Features
- Turtleback: 328 pages
- Published by: DK Travel
- Edition: Revised Edition January 1, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0756601746
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0756601744
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Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.1 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Review
This colorful and thoughtfully arranged guide provides easy access to Thai history and culture, religion and politics, music, sports, and festivals. From Chiang Mai to Bangkok, Phuket to Ko Samui, the many pleasures, diversions, sites, and activities are detailed in a conveniently usable format. Orchid parks and elephant training centers, wats and Buddhas, beaches, treks, museums, and rainforests--it's all there to peruse and choose. With lists of hotels and restaurants, information on shopping, whitewater rafting, golf, diving, Thai massage, and lots of maps and pictures, Dorling-Kindersley has put together a guide that's both practical and gorgeous.
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Product Review
You feel, looking at them, as if you could close the book and step into the street. --
Contra Costa Times considered to be the world's best travel resource to over thirty destinations around the world, make it easier to plan a splendid vacation. --
North American Press SyndicationBoth novice and experienced travelers will be captivated. --
US News & World ReportEach book is a visual as well as informational feast about a particular place. --
The New York TimesEncyclopedic in scope, it's meant to be used before, during, and after your stay. --
Travel & LeisureThe best travel guides ever. --
Sky Magazine -Delta In flight MagazineThe most graphically exciting and visually pleasing series on the market. --
Chicago TribuneWant to know where to get a great espresso on your way to the Uffizi? Or how much to tip a hotel maid in
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People Magazine
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: Eyewitness Travel Guide to Thailand (Paperback)
As a Thai, I found this book surprisingly accurate to a certain degree. Even to some notorious aspects about Thailand, it provides some truthful information rather than worse-than-reality stuff for those potically correct issues. The graphics is amazing and precise in terms of Thai architecture (I'm an architect). Another compliment goes to some inside info e.g. shopping districts and local customs. I even decided to buy a copy myself even though it's my own country as a good intro to Thailand whenever my Ameican friends ask me to describe it which they usually do. I recommend this book for people who search for cultural aspect rather than hotels and restaurants. I'm using some books from this very series to travel in Europ too.