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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Iran is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience the lavishly decorated Ali Qapu Palace, explore the covered bazaars of Yazd, or try a variety of Iranian kababs; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Iran and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet Iran Travel Guide:
- Colour maps and images throughout
- Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
- Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
- Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
- Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
- Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including customs, history, art, literature, poetry, cinema, music, architecture, politics, wildlife, and cuisine
- Over 48 local maps
- Useful features - including Month-by-Month (annual festival calendar), Visas & Planning, and Travelling in Iran
- Coverage of Tehran, Kashan, Esfahan, Yazd, Shiraz, Qeshm Island, Garmeh, Mashhad, Masuleh, Tabriz, Soltaniyeh, Bisotun, Choqa Zanbil, Gorgan, Semnan, Damghan, Chalus, and more
eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices)
- Zoom-in maps and images bring it all up close and in greater detail
- Downloadable PDF and offline maps let you stay offline to avoid roaming and data charges
- Seamlessly flip between pages
- Easily navigate and jump effortlessly between maps and reviews
- Speedy search capabilities get you to what you need and want to see
- Use bookmarks to help you shoot back to key pages in a flash
- Visit the websites of our recommendations by touching embedded links
- Adding notes with the tap of a finger offers a way to personalise your guidebook experience
- Inbuilt dictionary to translate unfamiliar languages and decode site-specific local terms
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Iran, our most comprehensive guide to Iran, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled.
- Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Middle East guide for a comprehensive look at all the region has to offer.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Andrew Burke, Virginia Maxwell, and Iain Shearer.
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
- Sales Rank: #367527 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-06-01
- Released on: 2012-06-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Andrew Burke is an Australian poet who started out in the mid-sixties as a 'beat' poet in response to Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, et al. Since then he has dabbled in a million styles, and written in many genre - short stories, plays, songs, literary journalism and criticism, etc. To this day he believes you can write poetry in all genre, not just verse. He has had six books published, and teaches at Edith Cowan University at times, where he is also writing a novel for his PhD. His former wife, three children, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren also feature in his work.
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
A significant step backwards from the previous edition, with less content and inferior maps
By Bryce
The 2012 version of this book is some 60 pages shorter than the previous 2008 version (368 pages as compared to 428 pages--a difference that is actually much larger than it appears when you strip away sections on culture, history, and language and only focus on the travel guide sections--276 pages of travel coverage in 2008 to 205 pages in the new version), and in many instances the loss in coverage is substantial.
Take the city of Qeshm, for example: in the 2008 version LP lists 7 hotels, 2 restaurants, and a money changer (very important as you get a 20% better rate than banks offer); in the 2012 version (page 271, viewable in Amazon's "look inside" feature), however, there is only one hotel, one restaurant, and no money changers or banks listed. The rest of the information on Qeshm island is clearly based almost exclusively on tourism information provided by a local tourist/development organization (the Avaye Tabiate Paydar Institute), which may be very helpful but doesn't really meet the standard of truly unbiased, honest, and independently-researched advice I expect from LP. This is a major downgrade, but rather typical. The story in nearby Bandar-Abbas is similar: there is no information on where the inter-city bus station is located, and no notation on the map as to where it might be... even though the 2008 edition clearly showed this information. Arriving at a bus station at 6 in the morning and having no idea where the station is relative to the rest of the city is not fun, but it's especially frustrating when you later discover having the previous edition of the guidebook would have solved this problem. These examples are quite typical, and the removal of such important information is difficult to justify.
In other instances, the information just completely misses the mark. An example of this would be the walking tour in Yazd. While it seems like a great idea, the map and the locations marked are not accurate, and actually trying to follow the walking directions or route will lead to frustration as things are not where they are claimed.
A significant part of the problem is that there has been a major change in authors between the two versions: Mark Elliot was responsible for the chapters on Western and Northeastern Iran in 2008, and Andrew Burke covered the rest; in the 2012 version Mark Elliot is out, and new authors Virginia Maxwell (Central Iran and the Persian Gulf) and Iain Shearer (Western and Northeastern Iran) have taken over all coverage outside of Tehran and Southeastern Iran. This has led to not only a dip in quantity, but also a dip in quality: much of the 'new' content appears to be little more than regurgitations of tours offered by local tour agencies. This is unfortunate, but probably an unavoidable trend in guidebook writing. The decrease in quality is so severe that even a Iranian hotelier who is prominently featured in LP--and is thanked in the credit--wholeheartedly agreed that the previous edition was superior. Apparently the coordinating author (Mr. Burke) wasn't able to spend more than a few weeks in the country for this edition, and the contributing authors were essentially parachuted in to provide quick coverage of the country. While this explains the shoddy coverage and the tendency for the book to mimic tours that local agencies and guesthouses offer, it is pretty dreadful.
It is also quite interesting that despite the author change, much of the text remains word-for-word identical to the 2008 text, even in the sections that supposedly have completely different authors and/or were previously penned by Mark Elliot. I'm not sure how it possible, either morally or legally, for the exact same text to be attributed to two different people, but apparently that is what LP would have us believe.
