Kruger National Park Travel Pack (Globetrotter Travel Packs) (Paperback)

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Product Description

The highly successful "Globetrotter Travel Series", which includes Travel Guides, Travel Maps, Road Atlases, Best Of Pocket Guides and In Your Pocket Language Guides, presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide. The Packs are excellent value, including both a guidebook and a softcover version of the fold-out Globetrotter map of the region, in a printed plastic wallet.The handy pocket-size guide is packed with useful information, tips and recommendations, accompanied by colour photographs, charts and maps for the first-time traveller who wants to experience the major highlights that the Kruger National Park has to offer. The fold-out map of the Kuger National Park is ideal for tourists and visitors.

From the Back Cover

Practical, informative and user-friendly, this Globetrotter travel pack highlights all the major places of interest, describing their principal attractions and offering sound suggestions on where to tour, stay, eat, shop and relax

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Globetrotter; Other edition (October 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184773247X
• ISBN-13: 978-1847732477
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #141,415 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent planning tool, March 25, 2008

By	M. Vanderhoof - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Kruger National Park Travel Pack (Globetrotter Travel Packs) (Paperback)

This was excatly what we were looking for in planning our visit to Kruger National Park. It gives suggestions for different routes you can travel throughout the various sections of the park and the animals that are prevalent in each area. Since we have limited time in Kruger, this will help us choose which areas to focus on. It has a lot of useful info and is small in size and therefore easy to bring along.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good place to start, June 4, 2009

By	Pamela M. Stine - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This guide includes a good planning map for self-driving through Kruger. It is the same map as the Globetrotter Travel Map - don't buy both. The map is large and could support more detail. The guide has good suggestions for 'best drives' which we will follow next week when we go there. Photographs are also good. I have not felt the need to buy another guide for planning purposes; I will wait until I get there to get a more detailed map.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview of Kruger, February 1, 2008

By	Lee Kingsley (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kruger National Park Travel Pack (Globetrotter Travel Packs) (Paperback)

For the most part, I think this a great book for anyone considering a trip to Kruger National Park in South Africa. It gives some basic information on the park, then lists good places to stay and/or camp, and also lists the best drives to take while you're there. However, without having visited Kruger, I cannot tell you how accurate the map, or the book, is. Also, while it does give a basic history of the park's creation, nothing is mentioned of Paul Kruger- the man after whom the park was named! That seems like a fairly major oversight to me. Also, the attractions are starred with one, two, or three stars, but there's no key or legend that explains what each of these designations actually means. Again, that seems like big oversight, even if it is self-explanatory. However, I would say that it isn't reason enough to pass-up the book. On the whole it's a nice little book. It's concise, well-written, and has a lot of information for the price. I wouldn't, however, rely on this book alone. I would definitely pick out a couple of other books to take along.