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India is Asia at its most colourful. The best sights, Bollywood stars and temple cars. Thalis, tigers and tea. Where to stay. Sacred rivers and languid lakes. Yoga in Goa and hiking in the Himalaya. How to get around. Where cows have right of way and elep
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Footprint gets you around.......2007-01-12
My wife and I checked almost every India travel guide book that is sold in the USA. We took three travel guides with us to India but the footpring was the only one to return.
Its descriptions aids the reader in visting a site. It guides you as a (semi) independent travel in exploring the sites and how to navigate through them. Other travel guides have similar descriptions of the sites, but they do not tell the travelar where to go. This works fine if you have a guide (but then why bother with a travel guide book), but is not helpful as an independent travelar.
It also had great pre-prep suggestions on who to contact for booking your independent trip.
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A travel guide bringing the best that this region has to offer from the bleached white sand beaches of Goa to the paddy fields of Kerala. Covers where to stay, what to eat, what to see and how to get there.
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Footprint Nepal Handbook
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Birthplace of the Buddha, home of the Gurkhas, roof of the world, land of legend and beauty - within its narrow confines Nepal contains an utterly spectacular variety of culture and landscapes. This guide includes coverage of Kathmandu, trekking in the Himalayas, how to get to Tibet and practical information on Lhasa plus colour maps covering the whole country.
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A travel guide packed with detailed cultural and historical information to help travellers get under the skin of this fascinating part of India.
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Excellent guide book.......2007-02-09
The Footprint series are great for getting background and cultural information about the destinations. It provides detailed information about the hot places to be, where to avoid and a true insiders guide to each city. This is a lot more detailed and seemingly more accurate than the Lonely Planet guides.
The one thing it lacks is details of hotels and restaurants. It simply lists them without reviews or justified ratings. My suggestion: travel with two books. Get the Lonley Planet for hotels and restaurants. Get the Footprint series for real life details of your destination.
One example: Footprint gives information like [paraphrasing] 'the registered guides are only allowed on the left side of the entrance of the fort; the local, but frequently better guides, stay on the right'. Details like that make you feel confident in your travels.
where is Gujarat?.......2007-02-09
I bought the book, two day delivery, because I am going to Gujarat in ten days. I went through the book, looked through the index, etc., but aside from a piece on the map, could not find material on Gugarat. My invoice and your title clearly says Footprint Rajasthan (Footprint Rajasthan and Gujarat Handbook) by Matt Barrett. The title on the book is Footprint Rajasthan by Matt Barrett.
Needless to say, I'm very disappointed. I was going to give it a 3 because the quality of the book is good, but because I was looking for Gujarat and felt this was all very misleading, I'm giving it a one, since there's no zero.
good choice.......2006-11-03
The guidebook is useful and detailed. It does not contain a lot of practical information, but the cultural background is excellent.
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Searching since boyhood for the way to God, Sundar Singh found truth in Jesus Christ. At sixteen, the former Kikh became a Christian sadhu, or holy man, and at great risk devoted his life to Christ. With bare feet and few possessions, Sundar crossed the precarious Himalayas between India and Tibet many times, sharing the gospel with Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs--even theives.
As he traveled, Sundar constantly read the Bible, prayed, and meditated, confident that God was always with him, even in the face of death. Preaching in Asia, Europe, and as far away as America, this Indian saint impacted thousands with his quiet yet bold words and actions.
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Holy Man of God.......2007-01-23
Sundar's mother wanted him to be a holy man, or sadhu, and, being a Singh, he was expected to follow in the Sikh faith of their family. They thought the Sikh scriptures were better than the Hindu scriptures; also the Sikhs believed in only one God. The Sikhs thought themselves above the rest of the people of India.
Since the public school was five miles away, his parents sent him to the Christian mission school nearby. Sundar was a good learner, and pleased the teachers. Before his mother died, he prayed that she would live, but after her death, he hated the Christians and their God, making life at the mission school miserable. Since he still had to go to school, he told his father he would walk to the public school, but after he contracted malaria, he was not strong enough to make the walk. His father insisted that he attend the Christian mission school again. After some time, he was still sick and depressed from the malaria, and he decided he must know if God was real. He prayed and asked the Lord to show Himself to Sundar that night, or he would kill himself under the morning train. He says that Jesus appeared and spoke to him. That night his life changed. He repented and believed on Christ.
