Product Description

Your holiday starts the moment you open the guide … "The best guide available. Packed to the brim with colour photos, maps and essential information." Amazon Reader review. The area of Dordogne, Bordeaux and the Southwest Coast is a rich tapestry of diverse landscapes. Peppered with bastide towns and vineyards, each département in the region has retained its own distinctive heritage to inspire the visitor. The quality of the wine produced here adds to the allure, along with the full calendar of sporting events for which the region is renowned. This fully-updated and expanded Eyewitness Travel Guide to Dordogne, Bordeaux and the Southwest Coast shows you everything that the area has to offer, guiding you from the sandy beaches of the Landes coast to the majestic peaks of the Pyrenees. Full-colour maps, city plans, thematic tours and walks enable you to explore the region in depth and 3D cutaways and models of all the major sights ensure you won’t miss a thing. Whether you are visiting medieval Sarlat or the famous Padriac Chasm, or sampling fine wine in Bordeaux, enjoy the regions charm with the Eyewitness Travel Guide. Winner of the Guardian & Observer ‘Best Guide Books' Award and Wanderlust Magazine Silver Award for 'Top Guidebook'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41975 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Review
'A pleasurable read with ravishing photography plus maps and plans of supreme quality.' The Observer

Customer Reviews

Exploring the Dordoigne and Lot
Being in need of an up-to-date giude of the region I chose this from Amazon who offered a good choice. The Guide proved very useful and was well laid out and easy to use. There were a few discrepancies in opening times and prices but this could be accounted for since the book was published over a year ago.

Pictures Verses text
My wife thought this was brilliant, previously bought the lonely planet guide
but it didn't compete.

Good for first time
As we have never visited the area before, I thought it would be good to have a guide. This is a very nice, visual guide, which does not miss out the main attractions, however it is not detailed enough, if you are looking for a restaurants or crossing smaller villages which might also be interesting.

I think it covers what it promisse and it is attractive to look at, and we had a lovely time but next time around I might go for little more detailed one.