good one, same experience !!! :-))))))))))))

more and more people are travelling, so LP and others adapt. it s a business, market shares, etc ...

they try to please the average traveller or most of the travellers and maybe "we" or some of us are / think they are not the average traveller and don t belong to their target ... that s all.

as people said before you should not maybe take the guidebook as a bible ...

I did backpacking before riding and for sure LP and others are more usefull when backpacking.
i m quite happy with LP, some stuff are wrong sometimes, but like others, like me also !
they update their guides every 2 years for main countries. pakistan or central asia every 4-5 years. no tourist = no business for them (?)

in france, we have "guide du routard" guidebooks, they are also much criticized.

it depends what you expect from a guidebook. if you take everything for granted or if after a while you get more and more away from it.

making a guidebook is not easy at all !!! everyone is travelling different and that s the richness of travelling. including ewan mc gregor.

giving trip advice also, even here, is not easy. i ve tried also on my website (Informations pratiques pour les autres voyageurs) during my trip but i m sure some people won t be ok. + things change.

maybe everyone is ok to say that LP went down.
well the authors are paid for that, it s their job i agree. but i ve heard that most of them are free lance and not paid much.

MY QUESTION would be : WHICH GUIDEBOOKS DO YOU RECOMMEND THEN ???

some guidebooks are also better for this or this region? Some guidebooks don t cover the 5 continents, ...
i ve heard that "let's go" guidebooks are doing better and better

happy trails

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