When Sundar told his family about his new faith in Jesus, they tried to change his mind, finally poisoning him, when he left to live with Christian friends. To their amazement, he survived the poisoning.
He had a burning desire to tell everyone about the Lord. It occurred to him that people with listen more readily if became a Sadhu; not a Sikh Sadhu, but a Christian holy man. He traveled all over, preaching as he went. Many people drove him away, but some listened.
Sundar had a particular burden for the people of Tibet. He would walk over the Himalayan ranges to preach to them, although bringing in a foreign "religion" was illegal. One of the first times he was preaching, he was caught by the grand lama and sentenced to die. Since their religious convictions forbid them to actually kill someone, they have divised many methods of slowly "allowing" people to die. Sundar was thrown into a dry well to die, a well that he discovered had been used many times for the same purpose. Rotting human remains and bones surrounded him with an awful stench. After three days, he was miraculously rescued.
He went on to many places, being persecuted and tortured, but continuing to preach. He began to be well known, and other countries asked for him to come to speak to them. Sundar preached in many countries, but he always came back to the places his heart yearned over. In time his father came to know the Lord.
Sundar never returned from his last trip to Tibet. No one knows or admits to knowing what happened to him. We do know that he was faithful to preach God's Word; faithful unto death, and he will receive a crown of life.
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The Black Cow's Footprint: Time, Space and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India
Richard K. Wolf
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Ideal for the backpackers and for adventurous travelers, this guide offers 1,001 ways to get off the beaten track to the very heart of what India has to offer by providing incomparable background information on the history, culture, wildlife, music, dance, religion, language, and people of this sprawling country. Detailed itineraries and recommendations on where to go are presented, an essential tool when planning a trip to a country as vast and diverse as India. Footprint India provides reliable recommendations of where to stay, from maharajas' palaces to rustic beaches, along with profiles of eateries and attractions for every taste and budget. Regions covered include North India (Delhi, the Himalayas, Agra, Taj Majal, Rajasthan), East India (Calcutta (Kolkata), Sikkim, Assam, Orissa), South Andia (Madras (Chennai), Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and West India (Bombay (Mumbai), Goa, Gujarat).
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To India and back!.......2007-03-26
I spent several weeks in 2004 traveling through India using only this guide. The hotel listings were very helpful and even a relative that accompanied me on my travels (who is a cosmopolitan native) was impressed at the hotels we found for very reasonable rates and convenient locations. I always asked to view the room before checking in because my standards vary from their standards, but this book gave me a great headstart on which hotels to visit. If I didn't agree with their recommendation, I always found a similar hotel. It is a bit thin on the history and culture, for which I suggest a Fodor's.
better to buy another guidebook.......2005-04-17
i am in india right now and am so thankful that i have also the rough guide and do wish i had a lonely planet, not footprint. this book is lacking: not enough hotel listings with prices, restaurants with prices, cost of transportation, misses details of "before you go"/"things a traveller must know", nor does it give enough information about the locations it covers - better to buy lonely planet and the rough guide.
Truly Top-Notch.......2005-01-31
I spent two months backpacking through India in the summer of 2003, and the Footprint guide was tremendous. I also brought the Rough Guide to India, but Footprint was much more useful (though both blew away Lonely Planet!).
There is great coverage of smaller towns in all regions of the country, something that is invaluable if you're spending an extended period of time in the country. Almost every time I'd be overnighting in some obscure town as part of a bus journey, I'd at least find a paragraph or two, which saved the day more than once.
The maps are great. The most readable I've seen in any guidebook. The detailed maps of the whole country in the back were extremely useful.
The background section was also the most in-depth I've seen among India guidebooks. Very good.
