Customer Reviews

Kruger National Park Travel Pack (Globetrotter Travel Packs)

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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.

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.

A great resource for Kruger National Park. Has a great map as well!

I would recommend this book.

The book was fairly useful. It gave good descriptions of areas and noted places to see or drives to do. The large map was extremely useful for planning out the route on my trip. You will still need to do plenty of additional research online at the SANS park website to understand the lodging options etc.. but this book was a good starting point.

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.