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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 amid 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 with regards to both predators and prey
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
An magnificent travel companion
By A
The Lonely Planet formulates magnificent travel guides, and their Tanzania/Zanzibar edition is no exception. I have employed this book on four dissimilar trips, and found it indispensible. The guide does an admirable occupation describing the ordinary tourist stops (the game parks, Zanzibar's Stone Town, etc.), but it is real strength lies in giving the details necessary to take the roads less travelled.

I have found the hotel prices in the guide to be outstandingly accurate, though naturally a great deal of things have changed. The "getting there and away" divisions provide choices for transportation to and from cities and towns; while the range of number of things from which only one can be chosen in general stays the same, departure times and prices may change drastically. Always plan on things taking longer than you expect.

Tanzania and Zanzibar are astounding places to visit, and the Lonely Planet will give you the means to make the most of your trip.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
zanzibar
By A
We are a couple of divers and we decisive to go to Zanzibar for diving holidays. We took the book with us and the only thing we may say is - it's a bible for budget travelers. There are galore splendid recommendations when it comes to the overnights and good restaurants. The prices in the book were somewhat accurate. Important thing was that it gave us a good get started in bargening. The only thing this book was missing out was a good deal of more data on island pemba.

25 of 27 persons found the following review helpful.
The book is full of errors
By Torstein
This is one of the worst editions of Lonely Planet books I've ever read.

The book is full of factual faults which in all likelihood is a result of poor research. I doubt that the researcher genuinely have been at galore of the places, and that he has copied selective information from the Internet instead.

I traveled this summer in Tanzania, and ran into faults in this guidebook time and again. The Rough Guide was far more accurate, even though that book is two years older.

I may receive that phone numbers are wrong, given the perpetually elaboration and changes in the Tanzanian mobile phone system, but addresses will have to be right most of the time.

Further more, I may receive that travel times can't be relied upon as precise in Africa, but if the journalist had in truth travelled the distanses himself, he would have noticed things like:

Travel times for bus companies are given to the region, not inevitably the city it self. That may mean a lot of divergence given that the regions are huge.

The slow ferry to Zanzibar does not take 3 hours as stated in the guide - notwithstanding 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 amid 6 till 8 hours on the entire journey.

Several restaurants in this edition do not exist, or haven't opened yet. Given the lack of info on the feed and service I doubt that the journalist actually bothered to sit down to eat at the places noted in the book.

Shopping districts noted in the Dar es Salaam chapter does not integrate the type of shops mentioned. For instance, there are nearly no curio or souvenir shops along the Samora avenue, even even though the book claims there's a whole lot of them.

The exploration behind this book is just so bad that it can't be relied upon. Get the Rough Guide rather - it's much better!

Torstein

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