Tanzania Safari Guide: With Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar and the coast (Bradt Travel Guide) Paperback – October 15, 2013

We're heading for Tanzania next August for a safari, so I checked out every East Africa safari guide I could find at my local library. This one is by far the best, with comprehensive hints, suggestions, and answers to basically all my questions - so I bought it for my iPad, which I will take along when we go. It also has such gems as a pre-planned walking tour of Zanzibar's Stone Town and basic vocabulary in both kiSwahili and the Maasai language. How accurate is its information? Well, we haven't been to Tanzania yet, so I can't answer that. What I can say is that this guidebook has set my mind at ease with respect to what we can expect when we get there, how to avoid the most common tourist mistakes, and how best to use our limited time and resources. In short, it does everything I want a guidebook to do, and does it well.

So my husband and I are headed to Tanzania, Africa this summer. I wanted to get some guide books to help us plan our trip. I purchased this book as well as Insight Guides Tanzania and Zanzibar book. I was disappointed that this book only had a few colored pages. The rest were black and white and so much information, I got bored trying to read it. I find the Insight Guides version is more interesting. I would also just stick to using Trip Advisor and save yourself the $25 for this book.

Good book, covers things well. The history of the country was an added bonus. Will read again before the trip in the summer.

The new 7th edition of "Tanzania Safari Guide" has all that we've come to expect of the Philip Briggs guides to Tanzania - general information for the country, maps, detailed coverage of cities, towns, parks & other points of interest with extensive listings of accommodations & restaurants - in an updated version. While readers may want to refer to the TripAdvisor website for reviews of accommodations not included here, they will find the guide invaluable in providing the number of units and cost breakdowns for those covered. This guide includes virtually all the information found in the 3rd edition of the Briggs/McIntyre "Northern Tanzania" guide, published at about the same time, plus coverage of Tanzania's southern safari circuit, thus making it my choice as THE guide for all of Tanzania.

This is a well written, well organized book that gave me a lot of ideas of what to expect to do on safari in Tanzania. The writing style is very personable, advice is good and it allowed me to work with a recommended safari company to come up with a trip we are finalizing at this time.

It is good if you are doing the safari on your own but with travel guides and travel tour groups, a lot of the work is cut out for you and this was not something that I needed. I will keep for a reference.

A very helpful guide. I found information in here on hotels that I couldn't find in other sources. Also good information on what to bring. After checking out as many guide books as I could, I believe this one was the best on the market.

Excellent insight into the country and people. Feels like these authors really know the place.