The perfect gift for men and women: A Travel Guide as a City Map with local Insider Tips in one unique Piece of Art.

A la Carte Maps are a combination of travel guide, city map and piece of art:

The concept is simple: Imagine you had a local friend in exciting cities all over the world. Not only does this friend provide you with the most important information about your city, he or she has also revealed the city’s best-kept insider tips by writing them on a beautiful hand-drawn map.

A la Carte Maps come in a handy format (42x70cm) and can easily be folded to 10x21cm. All maps are made of high-quality material and are additionally matt-laminated which makes them moisture-resistant and durable. This goes “back to the roots” as everyone nowadays focuses on mobile internet/Iphone Applications.

All the maps are designed by talented young artists trying to capture the spirit of the city making each map unique in its appearance: London, Munich, Vienna, Zürich, Barcelona, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Vancouver, Washington, and San Francisco.

Would you like to hang out with some “neighbourhood uncles” in an authentic Singaporean coffeeshop? Where can you find the most beautiful, customized Guayaberas in Miami? Want to go on a “Tour de Chocolate Cake” in Shanghai? How about joining an extraordinary dinner, where 50 strangers from all over the world meet every Sunday in the City of Lights − Paris? No matter what you’re looking for, with A la Carte Maps you will find it.A la Carte Maps aims at „flashpackers“ – backpackers that love to journey in style. Flashpackers don’t backpack because they have to, but because they want to. They don’t have a fixed itinerary, love the uncommon and are not afraid of the unknown. Instead, flashpackers seek an authentic travel experience off the beaten track: Wherever they go, they never go there as “tourists”.Living it. Embracing it like the locals do.