Product Description

Written by an expert who has visited the region over 40 times, this guide to East Africa covers Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda and Eritrea. It provides background information, as well as comprehensive listings for all budgets on where to stay, eat and drink. The book features a colour section on wildlife with an animal location chart, and accurate and detailed information on national parks and game reserves. Over 150 boxes contain details on random aspects of life in East Africa, and colour maps help with planning the trip.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1656282 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 864 pages

Review
Invaluable - a must for visitors wanting to know all there is to know. -- Africa Travel News

From the Publisher
Dear Fellow Traveller Thank you for checking out the East Africa Handbook 2000. Footprint are an independent British publisher (based in Bath). We specialise in providing travellers with guide books that are second to none in terms of accuracy, recency and especially coverage. You will find that most of our guides are simply the most comprehensive available with in-depth information on history, culture and customs as well as practical travel information. Our major titles are updated ANNUALLY to ensure you have the best information to hand. If there are no reviews for this particular title we recommend you check out the reader reviews on the Peru and South American Handbooks which give a good flavour of how useful our books are. You might like to know that we also publish Namibia and South Africa Handbooks and an extremely useful general guide to travelling: The Traveller's Handbook. Finally, whichever guide book you choose, we would like to wish you an exciting, illuminating and above all enjoyable trip.

From the Inside Flap
Covering Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda and Eritrea this guide give wide ranging practical coverage of all aspects of travelling in this fascinating part of Africa from scuba diving in Zanzibar to safaris in Kenya and Tanzania.

Customer Reviews

Excellent for trip planning
This book has a lot of information. Amazing how many hotel and restaurants are listed, broken down by price. There are even descriptions of what type of food to expect. I love the history inserts throughout the book. I appreciate the author being forthright regarding health, safety and how to respect the local authorities. Well worth the money.

A Dissenting Opinion
It's not that this book is so bad, it's simply that it isn't worth the superlatives heaped on it by the other reviewers.
Although it is nice enough, it simply wasn't practical for bare-knuckle travelling. Having left behind the much more detailed (and therefore more informative) Bradt guides for Uganda, Ethiopia and Zanzibar (yeah, shame on me for being such a fool), I purchased this last minute substitute in an airport enroute.
It was a pleasant read, but not very helpful in trying to determined the easiest, cheapest or most enjoyable mode of transport from point A to point B - whether that was from town to town, or from airport to sleeping accomodations.
Some of the information was dreastically out-of-date (though that can happen with any guidebook that is not current) and the price informaiton was annoying. I much prefer seeing the prices next to the listing rather than go searching for some cost index table to decode each country's living expenses.
The thing I found most objectionable were the difficult-to-manuever maps.
The Bradt guides get my thumbs up recommendation. I am not a fan of Lonely Plant, but I have to concede that even their guide is superior to this book in terms of a practical travel aid.

east africa handbook
very helpful and easy to use guide. worth every cent.