely planet pulls their data from a variety of folks- including locals, recent transplants and adventurers- who provide extremely relevant input for the books. I always find their rating of lodging and food accurate~~ low budget is truly low budget and their recommended picks are always clean, comfortable and well situated. I also find their description and maps of hiking/trekking/tramping routes very accurate, although I would still recommend using up-to-date topo maps, GPS or hiring a local certified guide if you are exploring off-piste, mountainous or rugged regions anywhere. There is no replacement for experience and sound judgment in the backcountry. This particular guide book is wonderfully laid out and their advice is keen. Unless you have a solid 3 months of time to adventure in more than one of the regions it is best to pick an area (like the Lakes District) and focus your time in one place. Obviously the Torres Del Paine or Fitz Roy regions see a lot of traffic but the other areas are absolutely fabulous, as well. While other guide books may cater to the "guided tour crowd", I find Lonely Planet caters more to the independent intrepid traveler. Two Thumbs Up. Enjoy your exploring....

amazing hikes, erroneous details.......2004-07-28

This book is a perfect introduction to the wealth of hiking possibilities in patagonia - many of them are still significantly under-used and of equal calibre to the more famous routes. The general information sections are quite good, and give a good feel for what conditions are like both trekking and travelling in general; a good purchase for planning your trip. Where the book falls down is on the actual trekking notes, which are consistently inaccurate, obscenely outdated and sometimes quite misleading (see other reviews). On this front, Cerro Electrico is not safe - however Cerro Electrico Oeste is safely climbable without mountaineering equipment (although crampons are a nice idea) and gives mind-blowing views of the rear of Fitzroy - I think this might be what the author actually had in mind.

The best use of this book is as an introduction/inspiration, then get hold of decent military maps (plentiful in santiago and buenos aires) and local advice (abundant) and go from there. Given that many of the treks require some degree of independence and judgement (especially in snow-bound regions), pretty much any information should be taken with a grain of salt and certainly should be double-checked independantly or at worst against common sense. It is a pity no better alternative exists, but the general information is good and if prepared, leave the fun of route-finding up to yourself.

An Unparallelled Resource.......2004-01-14

Like all Lonely Planet guides, Trekking in Patagonia is very much geared to independent trekkers. Considering how huge Patagonia is, the book covers it pretty thoroughly with a wide range of suggestions, from easy short walks right up to a few week-long ones. The text is strong on practical information like local transportation and accommodation and supplies wide coverage to flora and fauna, which is a real bonus.
Patagonia's five regions are arranged in chapters that go from north to south which the way most foreigners seem to travel. The information is set out very logically, with tables of routes and a small info box at the start of each walk so you know what to expect. I liked the book's simple but correct contoured maps that are given for every trek. Some walkers I met wanted the book to have more day walks but that's a matter of personal preference. I got alot out of my 5 weeks in Patagonia, thanks greatly to this book. Unless you're a complete jerker, you're not going to get lost with this! A warning though, sometimes it's hard slogging that may not suit pampered English hill-walkers.
This book is a veritable encyclopaedia that I found a real companion on the trails constantly taking it out for quick reference. It is indeed an unparallelled resource for trekking in Patagonia, so I'm awarding it 5 stars!

Well-done work.......2003-12-27

I am using the latest (thid ed.) on my second trip to South America. It an indispensable resource with very accurate text and maps which are quite accurate to use even if you you don't have a topo (yeah I know, but maps are not always easy to buy here). The routes carefuly prepared...this new edition has a whole lot of new trails. I'm also finding it up to date. One thing is maybe that the authors could have given better coverage to some areas such as the Pumalin. But this is more than enough material to spend a couple of summers down here anyhow, even if you just go for it! I definitely feel anyone that wants to trek in this region will be sorry if you don't have this book. Enjoy! Feel free to contact me privately for any info.
Ryan

Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island (Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island)

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Disappointing to an LP fan
A rather weak LP guide
Concise, filled with great information, excellently written.
Best of the Chile guides
a great guide

Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island (Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island)
Carolyn Hubbard , Brigitte Barta , and Jeff Davis
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From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you're going there chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves of first-time world travelers, while still listing off-the-beaten-path finds sure to thrill even the most jaded globetrotters. Lonely Planet has been perfecting its guidebooks for nearly 30 years, and as a result has experience and know-how similar to an older sibling's "been there" advice. The original backpacker's bible, the LP series has recently widened its reach. While still giving insights for the low-budget traveler, the books now list a wide range of accommodations and itineraries for those with less time than money.

The wonders of Chile's long stretch of landscape reach from tropical splendors in the north to icy behemoths in the south--with 4,000 kilometers of volcanoes, fjords, and lakes in between. Whether you seek outdoor or urban adventures, this guide has what you need to eat, sleep, speak, and experience the finest Chile has to offer. Also included are details for travel to the Falkland Islands and Antarctica. --Kathryn True

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From pristine Patagonian glaciers to the arid Atacama Desert, Chile offers breathtaking landscapes of every flavor. Whether you're looking to scale an Andean peak, relax on a serene Pacific beach, or dance the night away in a Santiago nightclub, this guide delivers all the expert insights you'll need.

