Robert Storey (1)

This guide is actually offensive, ethnocentric, and racist. Very disappointed in Lonely Planet and myself for shelling out 1000NT for this rag.

I travelled around Java in about 2006 and found "Lonely Planet Indonesia" rather helpful. I checked out Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Java Man, Borobudur and Prambanan, and although I did get bitten on the scrotum by a Javanese fire ant, which hurt like all buggery, I can’t really blame this guidebook or Lonely Planet for that.

I miss the hardcopy travel guides (my partner has an irrational hatred for them) but I pledge to buy one for my next trip.

Great guidebook. Really keeps the reader informed of great places to see.

I have a 1980 edition