Lonely Planet Delhi 3/E

by Patrick Horton, Hugh Finlay, Richard Plunkett

The Taj Mahal is just a day's journey away from this delightful destination--and Lonely Planet's city guide to New Delhi tells travelers the best way to get there. Details on the city's hotels and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1864502975
• ISBN13: 9781864502978
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

If You're Going you Better have a good guide- and this is the best.

If you're doing the 'typical' first time trip to India - the Golden Triangle - this is all you need - no reason to have a full guide to India since the south is completely different from the north - carrying a full guide to India if you're just going to Delhi, The Taj Mahal, and say Jaipur, is like carrying a guide to to Poland for a trip to France - I guess that's why Lonely Planet decided to publish this concise guide. Traveling to India takes a lot of preparation and you discover you forgot to do half the preparation you needed when you get there - this book helps full the gaps, prepare you for the shocks, gives great connection information to the often confusing and chaotic, but surprisingly pretty well ran Indian railways. It also gives you good thumbnail estimates about prices -which is essential for Western travelers as you are continuously the target of price gouging. Highly recommended.

very useful

nother reliable guide by the folks at Lonely Planet.The Delhi guide provides a good introduction to Delhi with a good review of history and culture.It covers all the key highlights in the Delhi area and the places to stay and eat have good recommendations. However the restaurant, shopping and entertainment listings are a bit out of date now. It is impossible to keep listings accurate in a place as chaotic as India, where many of the best places to eat are roadside stalls. The excursions section focuses mostly on Agra and Jaipur. For someone who wants to travel around using Delhi as a base, the LP North India guidebook may be more useful as it has most of the Delhi information but includes more comprehensive material on Rajasthan and the Indian Himalayan areas. The maps are good but lack detail because most maps only show the main roads while often many interesting places are found in alleyways and small lanes. This guide ( like the LP series) is budgert minded which is a good thing but many of Delhi's better restaurants and entertainment are in the upscale hotels.Very useful to the independent traveler who wants to spend some time in Delhi ( on a budget)

Lonely Planet Delhi

My daughter and I referred to this book constantly during our recent travel to India. We found it to be extremely useful, full of information that we needed, without having to sift through information that we didn't need. I highly recommend this book to anyone traveling to India on a trip that includes visits to Delhi and Agra.

A little gem....well worth the money.

Delhi is one of the most fascinating cities in the world and a vast culture shock for everyone that visits India for the first time. This little guide offers some excellent ways to prepare yourself for Delhi and to soften it's blow a little. The great advantage over the India LP guide is that it's size is more limited ( of course) so that you can easily put it in your pocket whilst wandering around AND that the information is much more comprehensive than the big guide. Be sure, India is not an easy place to travel and Delhi not an easy place to stay. The section of health is mandatory reading; you do not want to have any health problems in this place. Having said that, there is so much to see and to do that you need this guide to do a bit of proper planning ( your Indian guide will not do that for you since they always seem to have a second agenda like bringing you to stores where they get a commission). The best way to see Delhi is simply to rent a car and a driver for a day and tell him where you want to go.I have tried some of the walking tours and they are excellent. Even if it is too hot to walk, you can do them ( like I did) sitting in the back of a riksha and simply enjoy the variety of life in e.g. the Chandni Chowk area.As usual in the guide the prices for the hotels are the official ones and with a couple of inquiries through the many websites you can get formidable discounts. If you can afford it take a good hotel; it is money wisely spent if you want to withdraw a little form the overwhelming impressions of a day on the streets of Delhi. Also hygienic standards are considerably higher.There are two sections on Jaipur and Agra as well. In particular the latter warrants a visit when possible; the Taj Mahal is one of the great wonders of the world not to be missed. The guide gives you all the useful info on getting trains etc.Enjoy if you are going to this wonderful place and make sure you have this little LP guide with you all the time.

a fine book

it is a fine book but who will like to travel to this polluted city.Info. cannot be completely relied upon