Title: So out of touch with actual Brazilian people its pathetic.
Product review: I was sorely dissappointed with this Lonely Planet title. I look to LP books to take me off the beaten path, and away from over priced hotels and glitzy tourist traps. So if that's not you then, this book is great if you want to be a typical tourist and go to Rio and hang out in Bahia and go to Iguasu and spend horrendous amounts of money on your vacation. However, if you want to blend in and maybe even expatriate, then as the title said, this book is so completely out of touch with the Brazilian people, it's pathetic.The prices are all in USD, which doesn't make sense, because everything is changing, especially the exchange rates. The coverage of Sao Paulo was pathetically small, maybe 30 pages for the second largest city in the world, hardly enough.In short, if you are backpacker, leave this 400 page tome at home in favor of another, lighter and more appropriate book that you pick up in the region you are planning to hang about in.
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