Written by an expert who has visited the region over 40 times, this guide to East Africa covers Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda and Eritrea. It provides background information, as well as comprehensive listings for all budgets on where to stay, eat and drink. The book features a colour section on wildlife with an animal location chart, and accurate and detailed information on national parks and game reserves. Over 150 boxes contain details on random aspects of life in East Africa, and colour maps help with planning the trip.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent for trip planning,
By SHirsch (Atlanta) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Footprint East Africa Handbook 2000: The Travel Guide (Paperback)
This book has a lot of information. Amazing how many hotel and restaurants are listed, broken down by price. There are even descriptions of what type of food to expect. I love the history inserts throughout the book. I appreciate the author being forthright regarding health, safety and how to respect the local authorities. Well worth the money.
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A Dissenting Opinion,
By T. Williams "world traveller" (Not where I was born, nor where I will die) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Footprint East Africa Handbook 2002: The Travel Guide (7th Edition) (Paperback)
It's not that this book is so bad, it's simply that it isn't worth the superlatives heaped on it by the other reviewers.Although it is nice enough, it simply wasn't practical for bare-knuckle travelling. Having left behind the much more detailed (and therefore more informative) Bradt guides for Uganda, Ethiopia and Zanzibar (yeah, shame on me for being such a fool), I purchased this last minute substitute in an airport enroute. It was a pleasant read, but not very helpful in trying to determined the easiest, cheapest or most enjoyable mode of transport from point A to point B - whether that was from town to town, or from airport to sleeping accomodations. Some of the information was dreastically out-of-date (though that can happen with any guidebook that is not current) and the price informaiton was annoying. I much prefer seeing the prices next to the listing rather than go searching for some cost index table to decode each country's living expenses. The thing I found most objectionable were the difficult-to-manuever maps. The Bradt guides get my thumbs up recommendation. I am not a fan of Lonely Plant, but I have to concede that even their guide is superior to this book in terms of a practical travel aid.
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very helpful and easy to use guide. worth every cent.
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East Africa's great safarilands are centred on the three former British territories of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thorny bushland, banda accommodation, cultural tourism programmes, old boma, thatched bandas, safe parking for cars, marine national reserve, stelae field, luxury tented camp, foreign exchange bureaux, balloon safaris, stone town, forex bureau, walking safaris, boat safaris, colour map, ofthe park, full board accommodation, clove production, beisa oryx, donkey sanctuary, rhino sanctuary, lesser kudu, mangrove poles, wildlife conservancy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Addis Ababa, Guest House, East Africa, Lake Victoria, Fort Portal, Mount Kenya, Haile Selassie, Mount Elgon, Dire Dawa, Lake Turkana, Masai Mara, Dares Salaam, Ethiopian Airlines, Indian Ocean, Mount Kilimanjaro, Bahar Dar, First World War, Red Sea, Safaris Ltd, Debre Birhan, Mount Meru, Tana River, South Africa, Debre Zeit, Lake Tanganyika New!
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East Africa's great safarilands are centred on the three former British territories of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thorny bushland, banda accommodation, cultural tourism programmes, old boma, thatched bandas, safe parking for cars, marine national reserve, stelae field, luxury tented camp, foreign exchange bureaux, balloon safaris, stone town, forex bureau, walking safaris, boat safaris, colour map, ofthe park, full board accommodation, clove production, beisa oryx, donkey sanctuary, rhino sanctuary, lesser kudu, mangrove poles, wildlife conservancy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Addis Ababa, Guest House, East Africa, Lake Victoria, Fort Portal, Mount Kenya, Haile Selassie, Mount Elgon, Dire Dawa, Lake Turkana, Masai Mara, Dares Salaam, Ethiopian Airlines, Indian Ocean, Mount Kilimanjaro, Bahar Dar, First World War, Red Sea, Safaris Ltd, Debre Birhan, Mount Meru, Tana River, South Africa, Debre Zeit, Lake Tanganyika New!
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- The Second World War (Living Through History) by C. A. R. Hills on page 120, page 464, and page 517
- World Food Programme: Report of the Fourteenth Session of the Un/Fao Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programs by United Nations on page 365
- Let's Go: Spain, Portugal and Morocco 1988 by Harvard University on page 318
- Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar (Topics in World History) by Emily Ruete on page 538
- Ethiopia with Love by Thelma Tonkin on page 932
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