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Discover Switzerland's territorial variations, activenesses and internet sites with the newly modified Green Guide Switzerland. Climb Dent de Vaulion's summits, cruise Lake Lucerne, feast on raclette, or shop at Europe's longest buying goods centers in Bern. Detailed maps, color photos and illustrations clarify the featured towns and vistas. Strapped for time? The valued star-rating scheme guides you to the best internet sites from a breathtaking, driving tour of Berninastrasse to a festival at Basel. Address books, suggested itineraries and well-researched background data see to it a successful trip.  Use with Michelin Switzerland Map No. 729.

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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Poorly coordinated and inaccurate
By Peter Stern
First of all, I purchased this guide thinking that it was the most up-to-date. It was advertised on Amazon as being published on May 15, 2009. Unfortunately, only when I started to use the guide and realized that much of the data (on prices, for example, or even worse, web sites that were temporarily closed for 2009) was faulty did I discover that it was genuinely printed in July 2008! Had I realized that before my trip I would have returned it. The guide is full of other little inaccuracies. We walked from Neuchatel to an archeological web site called Latenium, a distance of 4km/2.5mi. According to the guide, the Papiliorama (at nearby Marin!) was only 1km (~0.6mi) further down the road and we had planned to proceed our walk to there. Fortunately we changed our plans because the next day we ran into that the Papiliorama Nocturama (butterflies and nocturnal creatures) was genuinely at Kerzers, regarding 26km (16mi) away! We also had great difficultness in finding other web sites based on the directions given in the guide. We applied a diiferent guide a couple of years ago which gives hand drawn maps of a local web site for those hard-to-find places.
Moreover, the guide is organized in an anti-intuitive fashion. All the places in the guide are in alphabetical order. So when you want to follow one of the driving tours (there are over two dozen suggested), you have to skip back and forth in the book to get the details of each point rather of logically following numerous geographic route. Even if you want to design your own travel itinerary, finding the applicable selective information is cumbersome. I think that it makes much more sense to have places which are geographically close grouped together, since in any case, there is an alphabetical index for those who want to find data on a specific place.
All in all, a big disappointment.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent map of Switzerland + more
By Christine Bregenzer
Just as all other Michelin maps are, this one is no exception - very clear, easy to read, good use of color and has all the info I want when I need a reference for my emplacement and planned routes, destinations, etc. Having GPS and NAV-Tech gear in your car is great, but I always have a REAL map by my side just in case that gear sends me on the wrong route or takes me to non-existent roads or on "short-cuts" that are in truth private roads, not for public use. Have heard too a good deal of horror stories from others regarding that kind of trip. Having the best real map assures me I'll never be lost. Then there are those times when you ask for NAV -Tech gear in your rental car and the agency has none....then what're you going to do?

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Just what you Need
By Medici
Don't listen to the guy who gave this excellent, compact and light weight manual one star. This guide is dated 2011, so perchance the naysayer was referring to a prior edition. In any case, this Swiss guide doesn't in any way resemble the depracating remarks made with regards to it. Hopefully this "traveller" will be remaining at home and not propagating negative energy with regards to exceedingly helpful travel guides that others of us have purchased at reasonable expense, in order to support plan a once in a lifetime vacation.

This is a superb guide to Switzerland, with much standard and introductory info so you recognise something when it comes to the country before you go there. It even has a section on Nature. How galore guides may assert that? The guide is altered to the beginning of 2010, but it is value lay in the history, geography and culture you learn in reading it. It also has plentiful maps, per region. When I travel I always get local maps anyway, so the outrage over galore map inaccuracy is not relevant for halfway awake travellers, even if true to start out with, which I doubt. It's also exceedingly well and logically organized, beginning with frequent selective information and then going to the regions. There are overall maps of Switz. inside the front and back covers, describing driving tours and important sites. Then the maps become regional. The driving tours are arranged geographically, not alphabetically, and are distinctly shown in both the table of contents and the index at the back of the manual, as per the norm.

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