• best places to stay, from family-run hospedajes to hot-springs resorts • insider tips for wine-tasting in Chile's award-winning vineyards, and restaurant options for every palate • Andean adventure - prepare for the best trekking, skiing and rafting, and find prime sites for viewing wildlife • chat with ease, using our practical Spanish language guide • find yourself - with 64 detailed maps

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing to an LP fan.......2005-11-28

While staying in Argentina, my husband and I decided we'd like to travel to Chile for a short period of time, and thought we were lucky to find a copy of this book in a bookstore in Buenos Aires. In retrospect, I think we should have spent the money on a fancy restaurant (Yes, B.A. is that cheap.).

Even in helping us decide which city to travel to, this book contained little information, lacking the great in depth and funny stories that characterized the other LP books we've used. (Perhaps other cities in Chile had better info, but we were comparing Santiago, the capital, Valparaíso, and Viña del Mar.)

We ended up going to Viña del Mar, and in spite of the city being a huge tourist destination, there was little information about lodging; ditto for restaurants or entertainment. Those 3 things being our main use of the LP books (which we could not have lived without in Argentina and Brazil), I wish we had not wasted our money.

A rather weak LP guide.......2005-09-27

Some Lonely Planet guides become a traveler's "bible". Unfortunately not this one. I lived a whole year in Chile and during this time traveled extensively from north to south. The book is alright if you are just looking for a short overview and some basic info. However, the book falls sadly short of providing really detailed info on accomodation (especially budget and mid-range) or restaurants and in general too often only scratches the surface, leaves out less known but equally interesting places. In a nutshell - the LP is good for some practical info but shouldn't be the traveler's only source of information. I would recommend to buy either the "Chile Experience Travel Guide" (English) or the annually updated, excellent "Turistel" guides (Spanish), both by Turiscom. You can get them in any bookstore in Santiago or other Chilean cities. Chile is a wonderful country to explore and definitely deserves a better guide book.

Concise, filled with great information, excellently written........2002-12-24

This is for certain one of the best Lonely Planet guides I came across (and I do have a very large collection). Perhaps aided by the fact that Chile is a relatively small country, yet stretching from the tropical to the antarctic areas, and by the relative homogeneity of the country in terms of society and culture, the author and editors have done an excellent job in collecting and putting together all the best information a traveller to Chile would need. I know Chile very well, and can witness that this information is up-to-date, correct, unbiased, and altogether an indispensable tool for any traveller, providing all necessary data for the more well-off and for 'backpackers' alike. The information is concise and clear. Everything is excellently written, thus ensuring real pleasure too. The sections on politics, history and society are excellent too. Altogether, it is a great companion while travelling in Chile or dreaming of Chile.

Best of the Chile guides.......2002-03-14

When planning my trip to Chile, I bought about every Chile guide I could find, and I have about 8 or 10 of them. While none of them had "everything" this one was definately the best of them. The city maps were useful as they are in all Lonely Planet books anad its practical information helped decide where to go and how to get around. I think it gave me the most useful information of all the other guidebooks. I planned my entire trip to Chile and Easter Island from guidebooks and phone calls without any tour agency. I think I did find a couple things out of date as others did, but that is, as said another reviewer, common to all guidebooks as they are researched over a period of time, then edited & compiled, then finally released. I recommend getting this book if you plan to visit Chile and also another book for another point of view and other details. The book is not perfect, but it is probably the best out there on the subject.

a great guide.......2001-06-13

While shopping for a guidebook for my first visit to Chile, this book (the previous edition of it) looked like the most comprehensive guidebook available. It was extremely helpful for both choosing what places to visit and how to visit them. As some other reviewers noted, there were some weaknesses and omissions and some information was out of date, but the current edition of the book is likely to be more up-to-date. Anyway, if you need your whole trip laid out for you, you are probably better off joining a tour group. I found the Lonely Planet Trekking in the Patagonian Andes was a good complement to this book. I certainly wish all the information had been available in a single book, but given the amount of detail in both the Chile and Patagonian Andes books, I don't begrudge Lonely Planet too much.

Lonely Planet Chile Y La Isla De Pascua (Spanish Guides)

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Lonely Planet Chile Y La Isla De Pascua (Spanish Guides)
Charlotte Beech , Jolyon Attwooll , Jean-Bernard Carillet , and Thomas Kohnstamm
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Full Circle: A South American Journey (Lonely Planet Journeys)

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wanderlust reactivated
A very entertaining and well wriiten book.
It was a difficult read...
A book of the past, present and future

Full Circle: A South American Journey (Lonely Planet Journeys)
Luis Sepulveda
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Full Circle invites us to accompany Chilean writer Luis Sepulvéda on a "journey without a fixed itinerary". Whatever his subject - brutalities suffered under Pinochet's dictatorship, sleepy tropical towns visited in exile, or the landscapes of legendary Patagonia - Sepulvéda is an unflinchingly honest yet lyrical toryteller. extravagant characters and extraordinary situations are memorably evoked: gauchos organising a tournament of lies, a scheming heiress on the lookout for a husband, a pilot with a corpse on board his plane... Part autobiography, part travel memoir, Full Circle brings us the distinctive voice of one of South America's most compelling writers

Customer Reviews:

wanderlust reactivated.......2002-05-09

a very honest and coolly written book. While the narrative appears disjointed at first, one realizes that if the author were to write all the details in chrono sequence, given that he has been travelling for years, it would have been several fat volumes. This is not srictly a travelogue in the sense of day 1 we did tis, day 2 that happened.. rather, its a collection of incidents and events that took place in the couirse of the author's travels, that illuminate life in the various places he has been.
I feel like hitting the road again, with no fixed destination in mind, no final goal, timeless...

