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.The Rough Guide to Cape Town and the Garden Route - Edition 1
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by: Tony Pinchuck, Barbara McCrea

September 29, 2005
My girlfriend and I spent 2 weeks in South Africa and hired a car, travelling over 1000 KM on our journey. It was absolutely amazing. This book was our bible in planning our days. Please do not be put off by the "rough guide" tag, this is misleading as this guide would be invaluable to all travelers, it is certainly not just a backpackers book. Very informative, bang up to date, it gives you everything from things to do/places of interest/local history to costs and directions as well as the usual accommodation/restaurants. It was like having our own tour guide. Locals and guesthouse owners on our journey would tell us that you must do this or that, but most things we already knew about from the rough guide. We went great white shark diving, ... Read More:
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.The Rough Guide to Cape Town, the Winelands and the Garden Route (Rough Guide to Cape Town & Garden Route)
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by: Tony Pinchuck, Barbara McCrea

October 01, 2008
This is the latest guide on Cape Town & surrounds to be released (Oct 08) and being the most up-to-date makes it a worthwhile purchase. However, I think a lot more could have gone into this guide and the coverage of certain key tourist areas is lacking substantially. Buy this guide but do your own research on the internet to find the best places to stay, bars, clubs and restaurants. Don't just rely on this guide for that! For less than £9 on the web it's worth having, at RRP of £12.99 it's overpriced.
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.South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland (Lonely Planet Country Guide)
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by: Mary Fitzpatrick, Kate Armstrong, Becca Blond, Michael Kohn, Simon Richmond, Alistair Simmonds

November 01, 2006
I am surprised at the negative feedback here. As a consistent user of Lonely Planet guides, I have to say that this ranked as one of the more useful country guides i have come across. Writing guidebooks must be a very tricky business - it is necessary to include such a vast quantity of information, while trying simultaneously to capture the feel and mood of a country in such a way that people know what to expect back home. This particular guide does an excellent job in this respect.

I spent one month travelling from Pretoria to Cape Town, taking a winding route through Swaziland and Lesotho. I had no schedule and went where I wanted when I wanted. And perhaps it is for this kind of travelling that this guide is most suitable - it ... Read More:
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.South Africa (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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by: Michael Brett

August 02, 2007
I am surprised at the negative feedback here. As a consistent user of Lonely Planet guides, I have to say that this ranked as one of the more useful country guides i have come across. Writing guidebooks must be a very tricky business - it is necessary to include such a vast quantity of information, while trying simultaneously to capture the feel and mood of a country in such a way that people know what to expect back home. This particular guide does an excellent job in this respect.

I spent one month travelling from Pretoria to Cape Town, taking a winding route through Swaziland and Lesotho. I had no schedule and went where I wanted when I wanted. And perhaps it is for this kind of travelling that this guide is most suitable - it ... Read More:
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."Time Out" Cape Town, Winelands and the Garden Route (Time Out Cape Town)
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by: Time Out Guides Ltd

June 07, 2007
This is good book if you are in Cape Town itself and its immediate surrounding areas.. but if you are travelling further afield on the garden route I found it a little thin on the ground. This might sound picky, but it does state on the cover that it covers the Garden Route. Rather too many pictures and whole sections dedicated to "sport and fitness" and "gay and lesbian", and three quarters of this book seems to be dedicated just to Cape Town itself. If you travelling to Cape Town and then plan on exploring the entire Western Cape and want to buy just one book to cover everything, then the "rough guide" (see my review) is far better as an informative travel companion in my opinion.
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.South Africa (Globetrotter Travel Map)
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by: New Holland Publishers (Uk) Ltd

October 01, 2006
This is good book if you are in Cape Town itself and its immediate surrounding areas.. but if you are travelling further afield on the garden route I found it a little thin on the ground. This might sound picky, but it does state on the cover that it covers the Garden Route. Rather too many pictures and whole sections dedicated to "sport and fitness" and "gay and lesbian", and three quarters of this book seems to be dedicated just to Cape Town itself. If you travelling to Cape Town and then plan on exploring the entire Western Cape and want to buy just one book to cover everything, then the "rough guide" (see my review) is far better as an informative travel companion in my opinion.
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.Cape Town (Lonely Planet City Guide)
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by: Simon Richmond, Alistair Simmonds

October 01, 2006
This is good book if you are in Cape Town itself and its immediate surrounding areas.. but if you are travelling further afield on the garden route I found it a little thin on the ground. This might sound picky, but it does state on the cover that it covers the Garden Route. Rather too many pictures and whole sections dedicated to "sport and fitness" and "gay and lesbian", and three quarters of this book seems to be dedicated just to Cape Town itself. If you travelling to Cape Town and then plan on exploring the entire Western Cape and want to buy just one book to cover everything, then the "rough guide" (see my review) is far better as an informative travel companion in my opinion.
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.Cape Town Insight Flexi Map
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from: APA Publications Pte Ltd

March 31, 2006
This is good book if you are in Cape Town itself and its immediate surrounding areas.. but if you are travelling further afield on the garden route I found it a little thin on the ground. This might sound picky, but it does state on the cover that it covers the Garden Route. Rather too many pictures and whole sections dedicated to "sport and fitness" and "gay and lesbian", and three quarters of this book seems to be dedicated just to Cape Town itself. If you travelling to Cape Town and then plan on exploring the entire Western Cape and want to buy just one book to cover everything, then the "rough guide" (see my review) is far better as an informative travel companion in my opinion.
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.Top 10 Cape Town & the Winelands with Map (DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides)
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by: Philip Briggs

2008-09
This is good book if you are in Cape Town itself and its immediate surrounding areas.. but if you are travelling further afield on the garden route I found it a little thin on the ground. This might sound picky, but it does state on the cover that it covers the Garden Route. Rather too many pictures and whole sections dedicated to "sport and fitness" and "gay and lesbian", and three quarters of this book seems to be dedicated just to Cape Town itself. If you travelling to Cape Town and then plan on exploring the entire Western Cape and want to buy just one book to cover everything, then the "rough guide" (see my review) is far better as an informative travel companion in my opinion.
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.A Rough Guide Map South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland (Rough Guide Map)
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by: Rough Guides

August 28, 2003
This is good book if you are in Cape Town itself and its immediate surrounding areas.. but if you are travelling further afield on the garden route I found it a little thin on the ground. This might sound picky, but it does state on the cover that it covers the Garden Route. Rather too many pictures and whole sections dedicated to "sport and fitness" and "gay and lesbian", and three quarters of this book seems to be dedicated just to Cape Town itself. If you travelling to Cape Town and then plan on exploring the entire Western Cape and want to buy just one book to cover everything, then the "rough guide" (see my review) is far better as an informative travel companion in my opinion.
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