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The go-to Italian Lakes travel guide for discovering the best walks and car tours.
Strap on your boots and discover the Italian Lakes on foot with the Sunflower Italian Lakes travel guide. And on the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our legendary car tours.
The Sunflower Italian Lakes guide is indispensable for hiking in the Italian Lakes or seeing the lakes by car. These great expanses of water, bound to the north by high mountains and stretching down towards the Lombardy Plain, all resulted from glacial activity. While this guide focuses primarily on walking the Italian Lakes, you can gain huge satisfaction from touring the Italian Lakes by car as well. Whether on foot or by car, you will discover timeless hill villages, ancient mule tracks and panoramic mountain viewpoints.
Area covered: While the term 'Italian Lakes' generally refers to Lake Maggiore, Lake Lugano, Lake Como and Lake Garda, there are many other, smaller lakes, some of which are included in this guide book.
Whatever your age or ability we've got some glorious walks and car tours to ensure you have a memorable trip to the Italian Lakes.
Inside the Sunflower Italian Lakesguide book you'll find:
* 75 long and short walks for all ages and abilities - each walk is graded so you can easily match your ability to the level of walk
* Topographical walking maps - give you a clear sense of the surrounding terrain with a scale of 1:50 000
* Free downloadable gps tracks - for the techies
* Satnav guidance to walk starts for motorists
* 5 car tours and fold-out touring map - for easy reference on your tour
* Strolls to idyllic picnic spots - enjoy our recommendations for where to picnic along the way
* Timetables for public transport - ideal if you want to link two walks or avoid hiring a car on your holiday
* Online update service for the latest information
Whether you tour the region by car or explore on foot, we look forward to showing you around.
Strap on your boots and discover the Italian Lakes on foot with the Sunflower Italian Lakes travel guide. And on the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our legendary car tours.
The Sunflower Italian Lakes guide is indispensable for hiking in the Italian Lakes or seeing the lakes by car. These great expanses of water, bound to the north by high mountains and stretching down towards the Lombardy Plain, all resulted from glacial activity. While this guide focuses primarily on walking the Italian Lakes, you can gain huge satisfaction from touring the Italian Lakes by car as well. Whether on foot or by car, you will discover timeless hill villages, ancient mule tracks and panoramic mountain viewpoints.
Area covered: While the term 'Italian Lakes' generally refers to Lake Maggiore, Lake Lugano, Lake Como and Lake Garda, there are many other, smaller lakes, some of which are included in this guide book.
Whatever your age or ability we've got some glorious walks and car tours to ensure you have a memorable trip to the Italian Lakes.
Inside the Sunflower Italian Lakesguide book you'll find:
* 75 long and short walks for all ages and abilities - each walk is graded so you can easily match your ability to the level of walk
* Topographical walking maps - give you a clear sense of the surrounding terrain with a scale of 1:50 000
* Free downloadable gps tracks - for the techies
* Satnav guidance to walk starts for motorists
* 5 car tours and fold-out touring map - for easy reference on your tour
* Strolls to idyllic picnic spots - enjoy our recommendations for where to picnic along the way
* Timetables for public transport - ideal if you want to link two walks or avoid hiring a car on your holiday
* Online update service for the latest information
Whether you tour the region by car or explore on foot, we look forward to showing you around.
'Small is beautiful' certainly applies to Slovenia, which is only half the size of Switzerland. With a population of just two million, the landscape is still essentially rural. Amongst these industrious people one senses an orderly contentment and a feeling that everything is in tune with nature. Tour Slovenia by car or on foot; the opportunities are endless------------------------ The jagged snow-capped peaks of the Julian Alps contrast with fertile valleys, full of colour and activity. Porous limestone rock has created the karst landscape; typical features can be seen everywhere and are exciting to explore - from underground rivers emerging as cascading waterfalls to narrow gorges, caves and rock arches. The mountain valleys are immaculate, with strips of vegetables and corn amidst the hayfields and orchards. There are hop-growing areas and beautiful vineyards.---------------- This guide covers the entire country except for the very northeast and southeast; however, there is an emphasis on the Julian Alps.-
---------------- 6 car tours (with accompanying touring map and larger-scale map of the Julian Alps), 60 long and short walks (illustrated with 1:50,000 topo maps), 25 picnic suggestions. Free online update service with specific route change information on the publisher's website, maintained daily.------------------ The 'Landscapes' series, with 50 destinations, has been dubbed 'the blue Bibles' by the Sunday Times and led to Sunflower being one of only four publishers (from a field of 18) chosen as a Which? Recommended Provider of Guidebooks.------------- THE guide to Slovenia's beauty. The book was easy to use, providing us with all the detail needed to plan where to go in Slovenia - from simple short walks/drives to more adventurous challenges along more strenuous routes. We had to decide on the trips that we would hope to complete as part of our 2 week holiday. We could not have chosen a better publication to guide us in those choices. The book was simply the best investment which we made in preparation for what was a memorable trip. --(GTK, Amazon)-------------- Amazingly accurate. This book was invaluable on our recent holiday to Slovenia.
We only did the walks in the area we were staying but they were described in such detail that you couldn't go wrong. --(DEG, Amazon)
---------------- 6 car tours (with accompanying touring map and larger-scale map of the Julian Alps), 60 long and short walks (illustrated with 1:50,000 topo maps), 25 picnic suggestions. Free online update service with specific route change information on the publisher's website, maintained daily.------------------ The 'Landscapes' series, with 50 destinations, has been dubbed 'the blue Bibles' by the Sunday Times and led to Sunflower being one of only four publishers (from a field of 18) chosen as a Which? Recommended Provider of Guidebooks.------------- THE guide to Slovenia's beauty. The book was easy to use, providing us with all the detail needed to plan where to go in Slovenia - from simple short walks/drives to more adventurous challenges along more strenuous routes. We had to decide on the trips that we would hope to complete as part of our 2 week holiday. We could not have chosen a better publication to guide us in those choices. The book was simply the best investment which we made in preparation for what was a memorable trip. --(GTK, Amazon)-------------- Amazingly accurate. This book was invaluable on our recent holiday to Slovenia.
We only did the walks in the area we were staying but they were described in such detail that you couldn't go wrong. --(DEG, Amazon)