A rail journey around India, beginning & ending in Mumbai...

A rail journey around India, beginning & ending in Mumbai...

Monday 22 April 2013

Lonely Planet---India.

             
The travellers' bible. The new 2013, 30th. edition of Lonely Planet's 'India'. 1230 pages and weighing in at nearly two kilos. Not sure what this will feel like after carrying it all day in 40 degree+ Celsius days of sightseeing! Jam-packed with general and specific tourist information. Have heard however, that the hotel and restaurant recommendations are so slavishly followed by the book's readers that they become 'sold out' and impractical.  I do not typically travel with guide books in hand, preferring to pick-up local information as I go. India appears to be such a rich, diverse & logistically challenging long-distance travel project, that I am certainly going to need all the information, support and advice that I can garner.