Product Description

The highly successful "Globetrotter Travel Series", which includes Travel Guides, Travel Maps, Road Atlases, Best of Pocket Guides and In Your Pocket Language Guides, presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide. The Packs are excellent value, including both a guidebook and a softcover version of the fold-out Globetrotter map of the region, in a printed plastic wallet. The handy pocket-size guide is packed with useful information, tips and recommendations, accompanied by colour photographs, charts and maps for the first-time traveller who wants to experience the major highlights that Peru has to offer. This travel book surpasses other guides in that it incorporates essential information in an easy-to-carry and easy-to-read format that is attractive and useful at the same time. It provides a visitor with an invaluable introduction to Peru by concisely highlighting the country's 'must see' areas in a practical and user-friendly format, thus encouraging the tourist to make the most of his/her available time. All the essential information you need to get around an unfamiliar country is compacted into useful and practical 'At-a-Glance' sections at the end of each chapter. The fold-out map of Peru is ideal for tourists and visitors. In addition to the main map of Peru, which highlights scenic routes, it features 1 site map and 6 town plans.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #644872 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Format: Folded Map
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Map

About the Author
Born in Dundee, Robin Gauldie was educated at Edinburgh University, where he studied history. He worked in a museum in Stirling and as a reporter on several local newspapers in Scotland before moving to London, where he now lives. He is the author of numerous travel guides, among others the Globetrotter guides to Egypt, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Goa and Bombay, Ireland and Scotland.

Customer Reviews

Map of Peru
This is an excellent full-sized road map of Peru. It has the mileage between towns and cities clearly marked and is a very comprehensive map. We travel extensively in Peru--much of our travel in smaller rural towns---so this map certainly fits our needs very nicely.

Incorrect data cost us half a day of driving
We just spent two weeks driving through Southern Peru, with a Garmin GPS for navigation and this map as a back up. This map does not show any of the smaller villages and roads that are on the free digital GPS map at [...]. It includes some detail city maps, but they show less detail than the free maps you can get at each hotel. But a more important flaw is that it shows a main road between Arequipa and Juliaca that runs through Chiguata. The real main road runs through Yura, but is shown on this map as a minor road. We trusted this map, and ended up backtracking through hellish Arequipa traffic, losing about half a day in the process. It is an OK map to orient yourself with prior to your trip, or to follow along if you are in an organized tour. Do not rely on it for actual navigation.