What are the Colombia travel guidebooks available and what's the best one? Here's some reviews of various options. See also the page about books to inspire travel to Colombia.
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 2009 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.
Viva Travel Guides
Researched by travellers for travellers - the Viva guidebook is comprehensive and generally accurate. 2009 edition is now available.
Lonely Planet
Colombia's Lonely Planet 2009 edition is a vast improvement on the previous edition, which was utterly hopeless. Useful info indeed - only now can I recommend this LP.
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.
