Easy to see why this is a classic. Goes a long way to show the people you meet travelling have been a fixture for a while (The know it all who gets everything wrong, the fortune hunters who would destroy a site or monument just to take a piece home, etc).

Twain has a real knack for describing human interactions and relationships (Even his own), this is where the book excels, his writing when it came to those often had me in stitches, his writing on the actual sites or locations was often severely dry by contrast.

All in all, I would encourage people to read it, it is a classic, but expect some long dry slogs in between those superior wordsmith human condition back and forth's that Twain is just so good at.