Best Central American Travel
Color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Budget-oriented recommendations with honest reviews - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, music, cuisine, sports, wildlife, environment, architecture, literature, cinema, current events Over 90 maps Covers Mexico's Yucatán & Chiapas, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and more. Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing. Source: Nielsen BookScan.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Call me crazy...but I feel like a book with "on a shoestring" in the title should really spend more time reviewing budget accommodations and skip the expensive hotels."
"Great book with tons of great information."
"Came sooner than expected and the book is great."
"Those who like to include off-the-beaten path travel, should consult Lonely Planet’s individual country books for gems that are even better than the easily-gotten-to sites."
"Really a god guide!"
"There should be separate (thin) books for each Central American country to spare single-country visitors from lugging such a thick volume; the country-specific e-chapters are a poor alternative due to careless layout and, in El Salvador, spotty Internet access."
TWO PLANE TICKETS, NO PLAN, ONE DREAM. Happier Than A Billionaire shares one couple's celebration of risking it all for the dream of living a happier life. As Profiled on CNN.com "One point Nadine learns from her experience is that we are all allowed to choose how we ingest what life deals us and I thank her for reminding me. She enjoys traveling, writing, and prefers to have a commute that ends with sipping a pina colada on a tropical beach.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"We originally bought it more for informational purposes regarding moving to Costa Rica and the details involved."
"Suffering total burnout from owning a business that required 14 to 16 hour days 6 days per week with never a holiday off and on 3 blood pressure meds a day I knew that something really had to change if I were going to make 60. If Nadine and Rob could do it at their age, then why couldn't a 59 year old divorced guy with a grown son, high blood pressure and other stress related health issues walk away from it all and start enjoying what God has given us."
"To make a long story short Nadine's books, Happier Than A Billionaire, The Sequel and The Costa Rica Escape Manuel has saved us tens of thousands of dollars in what could have been a costly real estate deal."
"I have visited Costa Rica and was also impressed by the teeming nature of the environment mixed with a slow moving pace."
"Her writing style makes it feel more like you’re having a conversation with an old friend rather than staring at a bunch of words on a page written by a stranger. This is down to earth, real-life stuff that most of us regular folks can relate to, which makes it even funnier. It doesn’t matter whether you are planning on moving to Costa Rica, visiting Costa Rica, or simply wanting to laugh and escape the reality of jobs, kids, bills, and the daily grind."
"In addition to being a funny, charming, and very honest account of an overworked couples move to Costa Rica, Happier Than a Billionaire opened my eyes to all emptiness I had been feeling in my own life. We had always dreamed to moving to Costa Rica "someday," Nadine gave us the extra push we needed and I can not thank her enough."
Snorkel the teeming reefs off Manzanillo, explore some of the globe's best wildlife-watching destinations, or dig into Costa Rican culture and cuisine in San Jose ; all with your trusted travel companion. Full-color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - cuisine, customs, history, landscapes & ecology, wildlife, surfing, cloud forests, politics Over 50 color maps Covers San Jose, Central Valley, Highlands, Northwestern Costa Rica, Peninsula de Nicoya, Central Pacific Coast, Southern Costa Rica, Peninsula de Osa, Golfo Duce, Carribean Coast, Northern Lowlands and more. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a great book, I do wish there were more housing suggestions in each of the cities."
"Good, but not really comprehensive."
"you have to know the location of where you are going."
"Love this book."
"Very helpful for my trip!"
"Informative and up to date."
"Really fantastic book for people who are visiting Costa Rica."
"very informative and halpful."
Best Central & South America Travel
Color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Budget-oriented recommendations with honest reviews - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, music, cuisine, sports, wildlife, environment, architecture, literature, cinema, current events Over 90 maps Covers Mexico's Yucatán & Chiapas, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and more. Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing. Source: Nielsen BookScan.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Great book with tons of great information."
"Came sooner than expected and the book is great."
"Call me crazy...but I feel like a book with "on a shoestring" in the title should really spend more time reviewing budget accommodations and skip the expensive hotels."
"Those who like to include off-the-beaten path travel, should consult Lonely Planet’s individual country books for gems that are even better than the easily-gotten-to sites."
"Really a god guide!"
"There should be separate (thin) books for each Central American country to spare single-country visitors from lugging such a thick volume; the country-specific e-chapters are a poor alternative due to careless layout and, in El Salvador, spotty Internet access."
Best Budget Travel
If you are not rich, but dream of seeing our beautiful world from the deck of your own boat, this book is packed full of practical and spiritual advice to help you cut through the endless marketing and identify what it is you truly need to become a modern sea gypsy and sail away on the greatest adventure of your life…. He became a RYA qualified skipper in 2008 and has lived aboard every day since 2007 when he bought his first boat Marutji – a steel Van de Stadt 34 (pictured on the cover).
