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...for the adventurous traveler who wants to live like a native.' --Real Simple Magazine, June 2005
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Lonely Planet Tanzania
Spy on vultures in their nests as you float over the Serengeti in a hot-air balloon
Watch villagers slip by along the shoreline as you cruise down Lake Tanganyika
Rest your elbow on a sack of vegetables as you rattle south on the Tazara train
Jump off a dhow into Zanzibar's warm shallows, and snorkel among shoals of fish
In This Guide:
Give something back: packed with community tourism spotlights and sustainable travel recommendations
Special chapters on trekking and safaris to help you choose the best operators
New color wildlife section with all the facts about both predators and prey
Content updated daily - visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates, and traveler suggestions
Spy on vultures in their nests as you float over the Serengeti in a hot-air balloon
Watch villagers slip by along the shoreline as you cruise down Lake Tanganyika
Rest your elbow on a sack of vegetables as you rattle south on the Tazara train
Jump off a dhow into Zanzibar's warm shallows, and snorkel among shoals of fish
In This Guide:
Give something back: packed with community tourism spotlights and sustainable travel recommendations
Special chapters on trekking and safaris to help you choose the best operators
New color wildlife section with all the facts about both predators and prey
Content updated daily - visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates, and traveler suggestions
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
46 of 50 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Lonely planet guides are patchy, but this one is an unusually poor, lazy effort. For every area covered a quick list of hotels and tour companies is given, but the a compendium of lists is little use to anyone. The information on Arusha and the popular Ngorongoro/Serengeti/Kilimanjaro trips is thin enough, but the absence of information on Zanzibar (for example the differences between the beaches and towns and dive sites) is a complete joke. Pre-internet this book might just about have been worth it to save time on travel and accomodation information, but honestly, two hours on the web will give you far more interesting and useful information. The fact that it's now well out-of-date is hardly LP's fault, but it makes it even less useful now.
(one useful tip that should but doesn't appear in the book - don't take travellers' cheques to Tanzania)
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
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A little out of date, but a great book
This book gives extensive coverage of Tanzania if you are going as a traveller rather than a tourist. Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2005
This book contains out-of-date info
Having used Lonely Planet guides on previous travels, I bought this book before going on holiday in Zanzibar, but was badly let down. Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2001
Insightful, interesting and vital for visiting Tanzania!
Once again Lonely Planet have cornered the market for providing an excellent guide covering virtually everything you need to know for travelling around Tanzania. Read more
Published on 29 Oct 2000
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