Kyoto in the Shortlist Guide series from Time Out; exploring a range of international destinations in a handy, pocket-sized format designed to introduce visitors to the best nightlife, entertainment & local attractions in the city. Expert local writers provide an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city, ensuring that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy & reliability. Each guide opens with a ...

Kyoto in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Kyoto in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Kyoto in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider`s checklist of all you need to know about the world`s most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we`ve done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars & hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores & sites, & the most enticing architecture & design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city`s landscape & the satisfaction you`ve seen all that you should. In short, these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer. ...

Kyoto, Osaka & Kobe in the Michelin Red Guides series; hotel & restaurant guides that have an unparalleled reputation for reliability & consistency, making extensive use of keyed information to provide detailed & concise reviews. Guides are predominantly intended for the markets they are reviewing &, as such, are more often than not written in the native language (s) of their featured destination, that said, most foreign language guides do come with a range of English language introductory & explanatory information such as thorough details on how to use the guide & a description of its symbol classifications. The obvious exceptions to this structure are locations which already have English as their official language. Guides feature hundreds of hotels and/or restaurants & rate them according to the time honoured Michelin standards. Reviews are arranged alphabetically by location & introduce places & establishments, providing you with details of other relevant Michelin publications, situating the businesses & detailing facilities & services, as well as the all important price range. Establishment descriptions look at the atmosphere, d ...

Deep within central Asia, Kyrgyzstan`s beautiful mountainscapes, dreamlike rock formations & semi-nomadic culture are gloriously unspoiled. A trip here can be as adventurous as you please: admire 5, 000-year-old petroglyphs at Saimaluu-Tash, gallop on horseback through the rugged Ala-Archa Canyon, visit Bishkek`s Soviet-era statues or simply laze on the shores of the vast Lake Issyk-Kul. Now in its third edition, this remains the only English-language guide dedicated solely to Kyrgyzstan. It offers in-depth coverage of historical background, health, safety & transport, plus author recommendations on the best yurt camps & chaikhanas. You can join Laurence Mitchell on a magnificent journey through the country`s remote Silk Road villages, ancient conifer forests & rolling alpine meadows. ...

Following the break-up of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan soon earned a reputation as the most hospitable & least repressive of the newly emerged central Asian republics. Unlike some of its neighbours, it has actively encouraged foreign tourism & has pursued a policy of supporting community projects with an emphasis on adventure tourism. The Bradt guide details all the services & experiences the country offers including trekking, mountaineering, horseriding & wildlife-watching. Historical sites, cultural activities & background on the Kyrgystan people are all covered by this definitive guide. ...

Detailed maps of 3 selected mountainous regions, noted for their appeal to climbers.1:200, 000 map of the Karavshin Valley, near the tangled borders of south-eastern Kyrgyzstan & Tijikistan.1:150, 000 map of the Western Kokshaal-Too, in the Tien Shan range. (Shown in cartography sample below).1:50, 000 map of the Ala-Archa National Park, south of Bishkek. The maps have been compiled from Russian topographic maps, satellite imagery & ground data. Relief is shown by hill-shading, contours & spot heights. Detail

Includes:: passes, peak names, base camps, huts, villages, tracks, roads, borders. Latitude & longitude margin ticks are included, also UTM grid lines on the two larger scale maps. The maps are complemented with information on geography, climbing opportunities & practical advice for visitors.

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Kyrgyzstan at 1:750, 000 from Gizi Map with excellent presentation of the country’s mountainous terrain through bold altitude colouring & plenty of names of mountain ranges, etc, road network indicating routes of the old Silk Road, plus a street plan of Bishkek & an administrative map of the country. All place names are in the Latin alphabet. Topography is vividly shown by bold elevation colouring, with spot heights & graphics for swamps, salt flats & deserts, plus plenty of names of mountain ranges, peaks, valleys, etc. National parks are highlighted. The map shows internal provincial boundaries & also clearly indicates the country’s Uzbek & Tadjik enclaves. Road network

Includes:: selected local tracks & highlights routes which used to the part of the old Silk Road. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Symbols indicate various places of interest, locations with tourist accommodation including yurt camps, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 30’ intervals. The map has on the reverse two separate but cross-referenced indexes, in Latin & Cyrillic script. Map legend

Includes:: English. Two panels provide a street plan of central Bishkek annotated with important buildings, selected hotels & places of interest, plus a small administrative map of the country. This title is also available as a wall map.



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