Product Description

The highly successful "Globetrotter Travel Series", which includes Travel Guides, Maps and 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. This travel book surpasses other guides in that it incorporates essential information in an easy-to-carry and easy-to-read format that is attractive and useful at the same time. It provides a visitor with an invaluable introduction to the Kruger National Park by concisely highlighting the region's 'must see' areas in a practical and user-friendly format, thus encouraging the tourist to make the most of his/her available time. All the essential information you need to get around an unfamiliar region is compacted into useful and practical 'At-a-Glance' sections at the end of each chapter. The fold-out map of the Kruger National Park is ideal for tourists and visitors. In addition to the main map of the Kruger National Park, which highlights scenic routes, it features 3 detailed area maps and 12 camp plans.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #306962 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Having spent his childhood in the Kruger National Park, Dr L.E.O. Braack is singularly qualified to write about this, one of the world's finest game parks. He has an intimate knowledge of the park, its attractions and its prolific wildlife.

Customer Reviews

Successfully used to traverse the Kruger Park
We bought this guide for our trip to the Kruger Park as it had a map included. The book proved invaluable for our trip and enabled us to drive across the park a few times using various routes with no other maps or guides.

The map itself is quite large when unfolded and needs to be refolded down to a handy size otherwise you can't see out of the car!

The book has just enough information in it about all the different routes across this amazing National Park to allow the reader to make informed decisions about where to go and roughly how long it will take.

A word of warning if you are a first time visitor to the park - leave plently of time to get back to the gate before it shuts if you are not staying in the Kruger Park itself. We estimated how long it would take to get back, but were held up on a couple of occasions by herds of buffalo and impala. On one occasion I saw some Police in the Park hidden at the roadside with a speed camera, so you can't just put your foot down to make up the lost time!!

If you are going to the Kruger, or on any safari, it's really worth investing in a decent camera - preferably a DSLR with at least 200mm zoom lense (mine was 300mm) or a 'Superzoom' or 'bridge' camera with 12x zoom or more. You will not regret the financial outlay when you see the difference in your photos and you could sell the camera on an auction site when you get home :-)

Back to the book - it's an entertaining read and good value. Also it's quite a handy size so you can easily carry it in a bag or even a large pocket. Comes in a waterproof plastic cover. Loses a star as I felt some of the photos were a bit old and the map could have been slightly more detailed and a more practical size/layout.

Having said that, I couldn't find anything available that was better than this book at the time I was buying it (late 2007)