Covers every corner from the Cape winelands to the peaks of the Drakenberg and Kruger National Park. Looks at South African music, art and culture and at the smaller indigenous groups. There is separate coverage of Lesotho and Swasiland and accommodation options for mid-range travellers.
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This review is from: South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland (Lonely Planet South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland) (Paperback)
I used the 3rd edition of this guide on my first trip to South Africa in 1999. Back then, this guide would recommend places to stay in the most dangerous streets of Jo'burg, and guarantee the readers that the area was even safe to walk around at night. A taxi driver in Jo'burg told us he was appalled at their reccommendations on where to stay and where to go out, saying they were simply too dangerous, especially for white backpackers. The guide also had an aggressive attitude towards any predominantly white bars or clubs dismissing them as "artificial"... as if the only option was to go out in Shebeens.Racial issues apart, they seem to be reversing this trend, and have been doing constant progress. This edition recommends mostly well-located places and acknowledges that some areas are just too dangerous to stay in. Otherwise neglected entertainment areas are being put into this guide too. But the issue is that this guide is mostly useful in planning your trip, by telling how to get from one city to another, and what are the costs like, etc. It is also more useful in smaller towns than the larger ones. The fact is that there isn't a 100% reliable guide to South Africa, but this update is about as good as it can get.
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This review is from: Lonely Planet South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland (Paperback)
I bought this exact lonely planet guide for a friend a year ago and now I need it myself, it's great! It's very practical, it allows you to be prepared, it's easy to read and it makes travel so much easier. (I'm hooked; each time I travel I get the lonely planet guide for where I'm travelling to first).
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Just like the rest of the Lonely Planet tour guide books - it's awesome! Everything is the same in this book as the others, except it's about South Africa. So, if you liked their other tour guide books, as I do very much, you'll like this one too. Check it out!
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The current national boundaries in Southern Africa are predominantly the creation of competitive European imperialist powers in the 19th and 20th centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minibus taxi rank, municipal caravan park, sponsored cottages, nonshared taxis, swazi candles, eastern lowveld, braai area, many antelope species, braai facilities, minibus taxis, township tours, downhill adventures, publicity association, cottages that sleep, bush lodge, bunny chow, bungalows cost, dorm beds, takeaway places, wildlife drives, township music, four people cost, transfrontier park, cultural precinct, few rand Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Free State, East London, City Bowl, Garden Route, Eastern Cape, Southern Africa, Western Cape, Kruger National Park, Nelson Mandela, Baz Bus, Table Mountain, Ezulwini Valley, Louis Trichardt, Cape Dutch, First National Bank, Sun City, Mossel Bay, Standard Bank, Northern Cape, Northern Province, Plettenberg Bay, Anglo-Boer War New!
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The current national boundaries in Southern Africa are predominantly the creation of competitive European imperialist powers in the 19th and 20th centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minibus taxi rank, municipal caravan park, sponsored cottages, nonshared taxis, swazi candles, eastern lowveld, braai area, many antelope species, braai facilities, minibus taxis, township tours, downhill adventures, publicity association, cottages that sleep, bush lodge, bunny chow, bungalows cost, dorm beds, takeaway places, wildlife drives, township music, four people cost, transfrontier park, cultural precinct, few rand Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Free State, East London, City Bowl, Garden Route, Eastern Cape, Southern Africa, Western Cape, Kruger National Park, Nelson Mandela, Baz Bus, Table Mountain, Ezulwini Valley, Louis Trichardt, Cape Dutch, First National Bank, Sun City, Mossel Bay, Standard Bank, Northern Cape, Northern Province, Plettenberg Bay, Anglo-Boer War New!
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- Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela on page 31, and page 48
- Best Walks in the Cape Peninsula by Mike Lundy on page 140, and page 152
- Election '99 South Africa: From Mandela to Mbeki by Andrew S. Reynolds on page 48
- New York City (Fleximaps) by American Map Corporation in Back Matter
- Signs of the Wild by Clive Walker on page 48
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