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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful: By This review is from: Let's Go Israel: The Student Travel Guide (Paperback) I definitely regret buying this travel guide for my trip to Israel. The most frustrating and glaring problem I found is that it DOES NOT CONTAIN A MAP OF ISRAEL. I was pretty aghast when I found this elementary feature lacking. There are maps of each region of the country in its respective section of the book, and there are a few small mostly blank Israel maps used to demonstrate suggested itineraries, but there is no one map of Israel with cities and roads marked. Awful, egregious. Also, in one of the mostly blank maps of possible itineraries, Petra is depicted RIGHT NEXT TO JERUSALEM. Are you kidding me? These people cannot be serious. Petra is in Jordan, at least 150 km from Jerusalem as the crow flies. What an absolutely embarrassing map. The book is also rife with misspellings and incorrect grammar, and certain passages were copied verbatim in multiple places. It's written by Harvard students who want you to know they're Harvard students, so it reads like one big...Read more 5 of 9 people found the following review helpful: Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Let's Go Israel: The Student Travel Guide (Paperback) This is the best travel book I have ever seen. No pictures is why I usually avoid this kind, but I needed details and this had it. Amazing. I would buy a "Let's Go" for any country I would be visiting. 3 of 6 people found the following review helpful: By Halo Faire (Canada) - See all my reviews This review is from: Let's Go Israel: The Student Travel Guide (Paperback) I just used this guidebook for my visit to Israel and the territories recently (March 2010) and whilst it does provide a good general overview and gives some excellent "travel" advice in parts . It does read as very secular and in some areas it's guidance is not really thought out. I'd thought it would have made sense; particularly as the guide is subtitled "The Holy Land" for it to be more focused on Israel's "faith" sites and special "cultural" locations. But "Let's Go Israel" devotes a lot of its limited space to discussing Tel-Aviv's night clubs scene as it does for it's places of worship. Don't get me wrong it does have some info about the various mosques, synagogues etc. In my mind however, it's weird to give equal priority to describe gay/lesbian venues in Jerusalem as it is to also see the most "revered" sites in the "Holy" City. Many therefore potentially important religious or significant cultural places are...Read more |