Travelling cheaply?—
p. 91 · Read in the full issue
this is a Bible
Outside of dirty postcards there’s only one book that rates a “psssst!” from a dark alley way from a furtive Arab in the middle of Persia. That’s the Golden Guide to South and East Asia, easily the most popular and highly-regarded travel guide around for those wishing to go overland to Europe on the cheap.
Even the most hardened hitch hikers find room for this item in a rucksack which otherwise carries the bare essentials. I was always surprised when I saw bums leafing through dirty pages of this bright, red paper-back in every out of the way place I visited—until I read it.
PIM is not usually given to praising travel-books unless they are of real use. But the Golden Guide is the bible of travellers wishing to go the cheap way but seeing everything there is to see.
If it’s mountain climbing in Nepal, bathing in the Ganges, cycling round the Ankor Wat, crossing the Hindu-Kush, hitch hiking down the Khyber Pass— this is the book to help you do it.—JSE.
(Golden Guide To South And
EAST ASIA, Paul Flesch, Melbourne, $3.50).