——古老的传奇 对历史学家而言，希腊无疑是富有魅力的国度，哲学、政治、历史、语言、戏剧、体育……几乎西方文明的所有要素都可以在这里找到它们的根。深厚的历史积淀和文化传统是希腊人引以为傲的，也是他们愿意和来访者分享的。 对旅行者来说，希腊更是一个神奇的地方。不管你选择什么交通工具，一踏上希腊的土地，你都会立刻陶醉在地中海灿烂的阳光里。从那一刻起，你就成了风景的一部分。蓝天在上，白沙在下，震撼人心的文明遗迹，风味独特的美酒佳肴，热情好客的希腊人民……所有这一切都让会让你不可抗拒地爱上这个美丽的国家。 在你踏上这片神奇的土地，开始一段摄人心魄的旅程之前，本书将是一个精彩的预演。
Want more bang for your baht? This city won't disappoint. Forget the tourist-brochure Bangkok of sedate floating markets and sterile shopping malls - you're in for a wild ride. Bangkok is bursting at the seams with cosmopolitan cool and cultural prosperity: think uber-hip bars, scrumptious Thai cuisine, international fashion houses and stunning wats. This insider's guide is your ticket to the best that Bangkok has to offer. LET THE EXPERTS DO THE WORK, with tips on the best shopping deals, hotels, and guesthouses and city tours. BE TEMPTED by the world's tastiest food; we show you Bangkok's finest eating, from streetside stalls to top-class restaurants. BEAT YOUR OWN PATH using our detailed maps and walking tours. GET OUT OF TOWN and explore nearby beaches, a Unesco World Heritage site and glorious national parks. SPEAK UP using our handy language guide, packed with useful phrases.
A brand new series from "Insight" brings you the "Smart Guide" for smart travelers. The unique and innovative A-Z format of "Smart Guides" allows you to plan your trip according to your own personal taste. Themed headings cover over 400 amazing things to see and do from architecture, bars, cafes, churches, fashion, history, hotels, museums, nightlife, restaurants, shopping, theater and much more for a truly tailor-made, individual travel experience.Area overviews conveniently highlight the best each district has to offer helping you to set priorities for your trip and the front-cover flap highlights all the top sights of the destination. The guide also contains a street atlas with full index and detailed mapping which is cross-referenced to the main text for ease of use and transport maps are provided to help you get around and explore. The back-cover flap provides useful phrases to help you get by, along with other useful contact information.
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This brand new edition provides a comprehensive and highlyvisual introduction to Rome; over 600 superb photographs capturethe history, local people and variety of everyday life in one ofItaly's most magical cities. The 'Places' section provides adetailed, district-by-district exploration of all the places tovisit and principal sites along the way are clearlycross-referenced by number to the full-colour maps found throughoutthe guide. Expanded and updated restaurant listings feature thebest eateries to suit all budgets within each area, providing theaddress, phone number, opening times and price range, followed by auseful review. The 'Top Sights' section covers everything yousimply can't afford to miss, from the iconic monuments of AncientRome to the vibrant squares of Campo de' Fiori. A brand new'Editor's Choice' section illustrates top recommendations,including lesser-known attractions, events, family activities aswell as money-saving hints. Expert local writers provideauthoritative essays on the city
This fully revised and updated Berlitz Pocket Guide is packedwith all the information you need to enjoy Rome, in a genuinelypocketable format. Places to go are explored within easy-to-use,colour-coded sections, so you can locate the information you needat a glance. The city's top attractions are conveniently identifiedto help you plan your trip and to ensure you see the mostspectacular architecture, parks, fountains and other unmissableattractions. The brand new 'Perfect Day' feature is designed tolink all the most exclusive experiences that won't fail to inspireyou, beginning with breakfast on the piazza and ending with drinksat a trendy bar, helping you to plan your ideal time in the'Eternal City'. From Ancient Rome and Centro Storico to theVatican, Monti and Esquilino, all areas are covered in depthalongside full-colour photographs that give a highly visualintroduction to the city. Full colour fold-out maps provide instantorientation wherever you are and include a plan of theMetro/Suburban Rail. For
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A brand new 'Smart Guide' from Insight, featuring an A-Zformat that allows you to find your way around the book with easeand plan your trip according to your very own personal taste.Themed headings cover over 400 things to see and do fromarchitecture, history, cafes and hotels, to nightlife, restaurants,bars, shopping and much more, allowing you to set your ownpriorities for a truly tailor-made and individual travelexperience. The front-cover flap highlights all the top attractionsand pinpoints exactly where to find these within the guide, forquick and easy reference at a glance. Area overviews convenientlyhighlight the very best each district has to offer, from the oldMedina to the 'Ville Nouvelle' of Gueliz, through the MouassineQuarter and the Menara. The guide also contains a transport map and10-page street atlas with full index and detailed mapping,cross-referenced to the main text for easy navigation. Theback-cover flap provides on-the-spot practical information, such asimportant telephone number
