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Title: The Rough Guide to Jordan - 3rd Edition (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
ISBN: 1843534584
Author:
Matthew Teller
Publicate Date: 2006-01-02
Publish: 2006-01-02
List Price: $19.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Very useful guide book
I ordered this guide based on the reviews and no regrets! I was in Jordan with my daughter and the book was fantastic! We followed the recommended tour in Petra and it was great. I like to be prepared before my trips and if you are planning to go to Jordan with this book you can't go wrong. Great guides great recommendations pefect travel mate!
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2: Helpful guide in planning my trip
I am planning a trip to Jordan in the fall and bought The Rough Guide to begin planning. It contains a lot of very useful information, as well as a nice photo section at the beginning to get you excited about your visit. I regularly use both Lonely Planet and The Rough Guide as I find they have a lot of the same information but different pluses and minuses (for example, I find I have to flip around a bit more in The Rough Guide to get prices and other details but they often have some better background information). Anyway, since I haven't traveled yet, I cannot comment on the accuracy of the information but it has certainly been useful in my planning.
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3: Review of The Rough Guide to Jordan - 3rd Edition
I am planning a trip to Jordan in 2008 and bought the book. It is a great guide. It is very detailed with all the information that anyone would want. I love maps with topography and this guide has several.
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4: Best overall guide at the moment
At the end of 2007, the Rough Guide (published January 2006) and the Lonely Planet (published April 2006) are the only guides to Jordan in English being somehow up to date (the April 2007 insight guide is more a picture book than a guide). We traveled independently in Jordan using a car, and had both. Very soon it became clear to us that the Rough Guide is more detailed and more accurate than the Lonely Planet. It was the one guide we took with us as a default at each stop we made. In Petra, each monument is described in enough detail, without being too long. The Petra chapter in the Lonely Planet is inadequate. The same goes for the famous Madaba map. Nevertheless, in the large Crusader castle of Karak, the Lonely Planet gave a map and devised a detailed tour plan, whereas the Rough Guide had an inadequate description. Also, whereas the Amman restaurants chapter in the Rough Guide is much easier to use, only the Lonely Planet mentions the popular, high quality and good value restaurant of "Al Tawaheen". For other sites (like the Shobak castle or for hiking), neither guide was good enough. For the multiple hiking possibilities through the gorges descending from the mountains we liked best the older guide (2000) by Itai Haviv (Amazon.com calls him incorrectly Ita) - "Trekking and Canyoning in the Jordanian Dead Sea Rift". In conclusion - if one buys only a single guide - we suggest the Rough guide, but getting also the other two we mentioned can improve any trip to Jordan.
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5: the best guide to Jordan
For a recent trip to Jordan I bought all the guidebooks I could find in bookstores, and this one is, by far, the best. Not only does it provide all the necessary, utilitarian information, but it provides great background reading on the history and culture of the country. Much better than the other available books, especially the Lonely Planet.
There was very little we saw that wasn't extensively and well covered. The author has clearly spent a great deal of time living and travelling through Jordan.
The recommendations for Amman and the most notorious tourist destinations (Petra, Wadi Rum, Dead Sea, Jerash) are uniformly accurate, clear, and useful, but the book also offers plenty of information about less obvious destinations - e.g. small towns along the main roads, always suggesting a good place to stop and have a snack and giving interesting historical details.
This is not only a practical and useful guidebook, but also an essential reference on Jordan for those willing to read or explore more. Very highly recommended.
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