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Insight Guide to Tanzania & Zanzibar is a pictorial travel guide in a magazine style providing answers to the key questions before or during your trip: deciding when to go to Tanzania & Zanzibar, choosing what to see, from exploring Stone Town to discovering Ruaha National Park or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Mount Kilimanjaro, Serengeti National Park. This is an ideal travel guide for travellers seeking inspiration, in-depth cultural and historical information about Tanzania & Zanzibar as well as a great selection of places to see during your trip. This guide book has been fully updated post-COVID-19.

The Insight Guide Tanzania & Zanzibar covers: Dar es Salaam, The North Coast and Usambara, Arusha and Kilimanjaro, The Northern Safari Circuit, Western and Central Tanzania, Southern Parks and Tanzam Highway, Mbeya and Lake Nyasa, The South Coast, Zanzibar and Pemba.

In this travel guide you will find:

IN-DEPTH CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL FEATURES  
Created to explore the culture and the history of Tanzania & Zanzibar to get a greater understanding of its modern-day life, people and politics.

BEST OF
The top attractions and Editor's Choice highlighting the most special places to visit around Tanzania & Zanzibar.

CURATED PLACES, HIGH QUALITY MAPS
Geographically organised text cross-referenced against full-colour, high quality travel maps for quick orientation in Pemba, Dar es Salaam and many more locations in Tanzania & Zanzibar.

COLOUR-CODED CHAPTERS
Every part of Tanzania & Zanzibar, from Usambara to Lake Nyasa has its own colour assigned for easy navigation.

TIPS AND FACTS
Up-to-date historical timeline and in-depth cultural background to Tanzania & Zanzibar as well as an introduction to Tanzania & Zanzibar's food and drink and fun destination-specific features.  

PRACTICAL TRAVEL  INFORMATION
A-Z of useful advice on everything from when to go to Tanzania & Zanzibar, how to get there and how to get around, as well as Tanzania & Zanzibar's climate, advice on tipping, etiquette and more.  

STRIKING PICTURES
Features inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Kilwa Kisiwani and the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater.

FREE EBOOK
Free eBook download with every purchase of a printed book to access all the content from your phone or tablet, for on-the-road exploration.

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