Rwanda is developing rapidly and this comprehensively updated edition of Bradt’s pioneering book – still the only dedicated guide to the country in English - has 50 extra pages reflecting the very latest changes and improvements to hotels, tours and transport, together with full details of other practical travel information.
Rwanda remains the essential guide for independent and tour-group travellers, with its coverage of the country’s ancient and modern history, cultural and artistic highlights and volcanic hiking trails!
Wildlife endures as the main force driving Rwanda’s tourism industry and the guidebook excels in providing extensive detail of national parks, activities and key resident species – chimp tracking in Nyungwe Forest and, of course, encounters with critically endangered mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park.
The new edition of Michael Buckley’s Tibet guide continues to provide interesting and knowledgeable insights. Independent travel remains challenging, not least because Tibet’s roads are amongst the highest, wildest and roughest in Asia.
Trekking, motoring, mountain-biking and the new Qinghai-Tibet railway are all covered, with particular emphasis given to a careful selection of ‘Star treks’ – high-altitude treks, in the Everest region, plus routes through little-visited northern and eastern areas of Kham and Amdo.
Tibet may be geographically remote but political and cultural sensitivities are not, and as such the book includes advice on etiquette on etiquette, local customs and traveling with minimum impact on Tibet’s culture and environment. It even features an illustrated guide to Tibetan gestures and hand signals! In addition, there are 16-pages of photographs, including a dedicated section covering the region’s ‘must-see’.
Bradt’s Armenia – with Nagorno Karabagh, guide is still the only one in English to offer comprehensive information on travel in Armenia, a destination well worth visiting in its own right, and extending to the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabagh. Armenia enjoys an astonishingly well-preserved legacy of historic buildings, often set in magnificent locations. Nicholas Holding covers a wide spectrum of activities that gives Armenia a huge potential for visitors, including birding, hiking, the arts, architectural tours, botanical trips, angling, horse riding and caving.
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