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| Baja California & Los Cabos (Regional Guide) | 
 enlarge | Author: Danny Palmerlee
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 65895
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 308
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 1741045649
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9781741045642
ASIN: 1741045649
Publication Date: August 1, 2007
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Product Description
Discover Baja California and Los Cabos
Commune with whale calves as their mothers nudge them to the surface for their very first breath.
Get dusty on the badder-than-bad backroad to Bahia Luis Gonzaga.
Suck down a caguama (that's Baja for beer) as you watch the sun set in Punta Abreojos.
Discover the delectable truth behind Baja's world-renowned invention, the Caesar salad.
In This Guide:
4872 miles, one black-widow bite, one superstar author still kicking, and 30 pages of the best damn maps anywhere.
Special surfing chapter written by none other than Surfer magazine editor Jake Howard - charge on!
Mi Querido Baja California feature revealing the lives of a painter, a doctor and a few more local experts.
And, since you asked for it, we've incorporated more off-track coverage than any other guidebook.
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| Customer Reviews:
 VERY useful book! June 7, 2008
I just got back from sailing down the pacific coast of baja cal. and this book was worth every penny. while this book was not written for sailing the information it had on small coastal villages was accurate and up to date. the historical sidebars were also quite interesting. Great Job!
 Not a Comprehensive Book February 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed in this book. I bought it soley for San Jose Del Cabo & Cabo San Lucas information, & a lot of restaurants & even resorts were missing. I found the sections on those two areas lacking in historial, cultural, sightseeing, restaurants, hotels and just about all "areas" of information. I would not recommend it if you want information on the two areas I mentioned above.
A great guide December 24, 2007
A trip to the Cabos usually does not involve a great deal of land travel as the Baja peninsula is long. But casual tourist and serious visitors alike can learn from this compact guide book. It is the best of the travel books dedicated to Baja that I have seen.
 Easily Readable But Lacking Correct Information September 15, 2006
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
My wife and me chose this LP guide for our recent trip to Baja Norte. I actually enjoyed Palmerlee's writing style and his side commentaries on the Baja music scene and other topics of interest. However, there were just too many cases of inaccurate information. For example, Palmerlee says a taxi from Ensenada to La Bufadora is about $12 when actually the round trip cost given to us by numerous taxi drivers was $40. He then says (correctly) that you can save money by taking a $1 bus to the town of Maneadora. But from there, he says, you must hitchhike to La Bufadora. The truth is, as we discovered by talking to the locals, you can easily catch another $1 bus from Maneadero to La Bufadora. Thus avoiding the hitchhiking which many people, including my wife, would not want to try.
Another problem was that the hotel recommendations were too often off the the mark. For example, at the highly recommended Hotel Los Pelicanos in Rosarito we were taken to a dark, dreary room by a very unfriendly hotel receptionist. Of course, we chose not to stay there.
I know that prices change and good places go bad. But still this book just had too many inaccuracies for me to recommend it. In fact, my wife started saying we should read what the Lonely Planet guide said and then do the opposite. I think this was probably a bit of an overstatement on her part. But still I'm sure this is the last thing LP wants to hear from it's readers. By the way, Lonely Planet is still my favorite publisher of travel guides. But hopefully the book we purchase for our next trip will provide better information.
compact and user friendly July 2, 2006
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
the moon book is like reading a code many times, difficult to obtain the info you desire. the costs of rooms and cafes are in layers, $ $$ $$$ or over $25, $25-50 etc, and you never really know if it costs $25 or $50, same with meals, and it has no easy to find color map, requiring one to search thru the different sections to find a black & white map covering a large area, and then you have to try and find the area of interest.
the lonely planet is about 1/3 as thick, has prices for room and meals in every range, and specific dollar amounts. somehow it was able to jam enormous user needed info into a small space and leave out much of the vague data in the moon book. Easy to carry and a real joy to look thru.
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