Product Description

Bali attracts visitors with its relative remoteness and unique culture. This book is designed to help travellers plan their trip and serve as a handy reference tool along the way. From the elephant safari park to white water rafting, from the views of Penelokan to the sunset at Petulu, this guide covers all the unmissable sights and activities. The new portable format with a rounded spine makes the guide more comfortable to carry on the move. It also includes a free touring map, highlighting the best drives in the region helping visitors to get the most out of their stay. The tours are designed to take visitors off the beaten track and highlight all the major sights along the way. The pull-out map is fully indexed and also includes inset city plans of major towns. There is also a section of insider's tips to help readers set priorities and save time and money.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1397295 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 292 pages

About the Author
Since 2000. Hammond, American Map, Langenscheidt Dictionaries, Insight Travel Guides, Delorme – the famous names in the Langenscheidt family. These represent the most authoritative, up-to-date, and extensive travel and reference products available. In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.

Customer Reviews

Okay guide
I am glad to see Insight guides doing lots of guidebooks again. I used them a lot 15 years ago and appreciated their sophistication and depth. I am just back from Bali and took this new guidebook and a couple of others. Sadly it was just okay. The Lonely Planet guide was better in every respect, especially with regard to its restaurant recommendations. You feel like the Insight guy ate free a lot. But I do appreciate the photography in this book and a lot of its cultural coverage.

Has good high level maps/pictures, but little by way of reccomendations
As we are planning a trip to Bali, this book does not provide you with a concise way to figure out what items are a "must-see" in Bali. It does have nice high level maps of each area of Bali (and Lombok - if you are interested) and colorful pictures, and breaks it up by region, but in no way helps you figure out what part of Bali to see, what to see in any part (and what isn't worth it) and where to stay. It is more a data repository of info rather than a perspective about what is good/bad. So if you want a list of everything with info about it, and not reccomendations, this book is good. If you haven't been there and need reccomendations, then this is not the book for you.

Adequate guide book for the first time Bali goer
If you've been to Bali before, this guide book probably won't help you discover out-of-the-way places or off the beaten path restaurants and hotels.
The book presents a decent overview of the country, but I didn't think it flowed well in terms of presenting the information for a first time site seeing trip. I got the guidebook for a potential trip and must admit it didn't make the trip rank any higher than fair-to-middlin' on my list of places to go next.
The pictures are striking and some very beautiful. The Bali A to Z guide at the end is also helpful to find general information arranged alphabetically. Personally I'd have preferred this to be towards the book's beginning.
If you like Insight Guides, this probably rates as one of their B minus attempts. There are some great Insight Guides out there, alas, this isn't quite one of them.