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Fodor’s South Africa: with the Best Safari Destinations (Travel Guide)

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  1. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
    2.0 out of 5 stars
    lack of maps and details and photos doesnt seem to make a good guide for anyone?, December 10, 2015
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    david (melbourne, australia) –

    This review is from: Fodor’s South Africa: with the Best Safari Destinations (Travel Guide) (Paperback)
    My library had just about every guide to help plan my upcoming trip so I have pretty much read them all. I found this guide lacked the detail needed for independent travel (best done by Rough Guide and Lonely Planet) but also didnt have as much back ground information as the Insight Guide which would be best for those on a booked organised tour who dont need information on where to stay and eat (because tour has organised this).

    Thus this Fodors guide and also the Eye Witness Guide seem to be stranded in the middle with Fodors the worse of these two. At least the Eye Witness guide has nice glossy pages, a few inset maps and lots of colour photos and little cut away diagrams of some of the famous buildings and places to see etc, but this Fodors basically has no maps besides that large scale district maps at the start of each chapter and the the text is so slim that it misses lots places listed in other guides (such as Mokala NP in the Karoo I am visiting). I really struggle to see which target group of tourists this guide is designed for? If seemed a bit concentrated towards luxury accommodation and expensive fine dining to suggest it was trying for rich rather than budget/independent tourists travelling by car rather than flying everywhere but i suspect most rich tourists likely to be on an organised trip and thus would be better served by the glossy Insight Guide with its lots of photos rather than listed places to stay etc?
    safe travels from david in melbourne australia

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  2. 3.0 out of 5 stars
    Didn’t seem terribly in touch with local experiences, July 31, 2015
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    This review is from: Fodor’s South Africa: with the Best Safari Destinations (Travel Guide) (Paperback)
    Didn’t seem terribly in touch with local experiences. I also notice there’s no year number – I wonder how often they update it. Will probably try lonely planet next time, i think they have better-researched and more detailed books.

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  3. 5.0 out of 5 stars
    This is a great map although it cost way more than I wanted …, July 31, 2015
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    Bethrose (TX) –

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    This review is from: Fodor’s South Africa: with the Best Safari Destinations (Travel Guide) (Paperback)
    This is a great book. I love it. I am preparing for a trip next year. I have read lots of it already and checked out the guides it recommended. It’s nice to have an actual book to read and think about my trip and be able to write in the margins. I love it.

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