Cultured Travel Guide Books - Knopf City Guide to Rio de Janeiro (Knopf Guides) |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 918.1530464
EAN: 9780375706110
ISBN: 0375706119
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 1999-04-20
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: 1999-04-20
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Summary: Useful and beautiful
Comment: As a native of Rio I have to say I found it simply one of the best and easiest guides about the Wonderful City. Light and essential, it is perfect to be carried everywhere on your trip. It covers all the basics and will be able to take you to all major attractions and sights on this fabulous city. An informal, compact, colorful and useful guide for a fun loving place. Just buy it !
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Summary: Good option to Rio
Comment: This guides does a good job on guiding you around Rio. Some of the attractions of this wonderful city, full of magnificent nature and historic buildings, were not mentioned or well described. But this guide is surely one of the best options for the foreign visitor to Rio.
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Summary: Look elsewhere for information regarding Rio
Comment: This guide (??) does not do a very good job of guiding one around Rio de Janeiro. Too many cute icons...colored circles...arrows pointing in all directions...squares ...triangles...all mashed together leading to total confusion and frustration. More of a headache than a help. Very colorful....slick package but does not produce.
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These striking new guides are so appealing that you won't be able to put them down--even after you've stopped traveling. Slender and light, they fit into your purse or pocket. The traveler gets a rich flavor of a city through 600 vibrant color photographs while being guided through the 400 best hotels, restaurants, shops, and cultural sights.
Each guide is divided into nine sections: Everything You Need to Know takes you into a given city and explains local transportation once you are there; Where to Stay lists 80 hotels with a wide range in price; Where to Eat includes everything from diners to four-star restaurants; After Dark shows you the clubs, discos, theaters, and concert halls; What to See guides the traveler from museums to cultural monuments and other places of interest; Further Afield provides 36 excursions just outside the city to historic houses, botanical gardens, zoos, or museums; and Where to Shop features 80 different boutiques, department stores, and markets. At the back are subway and bus routes and 10 double-page spreads of city Maps. Also included is the Business Reference Guide, with information for the business traveler on the city's stock exchange, major banks, business newspapers, television and radio stations, as well as a schedule of conventions.
The Knopf City Guide to Rio de Janeiro goes to the heart of the exotic and sensual city, clarifying its Latin rythms and its customs, its daily life, its night life. It takes you from a walk on the hot sands of Copacabana Beach to a night of Brazilian music at Canecao to a trip through the Botanical Gardens with its orchidarium to a stay at the Luxor Pousada--a small hotel just outside Rio in the 18th-century goldmining town of Ouro Preto, where you can visit glorious baroque churches--to the imperial summer palace at Petropolis, the mountain resort of a Brazilian emperor.
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