New Kenya Guide
For those who are interested, the new LP Kenya is just out this week. They have a new look and a lot more pictures. They also do a good job of showing the highlights of each area, when to go and why. However, they have also gotten skimpy with the maps, much less detailed than in other guides, and they go very quickly through each area, with limited listings of hotels and transportation. I hope that's not the future direction of LP.2
I never found the "hand drawn" LP maps very useful as they took a lot of liberties with scale and left out many smaller streets, so you weren't sure if you had walked too far. So I won't miss those. My policy is to print out a realistic Google map of any place I intend to visit. I rarely get lost now.I'd like to see LP cover more hotels but spend less time on describing each one. Their writers can make an art form out of describing how filthy and inadequate the cheap hotels are, the state of the toilets and the types of insects that infest the places, which makes for amusing reading but makes the books awfully heavy with information you don't really need.
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The LP Kenya is very light. The Rough Guide is more than twice the length. And from what I've seen on the Amazon preview, it is a lot more detailed.4
Happy to let anyone know what's in the RG. Though the current edition was published in 2010, it is indeed vastly more detailed than LP. Incindentally, the Amazon preview of RG Kenya is from the kindle version - a bit confusing if you were expecting book pages.Richard
