Traveller's guide to East Africa and the Indian Ocean

252 Pages·1981·35.692 MB·English

by  Gill Garb (editor)

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TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO EAST AFRICA
AND THE INDIAN OCEAN
A
complete travel companion to
Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius,
Reunion, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan,
Tanzania and Uganda
Fourth year of publication

TRAVELLER'S GUIDE
TO
EASTAFRICA
AND THE INDIAN OCEAN
anCC publication
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Publisher Ahmed Afif Ben Yedder
Editor Gill Garb
Assistant Editor Reg Grant
Editorial Assistant Francesca Smith
Cover Design Malcolm Jackson
Advertising Manager Janey Burland
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CONTENTS
8 Regional Map
10 Temperature and Rainfall
Currency Table
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12 Do's and Dont's
18 Ready, Steady, Go
23 East African Holiday
32 Wildlife of East Africa, Colin Willock
42 Peoples of East Africa, Jocelyn Murray
52 From Cairo to the Cape, Christopher Sheppard
COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY
64 Comoros 156 Reunion
72 Djibouti 162 Seychelles
79 Ethiopia 174 Somalia
98 Kenya 184 Sudan
131 Madagascar 200 Tanzania
145 Mauritius 230 Uganda