South Africa Lesotho and Swaziland

James Bainbridge

Lonely Planet Publications, Sep 15, 2010 - Travel

Hiking, biking and flying amid craggy peaks and open plains, or watching a spectacular desert sunset, becomes possible with this guidebook. Watch wildlife in the savannah, engage in the vibrant cultures of San, Khoikhoi, Zulu and Xhosa or live it up in cities bursting with culinary, cultural and vineyard delights.
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
Unique Green Index to help you make your travels ecofriendly
Expanded itineraries take you from cape to coast or on the roads less travelled
Color wildlife chapter written by a natural-history expert

About the author

James has contributed to Lonely Planet books ranging from Middle East to the guide to his native Great Britain, but Africa is his speciality. He has written about the continent (mostly Francophone countries on the other side of the equator to South Africa), for publications including the Guardian, various travel magazines and Lonely Planet's Africa and West Africa. For this gig, he happily ditched his French dictionary and returned to a country he first visited while en route to Benin and Togo to start his first LP assignment. When he's not dodging nefarious mopane-worm pushers in Limpopo's Venda region, he lives in northeast London. James also wrote the Destination South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland, Getting Started, Itineraries, The Culture, Directory, Transport and Health chapters.

Bibliographic information

• Title: South Africa Lesotho and Swaziland; Country Guide; Lonely Planet South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland; Multi Country Guide Series
• Author: James Bainbridge
• Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications, 2010
• ISBN: 1742203752, 9781742203751
• Subjects: Travel / Africa / General; Travel / Reference