Egypt (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Author: DK Publishing
- Publisher: DK Travel
- Release Date: August 2007
- ISBN-10: 075662875X
- ISBN-13: 9780756628758
- List Price: $25.00
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Love all the DK books
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I love the DK books because of all the pictures. They give you a really good idea what a place looks like before you get there plus gives you brief descriptions of the most interesting and popular places to go. It is not a stand alone book however, because it is not filled with details. For the details, you'll also need a Rough Guide or Lonely Planet. Those books are much more in depth. I always combine a DK book with one of the others and have all the info I need.
Egypt, Eyewitness Travel Guide
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Excellent publication., Helped out a lot on my trip to Egypt. Price was very reasonable and item arrived much quicker than I expected
I love DK travel guides
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Just the right size to carry with you. Very convenient to read about sites as you are walking through them, or decide where you want to go. Beautiful layout and photos. Not so useful for hotel, restaurant recommendations. I haven't used it on the trip to Egypt yet, but I have used this guide for other trips and it's my favorite.
This is Not a guidebook.
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Badly organized--like an encyclopedia on Egypt and the main (obvious) touristy areas to go, with specific recommendations on restaurants and hotels at the very back of the book and not within each major destination section. Even there, the comments about each hotel and restaurant are just okay with not enough low budget options. Each page is PACKED with information and it's overwhelming, a lot of it is repeated over and over throughout the book - when I just want information quickly. The font is too small in some places where there are THREE columns on one page! It's too much and it makes finding answers too difficult when you need it fast. There are pretty pictures that take up two pages, when I'd rather save the weight on my pack and have useful information.. which this book doesn't have much of! This is a pretty glossy book, but it's supposed to be a travel guide, not something to sit on your coffee table to tell your friends "I want to go to Egypt someday!"
I want a travel guide that suggests the hidden gems of an area, this doesn't do that AT ALL. For the broad overviews that this book provides, I can do a fast google search and get better and more accurate information. For example, this book suggests credit cards aren't widely accepted, but Wikipedia Travel, message boards, and people living there say that isn't true (except for the most rural areas).
Want to go SCUBA diving? Great--there's a directory list of outdoor activities that includes some diving clubs (listed in the index under Diving and not SCUBA) but no price estimates or reviews of the places it lists, and it doesn't even say where the dive shop is located. Somewhere in Egypt! What? Instead, there's a beautiful page with pictures about all the sea-life you might see. Pretty, but not useful! Very Important information, like the proper amounts of tipping for specific activities is hidden in a small 4 inch long narrow column at the back of the book and only gives 3 or 4 examples, but tipping is an important part of Egyptian customs and should have been highlighted and easier to find. Maybe a tipping bar listing suggestions for several common actions that you should tip for--calling a taxi, carrying luggage, opening a door, pushing an elevator button (you can find this on WIkipedia travels page).
When I'm actually in Egypt this book might be helpful, but it takes too long to get information, long introductions and descriptions rather than providing useful and fast info., am I going to want to carry it around? Will it be better than the local brochures? I research which guidebook I wanted, chose the one with the best recommendations, so maybe this is the best one out there (there are a lot of complaints that there isn't a good one for Egypt). But, you're probably better off picking up brochures in English (or just going on the really inexpensive tours!) while you're in Egypt or going to the wikitravel page and printing it off to take with you.
Save $17. I wish I had.
Egypt
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A travel guide that goes into great detail and is full of beautiful pictures. The most informative and complete I have found.
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