Peru

If you are traveling to PERU yu will find this an excellant book to review first. The printing and quality of paper is excellant and the info inside the book was used repeatily on our recent trip to Peru.We purchased other books on Peru and this one was the best if you are looking for information about the country and places to visit. You may find better books or internet info if youare just looking for places to stay and places to eat.

As always, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide to Peru, was very thorough, an invaluable tool to understand the Inka culture. I never leave home without one, be it for Paris or Italy, or any place else. Wonderfully illustrated, it's a joy to consult wherever you are, and the envy of your fellow travelers with their puny, tiny guides.

Book is fantastic! Great pictures and information on travel to Peru. Shared it with a friend from Peru and he was amazed by the book.

EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDES are the best guides you could find. I've bought every one they have published to the places I have visited, and always know where I want to go and what are the most important places to visit, with the pictures and 3D images of the buildings and maps I don't get surprises as to visit a place not worth while. You optimize your travel time. I have about twenty of their guides, just hope they increase the places they review in the near future.

It's tough to pick the "best" guidebook for a particular destination, and the proliferation of free travel information on the web makes choosing "the one" even tougher. My wife and I always start with a copy of an EyeWitness guide for the destination: there are pictures on every page, and we find the images help us plan our trip: the guides are particularly good for architecture and art. The practical guides in the back provide a useful overview of currency, hotels and restaurants. This guide to Peru is a particularly good example of the DK offerings: the images, paper, text, all are up to the high standards of other guides in the series. We returned from our trip to Peru two days after the Eyewitness guide arrived in the mail, so that we used two other guides during our trip. Reading EyeWitness at home reinforced our belief that the Eyewitness series is the best starting point for us. Peru is a very complicated country, and Eyewitness does a superb job of describing that complexity in words and in pictures. Its treatment of Lima was particularly good -- we were lost in the details of the city as they appeared in the two other books we used on the trip, but Lima came to life clearly in the Eyewitness guide. (We thought that Peru Insight Guide (Insight Guides) was a very good guide for the reasons indicated in my review of that guide.) Of course, you'll need more specific and detailed guides to many of the attractions: the Inca Trail if you choose to hike it, or Machu Picchu if you visit. But for a comprehensive and visually appealing overview, Eyewitness can't be beat. Having written that, there is really only one page that usually matters in deciding whether to buy a guide book: the newer the guide the better. This book appeared in a fully revised American edition in May, 2008. That makes this guide very hard to beat for two or three years in our experience. Note: DK maintains an excellent website at TravelDK , with updates on many of its guidebooks. Robert C. Ross 2008