The only hotel guide wholly based on consumer feedback making it a truly unique and non-biased guide to finding the best place to stay in Australia and New Zealand. The guide comes with a FREE loyalty card for HotelClub.com with great savings of up to 60 per cent on over 20,000 hotels across 97 countries and GBP15 credit on initial registration. Each of the top 300 hotels featured have been tried and tested by clients of HotelClub.com, the world's leading online booking company with 2 million members. Each hotel recommendation includes an independent de*ion, a full-colour photograph and details of the facilities available. Hotel locations are plotted on full-colour maps and the accommodation is assessed according to value for money, family friendliness, cleanliness, facilities, staff attitude, location and restaurants.
Wallpaper* City Guides are an exciting, stylish new concept in travel guides published by Phaidon Press and Wallpaper* magazine. Glamorous, global and affordable, the new travel guides can be acquired for only $8.95 and feature the world's greatest cities, from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to Sydney, London to Los Angeles. Aimed at the design conscious traveller, the guides offer just the right amount of insider knowledge on the world's most popular cities, from where to stay and what to visit, to where you should eat, shop and be seen. Ideal for a weekend break or business travel, their discreet, pocket sized format tells you everything you need to know, giving you the inside track on what can not be found anywhere else. The guides have been compiled by Wallpaper* magazine's international editors and travel writers who have lived in the featured cities. They provide up-to-the-minute information and authoritative advice on the hottest of venues in the coolest of cities. Each guide will be updated annua
Bathed by the waters of two oceans, Thailand'svaried diving environments are home to colorful coral reefs and animpressive diversity of marine life. Live-aboard ships explore theoffshore islands with their beautiful white-sand beaches and lushvegetation, and go beyond the Thai border to newly pioneered divesites in Myanmar. A rich culture and well-developed infrastructuremake this the most popular diving region in SoutheastAsia.
Take a fresh approach to San Fransisco with this "Step by Step"guide, part of a brand new, stylishly designed series from InsightGuides. Lavishly illustrated in full colour, this book featuresirresistible self-guided walks and tours, written by a local expertand packed with great insider tips. Whether you are new to the cityor a repeat visitor, whatever your interests, and however long yourstay, this book is the perfect companion, showing you the smartestway to link the sights and taking you beyond the beaten touristtrack. All the walks and tours come with clear, easy-to-followfull-colour maps and hand-picked places to eat and drink en route.A 'Key Facts' box at the start of each tour highlights therecommended time needed to enjoy it to the full, plus the distancecovered and a start and end point; all this makes it simple to findthe perfect tour for the time you have to spare. The book alsorecommends top tours by theme and includes a special 'Only in'feature, highlighting a number of experiences or attractio
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No other Asian city offers pure excitement and non-stop top holiday experiences quite like Bangkok. Think steamy, noodle-stall-packed streets and countless shining shopping malls, gilded temple spires beside cloud-piercing modern skyscrapers. Want to know Bangkok like the back of your hand? Put Best of Bangkok in your pocket and the city is yours. PLAN YOUR STAY with our easy-to-use fold-out maps, suggested itineraries and walking tours HIT THE STREETS and follow us around Bangkok's absolute must-see sights and attractions SHOP UP A STORM at international designer stores, monster-sized malls and lively markets. Find out why this city is known worldwide as a shopping mecca! SHAKE YOUR BOOTY with the city's movers at dance clubs, pubs and swanky cocktail bars CHECK IN, CHILL OUT in five-star luxury or a low-key guesthouse - every hip pocket is accounted for in our accommodation listings
Lost at a train station? To buy a ticket, turn to page 40. Tofind a hotel, go to 55. Hot day, blue sky? To hit the beach, turnto page 141. To meet a local, open page 93. Take this phrasebookand choose your own adventure! Our phrasebooks give you acomprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in morethan 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture- a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.