All in all, this is definitely the best guidebook to use for India. One of the biggest benefits of it though, is that it isn't very popular. If Lonely Planet says a place is cheap, you can guarantee they've quadrupled their price since then. Footprint India really helps you stay off the beaten tourist path... I rarely had encounters with other travellers... almost all of my time was spent with locals, and the Footprint guide is definitely geared towards that. Most of the hotels reviewed aren't backpacker-focused (though those are there), but are mostly used by locals travelling for various reasons.
Highly recommended!
Forget Lonely Planet - this is the one necessary guide .......2005-01-19
Great introduction to the regions and their attractions? Check. Detailed descriptions of even the smallest places of interest? Check. Quick but practical hotel and restaurant ratings? Check. In-depth information on history, politics, geology and landscape, vegetation, including crops, wildlife, religion, culture, festivals, economy? Check! Extensive information on getting around, routes from A to B (and many alternatives), trekking, air and train travel, cycling etc? Check.
This guide really has everything you need, practical and educational - and in a very practical little package to boot (hard cover, small size, paper-thin pages to avoid too much bulk). The authors' biographies are revealing: one of them is a bona fide expert, a professor of South Asian Geography at the School of Oriental and African Studies. It's that kind of company you need to get a grip on a country like India. And you usually don't get it - most guidebooks are written by people who are simply more experienced in travel than your average joe, but have no in-depth knowledge of the country.
What it lacks, compared to Lonely Planet/Rough Guides is a chummy, get-a-load-of-this tone. Unadorned information me seem dry to some, but to others it is a relief compared to guides whose authors assume you share their prejudices. For instance, hotel listings are terse. A typical entry reads: "Category E, 130 rooms, some A/C (better rm on upper floor),restaurant (Indian veg.) rec; reasonably clean but gets crowded and noisy"
It's worth looking through other guidebooks if you want restaurant and hotel listings fleshed out for you. But if you only carry one guidebook to India, let it be this one.
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Pakistan Handbook (Footprint Pakistan Handbook)
Dave Winter
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Highly Useful.......2004-07-09
I really enjoyed this book and found it to be indespensible during two trips to Pakistan in the Summers of 03 and 04. A little skimpy on photos and the prices were outdated (it has not been updated since 1998 I wish they would too). other than that it was/is the best on the market, far more engaging and extensive than Lonely Planet. I see Footprint is expected to release a Guide to the Northern Areas. Although I welcome this I think far too many tourists neglect the four provinces down country. This is really where the guide book shines for it reveals so much about the majority of the country that other books neglect or skim over.
Excellent and very thorough guide.......2002-05-13
While in pursuit if my passion of travel, I have had the chance to use several types of guides, but never have I enjoyed reading any guide as this one. Very detailed, yet simply arranged, and excellent recommendations. Very accurate trekking information is also included in it, along with the typical "touristy" material. Maps could use a little more detail, as I saw it. Prices and other recommendations were excellent! Awesome job!
If anyone is going to Pakistan, I would highly suggest getting this book. There are so many things that I have never known even though I was there for several months.
Look no further for the best guidebook !.......1999-09-23
Pakistan is a fascinating and unfairly under-rated country. It certainly is one of the poorest in the world but its people are the most welcoming you will ever meet and the scenery is enthralling. I promised myself I'll keep returning to Pakistan every year since my first discovery trip (1998). Look no further for the best guidebook to Pakistan. This new edition is VERY detailed and informative and has even succeeded in improving on the already brilliant previous edition. In my opinion, Lonely Planet's updated 1998 edition is not bad either but does not compare. Have a wonderful journey ! And please, if you go to Lahore, don't miss the beautiful Wazir Khan mosque !
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Footprint Sri Lanka Handbook (Sri Lanka Handbook, 3rd ed)
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Roma Bradnock
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This 3rd edition of Footprint's Sri Lanka Handbook in the new paperback format will enable any visitor to explore the glorious beaches and the island's rural interior with its fascinating religious and historical associations. It features highlights of Sri Lanka both on and off the beaten track illustrated with colour photography, the guide is written by experienced travellers who also write the highly acclaimed Footprint India Handbook. It provides a fascinating insight into Sri Lanka's history, culture and religions and full coverage of best beaches and all beach activities, how to plan a route around the island plus colour maps to help you plan your journey and keep you orientated while you are travelling, and literally dozens of local town and site maps.
