Lonely Planet Kenya (Country Travel Guide) [Paperback]

Matthew Firestone (Author), Stuart Butler (Author), Paula Hardy (Author), Adam Karlin (Author)

Book Description

Series: Country Travel Guide | Publication Date: May 1, 2009

Experience the best of Kenya with Lonely Planet. With our 7th edition you'll soar over the Masai Mara in a dawn balloon ride, track the Big Five on a wildlife safari, hike the heights of Mt Kenya, and sip a Tusker beer while sailing on a dhow at sunset.

Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.

In This Guide:

Color wildlife chapter written by a natural-history expert
Interviews with locals give you the inside scoop
Unique Green Index with listings for an ecofriendly trip

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Product Details

• Paperback: 392 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet; 7 edition (May 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1741047730
• ISBN-13: 978-1741047738
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #20 in Books > Travel > Africa > Kenya

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76 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent investment for virtually everyone, May 7, 1997

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This review is from: Lonely Planet Kenya (3rd ed) (Paperback)

This book, and its relative, the guide to East Africa, got me (and my husband) comfortably through 8 weeks of travel in East Africa. It was equally useful for the trip where I was a woman traveling alone, and the trip I took with my never-been-to-the-third-world dyed-in-the-wool- American husband. The only travellers who PERHAPS might not benefit from this book are people on top-shelf tours that ensure that the travellers' feet never really touch the ground. But I truly think that everyone else will find it well worth the few dollars and the few ounces in their luggage, whether that luggage is a matched leather set or a backpack. the history, the explanations of local occurrences, the accurate and pragmatic tips and techniques for getting around/eating/shopping/sleeping/safari-ing/living are difficult to survive without

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is THE travel guide for Kenya, July 23, 2000

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Jeanne Ukwendu "BellaOnline.com African Cultu... (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Kenya (Lonely Planet Kenya, 4th ed) (Paperback)

I was simply stunned by the number of detailed maps in this book. The amount of information for each region of Kenya is outstanding and well done. If you need to know it - it's in this book. Hotels, restaurants, parks, reserves, tribes, Swahili it's all here. Very nicely organized.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, but not the best out there., July 6, 2007

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Jennifer Baxter (Philadelphia, Pa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Kenya (Country Guide) (Paperback)

This book was somewhat helpful when I recently spent two months in Kenya, but I found that some of the information was out of date (despite this being an updated edition) and there were many things that should have been mentioned that were not. Although it gives a great overview, for those who are going to be spending a substantial amount of time in Kenya, I would probably opt for the Rough Guide to Kenya, which was more thorough and much more accurate.