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Argentina Travel Guides
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NAME AND DESCRIPTION OF TRAVEL BOOK

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PRICE

1.

Argentina Handbook.  Footprint edition.  528 pages.  Size 4¾”x8¼”.  Includes color photos and maps. 

A goldmine of the most up-to-date and knowledgeable travel facts.  Detailed coverage of Patagonia and the adventure travel scene.  Loaded with information on feasts and festivals, eco tourism, food, fashion, fads and folklore.
 
Covers:
   Buenos Aires, The Pampas, Central Sierras, Mendoza and the Wine Region, Iguazú Falls, Lake District, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego.

   Totally packed with up-to-date information including highlights of virtually every town and site.  Also includes money-saving tips, advice on staying healthy, and anecdotes on local history, culture, customs, and etiquette.  Indispensable!
 

Reader's Comment:

"I found this to be an excellent guidebook. Argentina is a massive country and this guide manages to be both useful and accurate about very large portions of it.  The author has clearly travelled to all these places herself and is very good on the kind of detail one can only garner from personal experience.  It is far more reliable than any other comparable guidebook.  A fine addition to the Footprint range - which we have used all over the world and found to be uniformly excellent. "
 

FOOT

$24.95
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$5.50
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2.

Argentina, Travel Guide.  Lonely Planet   Publications.   5th Edition

Danny Palmerlee,  et al.
Published August 2005 
524 pages.  16 pages color.  93 maps.

Tackle the Tango in a Buenos Aires "Milonga".  Bite into the world’s most heavenly beef.  Gallop with Gauchos across the Pampas. 
 

  Better and cheaper than ever, Argentina beckons!  Grab the top-selling, tried-and-true guide and prepare for a thrill ride across enchanting cities, lush jungles and windswept plains, over Patagonian glaciers...to the tip of the world.

•   FIND YOURSELF – navigate the country with 90+ detailed maps, more than any other guidebook to
      Argentina.
•   BECOME THE EXPERT – insight into the country’s culture and history, from tango etiquette and tips for
       beef-eaters to the story of Evita and the recent peso crash.
•   HOP THE BORDER – side trips to Uruguay and Chile, plus essentials for crossing into Paraguay, Brazil
      and Bolivia
•   SNACK, SIP & SLEEP – top dining spots and bargain bites, the scoop on local libations (from mate tea
      to Mendoza wine) and hundreds of top-notch lodging options
•   TALK THE TALK – handy Spanish language chapter and food glossary help you chat with the locals and
      order ice cream instead of liver

LONE

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3.

Argentina Rough Guide.  Size 5"x8".  896 pages.  Very comprehensive.

In the competitive world of Argentina travel guides this guide is one of the most authoritative, up-to-date and practical guides out. Rough Guide's direct competition is Lonely Planet, and between the two, well it's almost a toss up - both have strengths and irritations, but the nod goes to Rough Guide.

This guide has very good accommodations recommendations for all of Argentina. You can find everything from a 5 star hotel to well-run hostel. Note: for those going to Buenos Aires', hotel prices have skyrocketed over the past two years and most guides have not kept up with this immense price surge. I found hotels that were listed as $75 a night, now $225!  Thus, the hotel's webpage is the best place to make sure of the current price. But this Rough Guide provides very few hotel web pages for hotels "outside" of Buenos Aires. Lonely Planet does much better in this area.

Rough Guide's recommendations for restaurants are reliable. Of those restaurants that I tried, about 90% were good to very good. Yet, for some perplexing reason, Rough Guide fails to tell you what you should expect to pay for your meal. So one eatery may be $4 and another $40 - not good. Also, the description of the restaurant is very terse and leaves one wishing for a fuller description. This guide does not give you the time or days when the restaurant is open; so take care and call first, especially on weekends.

Excellent is the information that this guide provides on Argentina's history, politics, wild life, environment, music and recommended books. Rough Guide is the best out in this area. Also, Rough Guide has excellent maps. All of its city maps are excellent, and far easier to use than Lonely Planets. Kudos!

The cumbersome "price code" system for accommodations, i.e. 1 = up to $25, 2 = $25-40, 3 = $40-60, etc., should be changed. It is so much better to use what Lonely Planet, and most other guides use, the cost in dollars. Duh.

Rough Guide is a very reliable guide. However, there is a new release just out you should also consider: "Footprint Argentina - 2006" - it too is a great guide!  This "Rough Guide" is Strongly Recommended.  - Allan Gathercoal.

ROUG

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4.

Backpacking In Argentina and Chile.  Bradt Publications

BRAD

$24.95

5.

Trekking in the Patagonian Andes.  Lonely Planet Publications

LONE

$24.95

Argentina City Guides

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NAME AND DESCRIPTION OF TRAVEL BOOK

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PRICE

6.

Buenos Aires Travel Guide.  Lonely Planet Publications

LONE

$18.95

7.

Buenos Aires and the Best of Argentina, Alive Guide.  Hunter Publishing.  424 pages.  Size 5"x7".

HUNT

$18.95

8.

Buenos Aires Insight Guide.  APA Publications

APAP

$24.95

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