------------COSTS, PRICES, AND DEVALUATION OF THE RIAL----------------
As others have noted, the Rial has crashed in the aftermath of Western sanctions, resulting in prices being around one-third of what they used to be. This makes the Lonely Planet prices way out of whack, as they decided to price everything in US dollars and not Rials in this edition (they made this decision because US dollar pricing was seen as less susceptible to inflation, which typically was 20% or more per year). So in order to figure out what things should cost, you have to convert from LP's US-dollar prices to Rials using the exchange rate LP uses, and then maybe add a little bit for inflation. The net result is that things cost about one-third as many US dollars as LP quotes. Unfortunately, a few unscrupulous businessmen (I'm looking at you, Vali) have decided to use LP's US-dollar pricing, which means that they charge about three times what they used to charge before the devaluation (e.g., the LP quotes $10, which used to be maybe 120,000 Rials, but now they charge 360,000 rials, which is still $10). Anyway, things should be much cheaper than they appear in LP. If they are the same price as LP lists, then you are almost certainly being taken advantage of.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Be careful
By Xu Nuo
I have just come back from my two weeks trip in IRAN. This is the worst lonely planet I have used, and I cannot refrain from making some complaints. This book is abusing the legacy of lonely planet.
- Too much mistaken information. I have encountered a dozen of mistakes during my short trip. For example, this book said Tochal telecabin closed on Mondays, but actually it is Sundays; it said Vank cathedral closed on Friday mornings, but it is Friday afternoons; it said Shiraz to Kerman took 12 hours bus, but it is 8 hours. Indeed, Iran is a changing country for travelers, such as in tickets price, but I checked with local people, many points in this guide have been wrong since 2011.
- There are minor mistakes in editing and grammar, which I have not seen in any other lonely planet guides before. For example, on the same page, Khomeini has two different dates of death: 3 June and 4 June. Much information is only copied and pasted from earlier version, but has not been kept consistent with the latest update.
- USD labeling simply inflates the price of everything. Despite IRR depreciation, many hotels recommended by this guide use the USD price consistent with this book, while inflation in Iran has not been so significant. You can find many low key accommodations and restaurants at much lower price, as long as they are not recommended by lonely planet.
- Its country insight and background information are very fluffy. It does not look into the reality of Iran and somehow worsen the misunderstanding. Neither have I found any interesting articles and columns as I have found in other lonely country guides. I think Wikipedia and wikitravel work much better.
If you are making a trip in Iran, I hope you can exercise some caution in using this book. Also, Iranians are among the most friendly on earth, if you need more accurate information, check with the locals.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Good hints, bad maps
By HansBlog
Where does the bazaari take lunch? Where do the locals buy ice cream and rice cream (bastani and faludeh)? What's the best time of day to see the stained-glass windows at the mosque? These and thousands of other questions are reliably answered in the Lonely Planet Iran. The book opens up the country to the independent traveler and helps enormously in exploring Iran without tour groups or guides. It has good hints for visa extensions, means of transport, and I also liked the suggestions for hotels and restaurants. For these parts the book easily earns five stars, especially as the Bradt Guide, by comparison, disappoints thoroughly. But the Lonely Planets gathers weak points as well:
The new 2012 graphic design in the introductory part looks more magazine-like, more colourful - and certainly less organized. The newly designed city maps are a desaster: Earlier Lonely Planet guides had city maps that gave you easy orientation in any city you arrived; the new maps remind of conductor paths drawn with a trembling hand; you can't even guess the exact location of hotels or sights. The map for Yazd is unusable, for instance, but other maps aren't much better. Nobody at the publisher ever considered the re-designed maps with a practical traveler's eye. I suggest using offline maps in your mobile phone or using the online maps service by Iranian mobile phone companies - and you'll never get lost again, not even when stumbling out of the Bazar-e Bozorg at a gate you've never seen before.
Very unusual: Because of the Iranian currency's drastic decline, most prices in the country are considerably lower than quoted in the guide book. At least for Central Iran the authors describe public transport with high detail (" three blocks with the shared taxi, then three blocks walking in northern direction, then at the gas station...") - but if you earn your money outside of Iran, a privately chartered taxi "dar baste" is now almost as cheap as a shared taxi used to be.
The "Farsi" language guide from the same publisher is a good, but not flawless, companion to the guide book.
UPDATE:
In May 2014, i went for another tourist trip to Iran, this time to other regions. I still had to use the 2012 LP, because an update is only planned for 2016 (but there will be a 2014 LP about Middle East including Iran).
But even in 2014, the 2012 LP guide worked mostly very well, almost no entry was outdated. This time i also successfully used some LP maps (even though i loathe them in my main review above). Some hotels in NW-Iran do get way too much praise from LP though - best to avoid any high expectations.
The previously abysmal Bradt guide has been updated in January 2014, so i took this book to Iran too. But still the Bradt has much less practical information than the LP (especially restaurant and hotel recommendations) and the long, academic paragraphs tired me. It wasn't very helpful for my journey.
Curious: In NW-Iran, the LP shows a wrong phone number for a hotel, that's very rare. But when i called that phone number, i reached a perfectly anglophone Iranian who swiftly provided me with the correct number - it was some of the most efficient communication i'd had in Iran, and i didn't have to drink tea first.
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