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Tanzania (Country Guide) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 34848
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Pages: 392
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 174104555X
Dewey Decimal Number: 916.780442
EAN: 9781741045550
ASIN: 174104555X
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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BDiscover Tanzania/BBRBRSpy on vultures in their nests as you float over the Serengeti in a hot-air balloonBRWatch villagers slip by along the shoreline as you cruise down Lake TanganyikaBRRest your elbow on a sack of vegetables as you rattle south on the Tazara trainBRJump off a dhow into Zanzibar's warm shallows, and snorkel among shoals of fishBRBRBIn This Guide:/BBRBRGive something back: packed with community tourism spotlights and sustainable travel recommendationsBRSpecial chapters on trekking and safaris to help you choose the best operatorsBRNew color wildlife section with all the facts about both predators and prey
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consistent w/other Planet Earth, mostly favorable December 6, 2008
J. LABRIE (PHX)
if you like the Planet Earth approach to written guides, then you should find this very helpful. For me, the goal was getting much more info on 2 towns, Moshi Arusha. This was definitely helpful, albeit still coming up a bit short on these cities' information details. But overall info is, as always, quite sufficient.
 The book is full of errors July 27, 2008
Torstein (Norway)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is one of the worst editions of Lonely Planet books I've ever read. br / br /The book is full of factual errors which probably is a result of poor research. I doubt that the researcher actually have been at some of the places, and that he has copied information from the Internet instead. br / br /I traveled this summer in Tanzania, and ran into errors in this guidebook time and again. The Rough Guide was far more accurate, even though that book is two years older. br / br /I can accept that phone numbers are wrong, given the constantly expansion and changes in the Tanzanian mobile phone system, but addresses should be right most of the time. br / br /Further more, I can accept that travel times can't be relied upon as accurate in Africa, but if the journalist had actually travelled the distanses himself, he would have noticed things like: br / br /Travel times for bus companies are given to the region, not necessarily the city it self. That can mean a lot of difference given that the regions are huge. br / br /The slow ferry to Zanzibar does not take 3 hours as stated in the guide - however if you ask at the ticket office they will tell you that. The slow ferrys are all old freight boats with an extra deck, and they take between 6 till 8 hours on the entire journey. br / br /Several restaurants in this edition do not exist, or haven't opened yet. Given the lack of information on the food and service I doubt that the journalist actually bothered to sit down to eat at the places mentioned in the book. br / br /Shopping districts mentioned in the Dar es Salaam chapter does not contain the type of shops mentioned. For instance, there are virtually no curio or souvenir shops along the Samora avenue, even though the book claims there's a whole lot of them. br / br /The research behind this book is just so bad that it can't be relied upon. Get the Rough Guide instead - it's much better! br / br /Torstein
bradt guide is better May 29, 2008
D. Dsa (New York, U.S.A)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After having read both the Bradt and the Lonely Planet (LP) guide I can say that the Bradt guide, which is also available on amazon, is much better. Not that the LP guide is bad; in fact it provides a lot of information, which is why I give it 4 stars whereas I rated the Bradt guide 5 stars. The Bradt guide provides much more details about lodges/hotels it recommends and the presentation of information and maps are just much better
Lonely Planet vs. Rough Guide June 29, 2007
L. Hamburg (New York, NY United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was traveling with friends in Tanzania. I had the Lonely Planet and one of my friends had the Rough Guide. Lonely Planet is a good book but when it came down to the book that we REALLY found indespensible and would stay up at night reading -- the Rough Guide Tanzania won. Lonely planet is good, yes, but Rough Guide contained much more cultural information. It depends on what you are looking for. We are students and we were working in Tanzania. Rough Guide was better for the daily living and budget stuff. If you're just a tourist, Lonely Planet is perfectly acceptable.The Rough Guide to Tanzania, Edition Two (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
 This was a great guide!!! April 3, 2007
A. Rao (Boston, MA)
I just returned from Tanzania and this book provided all the information I needed on the different safaris, Masai tribe, Zanzibar/Stone Town, places to eat, etc. It was a great guide!
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