Cape Town (City Guide)

By Insight Guides

Illuminating text: Expert writers bring to life the city's history, culture, current affairs and, above all, the people. Incisive evaluations: From the top of Table Mountain to the VandA Waterfront,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9812582428
• ISBN13: 9789812582423
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Insight Guides
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.6" x 0.7" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

All You Need

This book is well written and comprehensive. It is clear, amply illustrated, and helpfully indexed. You need not purchase any other guide for a one or two week visit to Cape Town. It served my touring purposes well. I recommend it highly.

Best of the 3

I ordered 3 different books for my trip to Cape Town and this was by far the best, and the one I constantly came back to.

A must-have if you're heading to Cape Town

I got this guide as a gift. My friends have the Lonely Planet one and I have seen other brands for Cape Town. The Insight guide is 10 million times better than most of the competition. More detailed and useful photographs, all in color, at least one on each page. Short text but crammed with information for those who would rather spend time on adventures than reading a guide book. It was very entertaining to read as well. If you're going to Cape Town, get this book and you will know what I mean. Their warning about Long Street is hilarious. Their description of the people who hang out at the Clifton Beaches is unbelievable coming from a guide book. There are little interesting stories/facts throughout the book such as the one about the first female doctor to perform a C-section. She was pretending to be a man in order to be a doctor and the truth was only discovered when she died. Again, this book is such a great deal for the price and beats almost all other guidebooks out there at under $10.