The Bradt Travel Guide Namibia

by Bradt Travel Guides

Book Overview

Ideal for the independent traveller, this guide includes detailed accommodation listings for guest farms, lodges and bush-camps. It also contains tips for drivers, desert activities, suggested... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841621870
• ISBN13: 9781841621876
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

incredibly helpful and thorough guide

This is probably the single best travel guide I've ever used. Several friends and I just returned from a lengthy road trip through Namibia, and this book was incredibly useful to us throughout. Every campsite and backpacker-lodge recommendation was spot on. We saw animal tracks on the beach - the book had a visual guide to help us identify them. Our 4x4 got stuck in the sand - the guide had a section on how to get it out. The author provides just the right amount of detail and has an even-handed yet authoritative and personal perspective that you can tell comes from years of experience in Namibia. His opinion does occasionally shine through a bit too much (notably, in one lengthy passage extolling the virtues of one particular Skeleton Coast aerial-safari operator), but on the whole those opinions are very helpful. We did also feel that the author sugarcoated Windhoek a bit - the city didn't feel very safe, and it would've been nice to know that a bit more candidly in advance. On the whole though, a fantastic guide to Namibia - if the other Bradt guides are anything like this, I'll definitely use them again.

Hands-down the best guide book to Namibia

This is the best guide book to Namibia published in English. I have been living in Namibia for awhile and have all recently published English language guide books to Namibia. My family all agrees that the Bradt guide is by far the most comprehensive and up to date - it has by far more listings, more details about history and attractions, and more travel information than any other guide. It is the only book that gives detailed tips on best roads/routes to take as well. It also has details on where petrol stations are, where good bookstores are, where to shop, etc., and describes lesser known attractions that aren't listed in other books. As of mid 2008, it's prices are also the most accurate for lodging - and putting the prices in Namibian dollars actually is quite helpful as the prices really vary depending on the value of the rand. The book also has some basic descriptions of some of the common Namibian mammals & birds, though we use other books for identifying animals and birds. We also appreciate the authors advice for touring/travellng responsibly. Whenever we plan an excursion in Namibia (and we have travelled extensively), we always use the "green book", as we call it for its green binding - though it looks blue from the front, as our first source. We lent it out for two weeks to a visitor and relied on other common guide books. We ended up taking the wrong route and stayed in a campground that wasn't comfortable based on the information from the other guide books. When we got the green book/Bradt guide back, we looked up the details and saw that the Bradt book would have pointed us on the faster route and would have steered us clear of that particular camping ground. We will be careful lending it out again!

Extensive guide about Namibia

If you have a desire to travel to Namibia, Chris McIntyre's book is the perfect read. Anything and everything about Namibia is included and is superior to any other guide on the subject.

Great Guide To Namibia

The Bradt Guide has great detail about Namibia. It presents a comprehensive review with some recently updated information. It is the kind of guide that one would bring in touring the country. Good information about the sites and places to stay, as well as good detailed local maps make this a useful guide, particularly for those not traveling on an organized tour.

superior guide

I have been a world traveler for over a decade, relying on books and word of mouth for my guides. I found Namibia, by Chris McIntyre, to be an excellent resource for my prospective trip to the country. It not only has the information needed to become acquainted with the country and plan the trip, it emphasizes an all important and too often neglected focus: that of treading lightly and respecting the native people (bravo!!). I have typically sought out Lonely Planet books for my trips (I usually refer to two books for my information) and found that this book filled in a number of gaps that the afore mentioned book left out. I would recommend this book as the 'number one' book to anyone traveling to Namibia. The only thing this book lacked was a better section on local languages. Unfortunately I have found it difficult to find more than background information on launguge in ANY book on Namibia. Good Traveling!