A very entertaining and well wriiten book........1999-03-16

Full Circle is a book that cannot be read only once. The stories become like old freinds and are joys to visit with again and again.

It was a difficult read..........1999-01-10

This book was disjointed. It was really hard to follow what was going on and where the author was going and why. The book seemed to be a compilation of miscellaneous stories about his life. Some of the stories made sense, while others were out of place and unintelligible. This made for a difficult read.

A book of the past, present and future.......1998-07-08

Full circle details the past and the ceratin present of sepulveda's life, his torture and exile from his country because of his belief and his travels through South America as he cannot return. The story begins and ends with his aim to try and get to the village of his grandfather's birth in Spain and to see if he has any surviving relatives. A book that touched me in a way no other book has ever done and none probably will, and belive me, for once that is no understatement.

Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island: A Lonely Planet Travel Atlas

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Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island (Atlas)
Lonely Planet Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay

Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island: A Lonely Planet Travel Atlas
Wayne Bernhardson
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With full-color maps throughout. Travel information and roadtesting provided by guidebook author Wayne Bernhardson.

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Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island (Atlas).......2000-04-30

Very good maps and some good tips.

Lonely Planet Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.......2000-04-30

Very good guide, with plenty of helpful and detailed information!

Lonely Planet Chile (Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island)

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Carolyn Hubbard , Brigitte Barta , and Jeff Davis
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Chile & Easter Island: A travel survival kit (Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island)

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Chile & Easter Island: A travel survival kit (Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island)
Alan Samagalski
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Lonely Planet Santiago De Chile (Lonely Planet Santiago de Chile)

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An incredibly helpful guide
not good value for the money
A great guide to a great city, yet to be discovered...
A great guide to a great city, yet to be discovered...

Lonely Planet Santiago De Chile (Lonely Planet Santiago de Chile)
Wayne Bernhardson
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ASIN: 0864424337

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Attention all surfers and skiers, city slickers and oenophiles: Santiago is in one of Chile's most diverse regions. With this detailed guide, you can explore this cosmopolitan capital, then head for a swoosh down the Andes, a frolic in the Pacific, or even south for a rodeo and a dip in some hot springs! <ul>

lodging options from camping and hostels to high-rise hotels </li>

excursions from Valpo and Viña to Mendoza, Argentina </li>

tips on touring the best wineries </li>

activities including hiking, cycling, rafting the Rio Maipo and more </li>

food listings including international cuisine and local favorites </li>

16 detailed maps, 10 in full color </li></ul>

Customer Reviews:

An incredibly helpful guide.......2002-09-20

I spent 4 months studying abroad in Santiago and this book was indispensible! It had all kinds of information I needed about places to see in the city, restaurants to try and places to shop. It also has a few pages of day trips from the city (Vina del Mar, Valparaiso, and Rancagua) and maps of those places which were really helpful. If you plan to spend a good amount of time in Santiago, this is the book to get. However, if Santiago is just one small stop on your trip throughout Chile, stick with the Lonely Planet Chile guide (also very helpful). The city guide doesn't have too much more to offer, but it is much smaller and easy to take with you anywhere. If you're spending a long amount of time in Santiago, get this book.

not good value for the money.......2002-01-01

My friend and I spent 2 months in Chile -- 1 in santiago, 1 traveling in the south. We had both the LP Chile and LP Santiago, and the latter provides very little beyond what is found in the former. You get a few more maps, but really I expected a lot more for my money. The Santiago book generally struck me as personality free (in contrast to other LP guides, e.g. LP Peru) and it's too bad there's not a Time Out Santiago. The Time Out guides are better in almost every way-- more detailed info, more interesting tidbits, better maps and a much hipper sensibility.

A great guide to a great city, yet to be discovered..........2000-12-29

Having lived in many Latin American cities, such as Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, and also Santiago, I never quite understood why Santiago never ranked along its neighbour major cities in terms of tourism. Indeed, Santiago is a wonderful city all to be discovered. Her nightlife is at least up to the standard of Buenos Aires - and much cheaper ! At least as happening as Rio de Janeiro - and much safer ! The food is fabulous, the people are wonderful, the women are gorgeous. The only black spot on Santiago may be its high level of pollution. But apart from that, I love it ! Finally, here is a guide that contains it all. Advice for the budget traveller as well as more researched data on fine restaurants. Plenty of tips and data. By all means, take this to Santiago with you.

A great guide to a great city, yet to be discovered..........2000-12-29

Chile and Easter Island (Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island)

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Alan Samagalski
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