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buddy bradley
Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The Beyond
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 Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:08 am Post subject: Lonely Planet Updates Its Worldguide |
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And it's still filled with lies:
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A city of astonishing contrasts, a huge metropolis where opulent wealth and desperate poverty live side by side: Johannesburg is the intriguing, dynamic heart of this turbulent country. If you want to see the real South Africa - and try to understand it - Jo'burg has to be on your itinerary.
Jo'burg, Jozi, eGoli or 'the city of gold' (never Johannesburg) is by far the largest city in South Africa. It's brash, fast-growing and often ugly, but it's got wealth, energy and a beautiful climate. If you take reasonable precautions and listen to the locals, you can enjoy it in safety.
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Safety? In Joburg? Where I'm too scared to walk two blocks just to rent a DVD, for fear of being shot?
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/africa/south-africa/johannesburg?
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| Johannesburg is the place to take the pulse of the new South Africa. |
The dead have pulses?
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| Poverty, the AIDS pandemic and violence remain a problem. |
You don't say.
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| South Africa is an exhilarating, spectacular and complex country. With its post-apartheid identity still in the process of definition, there is undoubtedly an abundance of energy and sense of progress about the place. |
Added to which, it sucks.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/africa/south-africa
Anyone else hate Lonely Planet? It reminds me of Arirang Nazi Propaganda TV - they'll never tell you the truth, yet it's a so-called "democracy". There's nothing bad happening in Korea - the Norks and South Koreans are making progress! They're collaborating!
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:25 am Post subject: |
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The worst part is their costs section. A meal in country x will set you back anywhere from $1 to $20. Oh thanks, that clears things up.  |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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I would guess over 90% of people who buy a guide book are already going to that country anyway- you don't buy them like holiday brochures to see if you fancy a trip to Country X.
The Stereotypical Dave's Whiner Guide To Korea would probably have 5 chapters
1. Korea (and why it sucks)
2. Korean Men (and why they're all horrible racist scum)
3. Korean Women (and why they're all stuck up princesses)
4. Korean Food (and why it all tastes the same)
5. Working in Korea (and why every boss is Satan's handmaiden)
6. Leaving Korea (and why I never actually do)
Personally, I'd buy the Lonely Planet over that. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| But it would be a really fun project putting together the guidebook you just described... |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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South Korea entry:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/asia/south-korea?
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South Korea
A green outdoors and a sage people.
South Korea is a country swathed in green, prodding its stony fingers skyward, and the Koreans are a people obsessed with nature, and with mountains in particular. Wherever you travel, you'll see Koreans out in the open air, clad in the latest adventure fashions, pushing ever onward and upward.
With China looming to its west and Japan nudging it from the east, it's no wonder the country has played unwilling host to centuries of war games. But no matter how many times its neighbours try to swallow it, South Korea manages to survive intact. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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South Korea entry:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/asia/south-korea?
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South Korea
A green outdoors and a sage people.
South Korea is a country swathed in green, prodding its stony fingers skyward, and the Koreans are a people obsessed with nature, and with mountains in particular. Wherever you travel, you'll see Koreans out in the open air, clad in the latest adventure fashions, pushing ever onward and upward.
With China looming to its west and Japan nudging it from the east, it's no wonder the country has played unwilling host to centuries of war games. But no matter how many times its neighbours try to swallow it, South Korea manages to survive intact. |
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fair enough. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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that guy must have green tinted lenses- fair enough Koreans love to hike there are mountains everywhere, and during the spring the rice paddies are beautiful. Still it's not exactly- well- England is it?
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I_Am_Wrong
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: whatever
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| guess nothing can ever compare to the good old country eh? I spent my holidays all over the Southern part of ok the Peninsula and have to say it was the greenest country I've ever laid my eyes on. |
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