Complete, practical country guide for independent travellers. Includes dedicated safaris chapter, offering expert advice on car, boat, walking, balloon and canoe safaris. Special section coverage on gorilla trek. 16 page colour wildlife guide and thorough coverage of cultures and peoples.

2004-02-26 Very useful for general travels in East Africa

This book was invaluable when travelling in East Africa. The layout is easy to understand and it has basic country history, language and local information, as well as information about East Africa in general.
There is not as much detain in the single East Africa book as in each individual country book, and although this was in some ways irritating it was useful when making last minute travel plans. Guide books are not widely available in east Africa, but it was easy to change plans to suit our requirements with the book covering the whole area.
I would recommend a more specialised book for exploring one country in more depth, or to accompany this one.