Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8229 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 392 pages

Synopsis
Includes a 16 page National Parks and Wildlife section. Sustainable travel options highlighted throughout, including community-owned businesses.

Customer Reviews

LONELY PLANET TANZANIA 2006
This paperback with 353 pages has a large colour map on pages 4-5. The first few pages deals with getting started. Then the book goes on to the history,culture, environment, safaris and the Tanzanian wildlife. There is a chapter on food and drink.
The book then moves on to different areas of Tanzania. You need to decide where you are going and then concentrate on that chapter. Once decided, log on to internet and check the lodges, roads and maps. The internet gives you lodges and camps in detail with photos.
The last chapters in the book deal with, transport, health, language and do's and don'ts. These are a must read. There are beautiful colour photos, maps and street maps through out the book.
Most of us travel with a reputable company and do the northern park of Tanzania. Havind born in Kenya and travelled to northern circuit few times in Tanzania, I can only reccomend this book. Visit during the calving session of wildebeest,from mid january to mid march. You will be amazed with the ammount of natural wildlife drama. Book ahead for this season. Most lodges and camps are excellent. Be careful, as at home in Arusha, where every body wants to sell you something.
The serengeti, Ngorongoro conservation area, tarangire National Parks are the 8th wonders of the world.
Read and ENJOY.

let down
Having just returned from trip to Tanzania, I feel badly let down by this book. It was largely as a result of its information on the supposedly excellent Scandanavian buses that we ended up missing our flight home. Advice: take the Rough Guide or Bradt, if you do take the Lonely Planet, add at least 2-3 hrs on to every journey time, ignore their advice on hotels, either they slam the good ones or big up the poor ones and, in reference to an earlier comment, if you do take travellers cheques, make sure you ave the reciept with you when you try and use them. I can't help feeling that lonely Planet relied on its well known name to make the book sell and failed to do any research for the latest edition.

lazy research, poor journalism
on the road, this book is practically useless. information clearly hasn't been updated since the previous edition, so a great deal of info is incorrect. the book was clearly written by someone with access to a car - you find yourself thinking, yes, i'll go and take a look at that. but, read on for the small print> often the only way to get to the recommended places is with your own transport or on a hideously expensive tour. this book is just lazy. the rough guide is 'less recent' (theoretically), but much much more useful. avoid this book like the plague.