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I'm leaving for Antigua, Guatemala on 22nd of April, after which I'll go to a few countries in south america. I'd like to get travel guides to each country but I don't want to carry them all from the beginning. Is it possible to buy used/new travel guides while on the way, before or after I enter the respective country.

By the way, if you are currently in Antigua, Guatemala and want to sell your travel guides on Ecuador, I'd like to buy them when I get there on Tuesday.

Also if anyone is in Antigua during next two weeks, I'd love to meet you. PM me.

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Antiqua has a bookstore which has used Travel books for a high but not budgetkilling price, especially if you don't want to carry four books around.

But why don't you just carry one? Footprints South America, or if you can Central and South America. I swear by footprints for THAT area of the world, though LP is best for asia, I hear.

Footprints SA has as much inforation about every country you ight want to visit as LP has in their individual guides, and I am NOT joking. I've compared them. The only thing you'll be missing are the best maps and paragraphs of useless prose. Footprintgs is quite well, short in its descriptions. When it says a view is worth seeing, LP will give two paragraphs praising it. two words vs two paragraphs. Thats why they can fit the entire continent into one volume.

The used book store T-T refers to is probably Rainbow Reading Room. Their travel books turn over very rapidly, but they would be a good starting point. They may even have the Footprints books he mentions.

There are several book stores that have a very large selection of new travel books for almost any country you can name and by almost all the well known publishers, but they are probably even more expensive than what you would pay in the U.S.

I've seen second hand travel guides while I was in belize and honduras. I saw some at internet cafes and coffee shops with large book collections. If you don't see them, just ask around because they are bound to be there somewhere