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The Rough Guide to Cape Town & the Garden Route 1 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

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I used this guide book during a two week trip to Cape Town, traveling on the garden route to Mossel Bay, and around Montagu and found it to be one of the worst guide books that I've ever used. The organization of the maps in the book was frustrating and I found it very annoying to have to page through the book to find the appropriate map that corresponded to the text I was reading. The book provides minimal information, or leaves out altogether, some towns that I found to be the high points of my trip, e.g. De Kelders and L'Aguilhas. This left me feeling that the authors hadn't visited these towns or carried out thorough research. Consequently the book is heavy on towns that are larger and rampant tourist destinations, e.g. Hermanus. My advice is to find another book to buy or rely on the internet for more up to date and comprehensive information. Hopefully a newer edition of this book will be better researched and organized, but if it's by the same authors (Tony Pinchuck & Barbara McCrea), I wouldn't buy it.