A brand new edition of Insight's Step by Step Marrakesh. Thisitinerary-based guide details 14 of Marrakesh's best walks andtours, written by a local expert, for that personal touch andinsider information. All itineraries are arranged by theme for atruly tailor-made travel experience, so whether you want tonavigate through the hustle and bustle of the souks, enjoy themellow ambience of the coastal towns or relax amongst the unspoiltmountain scenery of Imlil and Mount Toubkal, then there is a tourto suit all. From entertainment, architecture, shopping, parks andgardens and more, this guide covers the best of Marrakesh to makeyour trip truly unforgettable. For those wanting to enjoy the fulltravel experience, this is an ideal way to link the top attractionswith places to eat, drink and rest along the way, along withopening times and admission prices. All itineraries are marked onfull-colour detailed maps alongside the text and also on aseparate, fully indexed pull-out map that can be used inconjunction wi
This brand new edition Insight Guide to Chile and EasterIsland features a wealth of inspiring full-colour photography,including outstanding double page spreads. The top ten sights areidentified to show you the very best of Chile and Easter Island andto help you plan your trip priorities, whether that be exploringthe Torres del Paine National Park at the southern tip of theAndes, or the hundreds of Moai statues that cover Easter Island. Abrand new 'Editor's Choice' section reveals the local author'sselection of the most unique experiences Chile has to offer. Anin-depth 'Places' section covers the entire country, region byregion, with all the principal sites cross-referenced by number toaccompanying full-colour maps throughout the guide. Additional mapsinside the front and back covers enable instant orientation andeasy navigation at a glance. Attractive colour-coded sectionscontain fascinating features that explore Chile's history andculture from before the Spanish colonisation to the present day. Acompr
This new edition Insight Guide to Sri Lanka features illuminating text written by expert, local writers alongside inspiring full-colour photography, including over 250 brand new photographs that will bring Sri Lanka's people and places to life, at the turn of a page. The top attractions are highlighted to help you plan your trip priorities and a brand new 'Best of' section features recommendations on many exclusive experiences. An in-depth 'Places' section covers the entire country, region by region, with all the principal sites cross-referenced by number to accompanying full-colour maps throughout the guide. Additional maps inside the front and back covers enable instant orientation and easy navigation at a glance. Attractive colour-coded sections contain fascinating features that explore Sri Lanka's history and culture. A comprehensive 'Travel Tips' section provides essential practical information, covering transport, visas and passports, accommodation for all budgets, climate, the arts, shopping, language
Tuck into oysters at Cork, discover the vibrant atmosphere ofDublin, surround yourself with the wild beauty of Killary Harbor.This completely updated Green Guide hand-picks the best Ireland hasto offer. Clearly set out by region with color photos, maps andillustrations, this resourceful guide suggests what to do and whereand offers vacation itineraries and in-depth features on art andculture. The address book gives the best places to stay andrestaurants to feast in. Green Guide Ireland is the only guide onIreland you'll need.
