These days, you can get almost all the information you need from the Internet. So would you why waste space carry a great leader if you are a backpacker South America? First of all, a guide is great resource, even before travel to have! Use it to plan your trip and keep it on your Nightboard to keep you motivated while you save money for your adventures. Secondly the leader is always a great backup in situations where Internet or other resources. How much should you pay for a taxi from the airport to the city? Where is there a hostel in this God leave town, where the only English-speaking person in miles area I? It is always a good thing, a guide as a backup, have, although you may use it every day!
It is loads on loads of guides for backpacking in South America. Some cover the entire continent, others to cover only countries, cities and Islands in detail. What kind of book you should buy depends on how your trip is arranged. Plan to stay in a country? Or only one city? Or are you planning to do the whole caboodle? If you plan to do a great trip for more than one country. I would advise you to bring guide covers everything a "Bible". Too many books carry takes up to correspond to bring space and a heavy load on your back. There are mainly three guides that are recognized as South America Bibles backpack.
Lonely Planet - South America on a shoestring:
South America on a shoestring is definitely the most popular book in South America, and also the book that is as 'the Bible'. The book covers the entire South America with information on everything from major attractions, restaurants in a small outback town. Lonely Planet are books known to be very good on accommodation, restaurants, things to do, and so on. Disadvantages are that calls the book a bit dry with only text and images and the historical and details on locations can be a bit thin. Yet this is one of the better books on South America, and the book that you'll see that the majority of people are carrying around.
Rough guide to South America on a budget:
The rough guides are the new updated version of Lonely Planet. While the focus of the Lonely Planet to pure quality information are rough guides harder on legibility and visual pleasure. The positive sides with RG is the todo lists countries, inspiring images and well detailed historical and guide information to places. Negatives are lack some on the resource side. Many of deals seem obsolete could be, and hostels/restaurants closed or moved. Rough guides are a very good book for those Visual reading enjoyment and good background and historical information to prefer.
Footprint South America Guide:
Footprint is the old dog in this competition. Back in the 70's; Footprint all travel guide were topping lists. After a few years in the dark are now struggling to regain top dog your position. And the new 2010 Edition is certainly a new good breeze but it has a few important bugs. Footprints new book is heavy on good detailed information about all important places and in many cases it covers also the smaller cities in much higher resolution then the other two. Footprints major drawbacks are some mistakes that should have fixed before the release. Many of the cards are incorrect, and some of the basic resource sections are out of date. You have done a good job fixing up many of the mistakes in the new edition of 2010. This book is in many cases better than some defects on maps and locations, which has the other two, in particular to information about places and sights, but the book for this book, top notch again need to be addressed.
If you pick out the book that best suits you, you should really what you the book for use. Plan, only there as a resource for restaurants, hostels and directions use? Or would like information about cities to read countries and so on. Rentable you forth, what you want, and choose the manual, which fits you best. And finally, if you plan in the near future you can backpack of South America, never buy your guide early enough. Once you buy it, you are closer to your dream of walking South America a step!
Ben is an avid backpacker and freelance travel writer who wrote this article for backpack South America after spending 3 month backpacking in South America adventure.
You can also more find Ben's article on his personal travel blog: VagaBen
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