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Useful travel companion.......2000-08-01
We have travelled through Sri Lanka this spring. The guidebook proved to be very accurate and useful in organizing our trip and in assisting us for the different visits. Its practical tips are very true and the historical background is concentrated, without flooding you with too much information. I can highly recommend the guidebook.
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- The most comprehensive and updated of all Tibet guidebooks
- An indispensable guidebook with great scope for improvement
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ASIN: 0844249017 |
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Practical information on how to travel Tibet. Colour road maps for the entire region. Where to stay, eat and retreat. Nomadic grasslands, sandstone gorges, sacred mountains and arid plateaux.
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The most comprehensive and updated of all Tibet guidebooks.......2005-02-07
This book provides a more profound insight into Tibet for those interested in Tibetan culture, trekking and adventure travel, than the others that are on the market. It is the most comprehensive guide- uniquely including the vast eastern regions of Kham, Amdo and Gyarong, as well as Ngari and Utsang. The book avoids the traditional steriotypes of Tibet and includes much information directly translated from original Tibetan sources as well as data derived from more than 50 fieldwork expeditions and trips in Tibet. The author, Dr Gyurme Dorje, is a Tibetologist, who has been involved in Tibetan studies for over 30 years, and has authored several books on diverse aspects of Tibetan culture. His handbook has the advantage of being continuously updated.
An indispensable guidebook with great scope for improvement.......1999-11-25
Tibet Handbook with Bhutan, by Gyurme Dorje (Footprint Handbooks, Bath, England, 2nd edition 1999, 952pp plus maps).
The greatest strength of this book is that it is the only guidebook to give a substantial account of all parts of the Tibetan plateau, both inside and outside the so-called Tibetan Autonomous Region. For that reason it is, despite its conspicuous faults, indispensable for the traveller to Tibet whose itinerary extends beyond the familiar lands of central Tibet. The book is not to be confused with "Tibet Handbook" by Victor Chan.
"Tibet Handbook with Bhutan" is a guide to all Tibetan regions governed by the People's Republic of China, with additional chapters on Bhutan and the Kathmandu valley of Nepal. It would have been useful to include the Tibetan borderlands in Nepal and north-west India Ä although it is no doubt expedient politically to imply that no part of Tibet lies outside the territory China governs.
At 650 grams, the new edition (paperback) is almost twice the weight of the first, hardback, edition - a curious development for a travel guidebook.
The book includes useful background information about Tibetan religion, iconography and history. The bulk of the book deals with the regions of the Tibetan plateau by devoting a section to each one of the 158 counties into which the People's Republic of China divides it. This approach turns out to be surprisingly intelligible.
There is extensive information about religious places, and buildings and their contents. There is much less information about other matters such as topography, agriculture, educational facilities, military establishments, and political structures. It is as though, in a way, those things belong to a different Tibet.
The book enjoys the benefit of the author's experience as a scholar and tour guide. It also suffers the limitations of that experience, and is often short on practical details for the independent traveller. It is written in a concise style that betrays no trace of personality.
The second edition has been expanded considerably, mainly with valuable information about counties where information in the first edition was inadequate. Unfortunately, the author has not taken the opportunity to check the much more extensive material carried over from the first edition. If he would make time to do that, he would find innumerable internal contradictions within the text and between the text and the often wildly inaccurate small county maps. Almost any numeral, particularly distances, should be treated with suspicion. The relationship between the county population figures and those in the 1996 edition show impossible fluctuations; they go unremarked, but indicate that at least one of the sets of figures is worthless, and perhaps both. The inherent confusion in the existence of both Tibetan and Chinese names for the same places demands a consistency of usage in a guidebook which this one does not quite manage to attain.
An indispensable book, with the scope to become much better.
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