a*********n 发帖数: 602 | 1 These two guidebooks are travellers' bible. Most backpackers carry either
one of
them. It is quite heavy to carry both,but sometimes are necessary.
For me, most difficult and challenging daily route while on the road is that
every
morning I have study both and design my own daily itinerary which
incorporate
factors like transporation, accomendation, restaurants, everything all
together
with the goal of maximizing the time, money and adventure experience.
In the end, both guidebooks didn't disappoint me.
Lonely planet actually led me find a nice boutique courtyard hotel in
Beijing
which I didnt know before even I grew up there.
lets go led me into a lot of adventure experience in Europe, including some
shortcuts.
Regarding europe, Rick steves's backdoor through Europe is another excellent
guide
series, which was so popularon druing the prime time on USA pbs channel.
http://www.ricksteves.com/
Lonely Planet:
is one of the largest travel guidebook publishers in the world. It was the
first
popular series of travel books aimed at backpackers and other low-cost
travellers.
As of 2008, it published about 500 titles in 8 languages, with annual sales
of
more than six million guidebooks, as well as TV programs, a magazine,
podcasts and
websites.
Lonely Planet has a television production company, which has produced four
series:
Lonely Planet Six Degrees, The Sport Traveller, Going Bush, Vintage New
Zealand
and Bluelist Australia. Lonely Planet is headquartered in Footscray, a
suburb of
Melbourne, Australia, with affiliate offices in London and Oakland,
California.
Since 2007, the company has been controlled by BBC Worldwide, which owns a
75%
share, while founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler own the remaining 25%.
The company name comes from a misheard line in "Space Captain," a song by
Joe
Cocker and Leon Russell. The actual words are "lovely planet" but Tony
Wheeler
heard "lonely planet" and liked it.
The founders, Tony and Maureen Wheeler, have written a book titled Once
While
Travelling: The Lonely Planet Story (known as Unlikely destinations: The
Lonely
Planet story in North America) telling how they met and married, how they
travelled from London to Australia overland and how Lonely Planet was formed.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
let's go:
Let's Go is a travel guide company run entirely by Harvard University
students,
founded in 1960 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The first Let's Go guide
was a
20-page mimeographed pamphlet put together by an ambitious Harvard freshman
named
Oliver Koppell, to be handed out on student charter flights to Europe. The
first
professionally published guide was issued in 1961. Early guides tended to be
freewheeling, for example advising travelers on motorbiking through
Southeast Asia
in the late 1960s and financing travel in Europe by singing in the street.
The
first edition included tips on traveling from Europe to Asia on just four
cents,
by taking the ferry across the Bosphorus. In 1982, Let's Go travel guides
began to
be published by St. Martin's Press.
Ever "witty and irreverent," Let's Go books are produced by traveling
student
researcher-writers, who send raw copy to teams of editors and cartographers
(also
students) in the United States. Researcher-writers are hired and trained in
the
spring, with the bulk of travel and research conducted from June to August.
In
order to keep the writing true to the budget heritage of the series,
researcher-
writers are paid a daily stipend intended to cover only basic expenses.
Every
establishment listed in the guides has been visited and recommended by
researcher-
writers, meaning that tens of thousands of cafes, castles, hostels,
hotsprings,
nightclubs, national parks, waterfalls, and wax museums are visited every
summer.
The guides are edited and published over the summer and are often on
bookstore
shelves by October.
As of 2008, there are 55 books in the series, casting light on places from
Australia to Turkey. These guides range from regular country guides to
adventure,
city, and roadtrip guides, many of which are updated annually. Let's Go also
has
10 pocket city guides in its series. Let's Go: Europe is the world's
bestselling
budget travel guide title.
http://www.letsgo.com/ | a*********n 发帖数: 602 | 2 Well, if you travel between cities and want to find fun things to do,
where magazine and time out magazine are good resources to locate what is
going on around the town.
You could get the free copies from hotel concierge.
http://www.wheretraveler.com/classic/index.html
http://www.timeout.com/ |
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