The Rough Guide to Argentina

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Summary: very good
Review: a comprehensive guide to argentina, very well researched and not overly cumbersome. It fits nicely with the rough guide series as a whole, which tends to be slighly more informative and gives you more background history ect. Not a complete guide to argentina, its a big country, but certainly the best of the lot

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Summary: A definitive travel guide to Argentina
Review: Danny Aeberhard, Andrew Benson, and Lucy Phillips have successfully collaborated to produce a definitive travel guide to Argentina. Indeed, The Rough Guide To Argentina features coverage of all the attractions of Buenos Aires; vivid accounts of spectacular and varied landscapes ranging from the jungles of Misiones to the windswept vistas of Ushuaia (the world's southernmost town); comprehensive reviews of the best places for every budget level to stay, eat, and drink; and background information on Argentinean history and culture. The comprehensive and "user friendly" text is profusely illustrated with color photography and more than seventy maps. If you are planning a trip to Argentina, start your travel planning with a copy of The Rough Guide To Argentina!

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Summary: Recommended
Review: I travelled through Argentina for 2 months with this book as my companion. The book is a very good general purpose travel book for Argentina, with good information about national parks but also but also about the cities and everything else.

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Summary: Updated in 2004
Review: This new edition was published in late 2004, but after having problems obtaining from Amazon(common with new books from British publishers), I ordered from their UK website instead, and paid the extra cost of airmail shipping. (note: the latest editon has the peaks of Fitz Roy on the cover, not the cactus/Jesuit mission image from the previous edition).

As other reviewers state, this is one of the best guides to Argentina. However, I did immediately notice a couple of disappointing flaws:

1. I got this book within a month after publication, yet found that 1/3 to 1/2 of the websites listed were already dead links.
2. It mentions popular US (United, Delta, etc.) and Latin American airlines (Lan Chile, Aereolinas Argentina, etc.) but does not list what are currently the cheapest carriers out of Miami---as Avianca, Lloyd Aero Boliviano, Lacsa, or 202 Taca International.
3. There are some long-standing tour operators serving this region that are not listed here, and their package prices are below those of the companies that ARE listed. If you are a budget traveler from the U.S., check out the lastest info from Arthur Frommers' Budget Travel, available free online by following the "travel" link on msnbc's website.

My Argentine vacation is still a year away, so I can't yet attest to the accuracy of much of the other info. But like other books from the Rough Guides this one is hard to beat for its comprehensive content.

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Summary: Sadly Out of Date
Review: While containing a great deal of useful information on Argentina and the typically user-friendly Rough Guide layout, this guide is a woeful 4 years out of date.

With the massive financial crises that has hit Argentina in the last two years, the picture of costs provided in this book is totally out of touch with reality. Save yourself a lot of trouble and buy a guide published no earlier than 2003, 2004 if possible.