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Many thanks to the travellers who used the last edition and wrote to us with helpful hints, useful advice and interesting anecdotes:
Clive & Sheila Robinson, Jenny & David Thomas, Lelena Pierce, Remo Klinger, Tiago Raimundo
Paul Harding
Thanks to Hannah and Layla for accompanying me to Goa and putting up with my absence while in Kerala. Cheers to Joe for entrusting me with such a great part of India. In India, thanks to all who offered advice and company but especially to all the friends in Goa and Kerala that I met up with again – you all know who you are!
Abigail Blasi
Thank you Joe Bindloss and Sarina Singh, CE and CA supreme, and to my wonderful co-authors. Thanks in Delhi to Sarah Fotheringham, to Nicolas Thompson and Danish Abbas, to Dilliwala Mayank Austen Soofi, to Rajinder and Surinder Budhraja, to Nirinjan and Jyoti Desai, my Delhi family, and to Luca for holding the fort.
Trent Holden
Thanks first up to Joe Bindloss for giving me the opportunity again to work again on India – a seriously dream gig. As well as to my co-authors, especially Sarina for all the help and tips along the way. A shout out to all the good folk I met along the road and shared a beer with. But as always my biggest thanks goes to my beautiful girlfriend Kate, and my family and friends who I all miss back home in Melbourne.
Iain Stewart
It was great to hang with Laksh in Bandra and have a virtual beer with Paul Harding by the sea. Thanks to the good folk at the MTDC all over the state, particularly Mr Shaker and Mrs Singh in Mumbai. I’m also very grateful to Aditya in Nagpur and Tadoba, Maria in Matheran and the merry musicians of Kolhapur.
Climate map data adapted from Peel MC, Finlayson BL & McMahon TA (2007) ‘Updated World Map of the Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification’, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11, 163344.
Cover photograph:Anjuna Beach, Goa/Kimberley Coole/Getty
This 7th edition of Lonely Planet’s Goa & Mumbai guidebook was researched and written by Paul Harding, Abigail Blasi, Trent Holden and Iain Stewart. This guidebook was produced by the following:
Destination Editor Joe Bindloss
Product Editors Kate Mathews, Alison Ridgway
Book Designer Clara Monitto
Assisting Book Designer Clara Monitto
Assisting Editors Imogen Bannister, Kate Chapman, Kate Evans, Samantha Forge, Paul Harding, Gabrielle Innes, Katie O’Connell, Lauren O’Connell, Kathryn Rowan, Saralinda Turner
Cover Researcher Naomi Parker
Thanks to Lonely Planet Cartography, Ellie Simpson
Ebook thanks to Andrew Bigger, Ruth Cosgrove, Julie Dodkins, Liz Heynes, Craig Kilburn, Chris Love, Wayne Murphy, Jacqui Saunders, John Taufa, Glenn van der Knijff, Juan Winata.