Bangladesh (Bradt Travel Guides)

Incredibly impressed as I was so dissapointed with the lonely planet guide to Bangladesh! This guide however, gets a massive thumbs up !!!!

Just what I wanted

I travelled around Bangladesh with this guidebook in November 2012, just after it had been published. I found it useful and from what I heard it's considerably better than the Lonely Planet (although I can't speak for the new edition which has just come out). The advice was generally good although in Bangladesh things change fast, don't discount a hotel because it doesn't feature in the book. Newer is better!

More or less the only guide available and two or three years old. Maps for Dhaka very user unfriendly, especially the one for Gulshan which is printed with a horizontal North South orientation and splits between pages at crucial point. Very idiosyncratic on what it chooses to highlight. Not good on art but good on restaurants.1⃣↖️

Well-written, useful and informative guide

Der Reisführer ist wie die anderen Führer von Bradt sehr gut, detailiert und aktuell. Ich habe aus der gleichen Reise auch den Führer Malawi.

As other reviewers have noted over the last couple of years when it comes to Bangladesh the Bradt guides are superior to the Lonely Planet series (and I say that as someone who tends to buy LP books). Having owned the previous edition of this guidebook I can tell you that a lot of the information is essentially the same but there have also been a range of updates - as one would hope to see. The book itself would be highly useful to expats as well as tourists and sections of it are certainly aimed at those who for whatever reason are going to be spending a lot of time in Bangladesh. The format is fairly standard - there are history and culture sections up front and there are all the hum-drum bits of information you'll need like money and ATM issues. The body of the work itself is organised in regions, a lot of time is spent on the transport side of things, accommodation in different places is also discussed in depth and obviously a lot of time was spent actually getting out there into these towns and finding out what there was to do there. You can feel the time taken to research this book seeping out of the text. I've no idea if putting out a guide book to Bangladesh is a financially viable prospect for any of the various competing guidebook publishing houses. But this seems to be a well researched one, so I hope they make their money back on it and that it encourages them to keep up the good work.

I bought this before a two-month trip to Bangladesh. The guide is written mostly for those who will be spending a fair amount of time here (like expats), but it goes into great depth with the history, culture, and the sights. The information is up to date, and it's great having an idea of things before diving into this chaotic country. Of the two guides I have, this is definitely the best!

too much information in the book, but would be helpful if you want to experience hands on travel. I wish it had more pictures. And now there are more resorts for tourists, this book needs to update itself with the new information, but this one is so far the best one to travel Bangladesh.

Recht umfangreicher Reiseführer. Kleines Format. Mit sehr vielen guten Tips. Auch die Stadtpläne sind hilfreich. Leider nur in Englisch zu kaufen