What are the Colombia travel guidebooks available and what's the best one? Here's some reviews of various options.
The Best Guidebook, but it's in Spanish
The best, and most up to date guidebook is called Guias de Rutas Turisticas de Colombia. It's updated annually, is all in Spanish, has excellent maps and destination guides and can be picked up from most bookshops and also various supermarkets and highway tolls.
Footprint
The footprint guidebooks are invariably excellent, with accurate, well researched travel information and easy to read lay out. Better still is that Footprint has just relased a 2008 edition of the Colombia guide - this is the best all round English language Colombia guidebook.
Bradt
Bradt is a great alternative guidebook series. Generally speaking, information in the Bradt guidebooks is not as comprehensive as that of Footprint, but it's an excellent alternative source of information. Bradt has also just released a 2008 edition of their Colombia guide.
Lonely Planet
Colombia's Lonely Planet should be used with caution - prices are extremely out of date, large sections are completely missing and it came to light in 2008 that one of the writers of the Colombia Lonely Planet had never even been to Colombia.
Other popular travel guidebook series such as Rough Guides, Frommers and Fodors do not currently have a Colombia edition. No doubt that will be changing very soon.
