Rough Guide Travel Guides
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The Rough Guide to Cape Town and the Garden Route
by Tony Pinchuck and Barbara McCrea
Published 29 September 2005
With enough heart-pumping activities, from abseiling to paragliding, as well as more relaxed outings to beaches, vineyards and museums, Cape Town easily fills an extended visit. But many, if not most, visitors venture much further east, out along the Garden Route, whose enticements include some of the best land-based whale-watching in the world, crashing seascapes, dappled forests and, at its culmination, lions and elephants in the best game reserve in the southern half of the country. The Rough Guide to Cape Town and the Garden Route is the definitive guide to Cape Town, its stunning environs (including Table Mountain, Cape Point, the Winelands and the Whale Coast) and the Garden Route all the way to Port Elizabeth and the Addo Elephant National Park.
This guide to Zimbabwe and Botswana includes coverage of Victoria Falls - the adventure and safari capital of Southern Africa - and Okavango Swamp. There are details on travelling independently and on organized tours, covering every angle from hotels and restaurants to health and safety. The wildlife guide contains information on each species, and accounts of the region's ancient sights, ranging from the rock art of the Tsodilo Hills to the stone palaces of Great Zimbabwe.
Full details on the country's superb national parks and remote regions, including hiking, mountain biking and mountaineering opportunities. Everything you need to know about dealing with the cities - including a comprehensive survival guide to Johannesburg and full listings for all the country's major conurbations. Background informed from an insider's viewpoint (Barbara is Zimbabwean. Tony South African and Gregory a recent British immigrant) with every nuance of the country's complicated history and extraordinary present circumstances vividly portrayed and analysed.