The latest Africa Travel Guide edition is available in pick and mix chapters that you can download online from the Lonely Planet travel guide website.

Ever been on the road and found yourself with several different guide books weighing you down? Or carrying that one giant multi-destination whopper tome although you’ve already visited half the places in it and its even too big to be a pillow?

The idea with pick and mix chapter buying is that you can select the parts of the Africa travel guide book that are useful and relevant to you on your travels in Africa without having to butcher the guidebook.

Great news for travellers needing only chapters for certain destinations covered in the Africa travel guide, as now you don’t have to carry the whole continent on your back when you’re only visiting Sudan and Egypt. Another handy aspect of getting the Africa travel guide chapters
individually is the added flexibility. If you add an extra country, such as Kenya, to
your travel itinerary then all you need to do is download the extra Africa travel guide chapter on Kenya and you are ready to go.

Picking the specific pieces of the travel guide that you want with the digital downloading services offered by Lonely Planet is more cost effective and much more environmentally friendly. You don’t have to waste paper printing out your downloaded guidebook chapters unless you want to and even then you only print the parts of the guidebook that you need, which saves paper anyway.

Not only will Lonely Planets’ pick and mix chapters help adventurers to travel lightly, but this service also ensures that the travel information is up-to-date. The chapters contain content from the latest print editions before they have even been released, ensuring that information is current. This is particularly useful for travel to many regions of Africa where essential travel information and conditions are changing constantly.

I for one think that selling downloadable online chapters is an excellent service, having lugged around more guidebooks than commonsense at times. It feels like mild sacrilege to carve up an actual guidebook and I am guilty of ditching unwanted chapters on past travels. This brings me to my only concern, which is that I have also chased random guidebook pages over tropical island beaches and squinted down at jumbled chapters in buses trying to reorder information before arriving at the next approaching destination.

For advice and information on travel in Africa contact us at Africa Travel Guide. Or visit the Africa travel guide pick and mix chapters from the Lonely Planet travel website.

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