#237: new tour book from Lonely Planet: Bell and Corbett comment

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From: madison bell <mbell@goucher.edu>

I looked Daudi's guide up on Amazon and found another one too-- one of the
"Lonely Planet" series.

Must be more tourists there than we thought.  Don't seem to run into them
that much, though....

msb
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Madison sent this post in on Monday and yesterday I happened to receive
the Lonely Planet guide book in the mail.  I am quite impressed by it.
The book is about 5 x7 and rather heavy.  It is at least 2/3 on the
Dominican Republic, butthe Haiti section is the best I've seen in any
of the guides I have in my library and I must have more than 20.

It begins with a very long esssay on Haiti dealing with history, 
current political situation, culture, Voodoo, music and all sorts of
useful information.

The first "guide" material is on Port-au-Prince with a separate section
for Petionville.  There are guides to less expensive places to stay and
eat, most of which I didn't know, so I thought that would be useful
to any traveling to Haiti on a crimped budget.

Only two "out" cities are treated, Jamel and Cap Haitien, but they
are done quite well, with a long section on OKap that includes the
Citadel and Sans Souci.

All in all I think many of you might want this guide to enrich your own
trip to Haiti, even if you're a native!

Bob Corbett