South Africa (Globetrotter Travel Guide)

by PeterJoyce (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $4.72

  This comprehensive and handy pocket-size guide is packed with useful information, tips and recommendations for the first-time traveller who wants to experience the major highlights South Africa has to offer. This travel book surpasses other guides in that it incorporates essential information in an easy-to-carry, easy-to-read format that is attractive and useful at the same time. It provides the first-time visitor with an invaluable introduction to South Africa by concisely highlighting the country's 'must see' areas in a practical and user-friendly format, thus encouraging the tourist to make the most of his/her available time. The guide is authoritative, and all the essential information one needs to get around an unfamiliar country is presented in useful, digestible 'At-a-Glance' pages at the end of each chapter. The text is complemented by quality photographs.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.27

  This is a guide for the first-time visitor with limited time, who wants to experience the best that South Africa has to offer. The guide recommends the sights worth seeing and places of interest to visit, and advises on where to stay, eat and shop, excursions to take, and the best way to travel around. A short introduction profiles South Africa's history - including the May 1994 presidential election - people, places and wildlife, government and economy. This is followed by descriptions of what to see and do in the popular tourist regions - Cape Town and Winelands, Garden Route, Transvaal Escarpment and Kruger National Park, Durban, Natal and Zululand, Drakensburg, Sun City and the Witwatersrand. The text contains travel tips, useful information panels and colour photographs, maps and climate charts which will enable visitors to make the most of the time available.