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Lonely Planet has found the best of Nepal. Lose yourself in the temple-strewn alleys of Bhaktapur, the quiet beauty of a Himalayan vista or the vibrant excitement of a Bodhnath Stupa pilgrimage - then find your next adventure with our 8th edition of this indispensable guide.
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of each destination they visit. This to a complete degree modified edition is packed with accurate, practical and honorable advice, designed to give you the data you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
Adrenaline-packed actions chapter has you paddling, biking and climbing Nepal
Full-Color Feature reveals the best temples, festivals and mountain trails
Green Index helps you tread lightly

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11 of 11 humans found the following review helpful.
don't leave home without
By Stephen Pellerine
Have been to Nepal and found the lonely planet to be a utile tool there as it is in other places. If you are going to Nepal it would be wise to buy this as you may save the price of the book before you go from the counsel it gives in simple matters like booking gust houses and avoiding taxi scams as you arrive at the airport.

Remember that with this book on Nepal, and most Lonely Planet Book things will be out of date, this is a given as from the time of creation to the date of publication time has a tendency to change things, so even though I found things very dependable - but ready to be flexible within reason.

I would likewise commend another book or two on the region so you may build your background cognition on the area, peculiarly if you have not been to a nation like Nepal - BUT I feel from my travels abroad LP is something I don't leave home without.

3 of 3 persons found the following review helpful.
Mostly helpful in Nepal
By Ms Beastle
I was thrilled to have a Kindle version of this book, and the links worked well (once I got applied to using them.) Some items were vague, for example the Bat Cave in Pokhara - altho the selective information was true, perhaps more special importance and significance on just how little that exit hole is would have been more informative. Another example: a trail trek from Nangarkot to Changu Narayan was wholly not an easy trek - a lot of the trail is washed out, and there is no info on how long it is. (4 hours to a tiny town, with regards to halfway to Changa Narayan, then another 7 km uphill in a finelooking forest, but you'd better be in shape!) In usual it was a terrifi guide, but better to ask the locals with regards to specific treks, etc. One outstanding "Plus" is having it on the Kindle, it's not more weight in your backpack!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Pretty good
By Robert Cox
We lately (Feb 2012) returned from 3 week trip to Nepal. We hiked in the Everest region for a week, expended a week in Kathmandu, and a week journeying around by car. We took both the Lonely Planet and Rough Guide books with us. Generally, we found that the LP book was better, both in practical details and in internetsite descriptions. One thing we liked was the walking tours in LP -- through old town Kathmandu and through Bhaktapur -- RG has similar things, but without maps, and the LP has maps for these tours -- I can't imagine attempting them without the maps to aid guide myself. Also, in popular the LP maps are better than the RG maps. Generally, we like RG more, but for Nepal, LP was superior -- there were places where RG was better, but if you only take one book, LP is the way to go for Nepal.

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