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The provide information on which hull shapes are recommended, what to look for in your boat (and what to avoid), they also give great advice on maintaining your vessel and what to avoid."
"Interesting take on considerations made for affordable and comfortable sailboat cruising."
"Though a little over the top in the beginning, bashing corporate everything, the book settled in to very good and strong information."
"It is amazingly written, full of real info, and extremely funny."
"Having done some cruising in the past I’m now looking forward to an early retirement and becoming, as the authors put it, a sea gypsy."
"We look up to them, we love them and we feel like we know them personally now :). We would recommend anyone wanting to really live aboard and see the world to read their book and follow in their footsteps !"
"Well written, easy to read."
"I've read everything I can get my hands on about sailing and cruising for 5 or so years now and this book continues to hold my top ranking for solid advise!"
Best South American Travel
While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer’s perilous path in search of the truth—except he’d written about adventure far more than he’d actually lived it. “[An] engaging and sometimes hilarious book.”— The New York Times Book Review “A serious (and seriously funny) travelogue, a smart and tightly written history, and an investigative report into perhaps the greatest archaeological discovery in the last century.”—NationalGeographic.com. “An engaging, informative guide to all things Inca.”— Entertainment Weekly.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"If you are only going to read one book about Machu Picchu before you visit this should be that book."
"Mark Adams' account of his adventure has something for everyone...the middle aged male who shucks the cubicle for adventure, the adventurer who wants an authentic account of exploring the still remote corners of the globe and most...those who have long thought of making the trek to Peru and Machu Picchu."
"I now know going anywhere other than from Cusco to Machu Picchu requires preparedness and awareness to keep from getting into trouble with vicious plants and stupid mistakes that can wreck things in a hurry."
"Having been to Machu Picchu 32 years ago I thoroughly enjoyed reading Mark's account of his travels there."
"If you are a true adventurer, then this is the book for you!"
"I wish that this book had been available before I went to Lima, Cusco and Machu Picchu and other parts of Peru in September and October of 1987."
"Part travelogue, part personal narrative, part history lesson, it read like a novel and I enjoyed the author's humor and turn of phrase."
"I ordered this book on a whim 3 days before a trip to Peru, figuring I ought to learn as much as possible during my short travel opportunity."
Best Mexican Travel
This new edition includes: Time-saving vocabulary panels that eliminate having to look words up Advice on how to avoid common mistakes A detailed answer key for quick, easy progress checks Supporting audio recordings, flashcards, and auto-fill glossary available online and via app. Gilda Nissenberg Ph.D. , is an experienced educator and faculty trainer.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Complete Spanish Grammar is another book in the Practice Makes Perfect series which happens to be a real bargain for the price. For example: - Irregular verbs. - Stem changing verbs. - Ser and estar. - Determining when to use the preterit tense vs. the imperfect tense. - The future and the conditional. - The progressive tenses. - The present perfect and the past perfect. - The future perfect and the conditional perfect. - The passive voice and passive constructions. - Not just the present subjunctive but also the imperfect and the pluperfect subjunctive. - Commands. - Nouns and articles. - Adjectives, adverbs, pronouns and prepositions. - And a lot more. One features that I found helpful about this book is that the author includes verb charts that you can quickly use as a reference. But the two things that I like most about this book are: One, the author gives plenty of advice on how to avoid many of the common mistakes that native English speakers make when speaking Spanish. You can conveniently take it anywhere with you when vacationing in a Spanish speaking country in order to have more than 700 phrases in your Spanish-vocabulary arsenal. The program is geared toward the foreign-language learner who wants to eventually achieve fluency in Spanish instead of someone who just wants to learn a few travel phrases. Compared to the other programs that I have used, this one does the best job at teaching you how to develop an authentic sounding Latin American Spanish accent."
"The author easily explains the rudiments of grammar--starting with verb tenses-- while offering many challenging exercises with answer keys in the back."
"Great resource for helping with learning or researching self Spanish."
"Very good book, very helpful."
"I have been teaching high school Spanish for 29 years and these workbooks are great supplements to my textbook!"
"For one thing, she uses vocabulary in the exercises that are nowhere in the book - not in the glossary, not in any of the other exercises, nor in any of the vocabulary boxes that appear on some pages."
"Just in chapter 1, the verbs shown in tables come up so small and faint they are illegible without blowing the font sky-high and rotating the text each time you want to look at one, so easy back reference isn't possible."