Tourist Travel & field guide of the Ngorongoro Conservation area - Tanzania by Veronica Roodt / Maps and Photographic Check Lists included / Veronica Roodt Publications 2006

Paperback 2006

ISBN: 9780620341912  /  978-0620341912

ISBN-10: 0620341912

PAGES: 184

PUBLISHER: Veronica Roodt Publications

LANGUAGE: English

Book dimensions : 15 x 21 cm

English Description:

A comprehensive guide to visiting the Ngorongoro region. The guide's first section consists of a travel guide; how to get there, where to stay, road conditions, best season to visit, and climate. It also contains detailed maps and background information on the history, people, topography, geology, and archaeology. The second section consists of a field guide that includes check lists and over 500 photographs of the plants, animals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects one is most likely to see. The text provides information on the nutritional value and medicinal uses of plants, habitat preferences of large mammals as well as interesting animal and bird behavior.

Veronica Roodt’s Tourist Travel and Field Guide of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area is made for tourists seeking for nature impressions. The first section is a travel guide with the usual travelling information on routes, accommodation, road conditions, ideal season to visit and climate. Also, it includes detailed maps and information on the topography, geology, archaeology, history and people of Tanzania’s famous conservation area. The second section is a field guide and provides information and photographs of over 500 plants, animals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and insects. Further on contact details for hotels and lodges in the general area and safari companies operating from Arusha are provided at the back of the book.

Maps included:

Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Arusha
Africa, simplified overview
Tanzania, to show position of the NCA
Serengeti Ecosystem
Topography of the NCA
Walking trails
Ngorongoro Crater
Olmoti Crater
Embulbul Depression, Losirua & Lolmalasin
Empakaai Crater
Oldoinyo Lengai, Kerimasi, Mosonik
Gol Mountains
Lake Ndutu & Lake Masek