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My wife and I were looking for a big trip to take, and she suggested to go to southern africa, (south africa, botswana, victoria falls) for a 3 week trip in November. I was pretty hesitant because its africa although cape town (+wine country) and botswana are very safe. I'd have to say it's by far the best trip we have taken, although extremely expensive (~25k in 3 weeks).

If you hate flights, this is not the trip for you. 11 hours from SFO to europe (heathrow for us) then 11 more hours to Cape Town. The way back was 4+ flights, 38 hours door to door. We took 12 flights total. You shouldn't do this trip if you can only take a week or two off.

Cape town was very european and cheap. We stayed in a safe trendy area and ate very well. Even at a trendy restaurant, I'd get a filet, she'd get lamb; bottle of wine, the total would be $40USD. We hired a private tour guide to drive us around the city, the cape, and through wine country where we spent a few days. This was all arranged by a travel agent which is very common for US/euro tourists. We met a lot of people doing similar trips along the way.

We went on safari in Kruger in SA (saw the big 5 animals in the first hour), then to Victoria Falls which was OK (wouldn't recommend TBH, but saw what tourist towns in Zambia and Zimbabwe are like). Though it was nice to split up the safari days since we had ~9 days of safari.

The amazing thing about the private safari camps is they can drive anywhere. We were literally following lions, leopards, cheetahs behind by 20 feet. The guides would drive over massive bushes and even small trees with the truck to make sure we saw everything, including the hunting by the predators.
The camps have more staff than guests - 16 to 24 guests max. We each had our own house in the middle of the bush, no fences or anything. Our last camp In Botswana was on a river filled with hippos. Botswana was very safe/touristy/developed btw.

So moto, here are your requested pix delivered in a new thread.

All taken with a cheap-ish ($1100) 3 year old canon 70d with 55-250mm zoom (cropped so 250mm becomes 375mm), although we were so close in our truck at these private camps, i had to swap to a wider lense a couple times. we had lions cubs walking under our car and mom right on the side. A male lion slept under our house and woke us up one night for several hours while he grunted to other lions.

Other tourists were ranged in cameras - some dorks were taking photos with their iphone. Other groups hired their own guide/tracker/truck and had $40k+ in cameras/lenses. Average was similar to us with the 70D.


























 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGjtv2jHKrg
 
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wow
 
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Pic of you in safari hat or I'm calling bull****
 
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Will forever remind me of McFly.
 
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why did you only take pictures of stupid animals, i can see that **** in a zoo
 
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That's like saying why eat at a Michelin star restaurant when you could eat a steak at chiles
 
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no it's like saying why eat a steak at a michelin star restaurant when you can have one delivered to your house

learn to do analogies IDIOT
 
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Dang you got me.

During the hunting, we back off when prey was close and everything happens in two seconds. So I don't have any good shots of an animal being taken down. Putting the camera down to watch isn't a bad thing. Sorry my photos disappoint you.
 
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i'm just messing with you bro they're good shots animals are just gay u kno
 
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<3
 
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Nice pics! Looks like you saw some good stuff

Which private camps did you go to? We went to the lower sabie area in Kruger, the sightings were good but overall it was OK...obviously it's huge but I prefer the Kenyan savannas.
 
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very cool

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Where da safari hat at?
 
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damn, nice pics. I sometimes watch the live stream of this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV6...hZcIX9JVJ3dCXQ

which is pretty cool - they live stream from the back of a safari jeep and since its (mostly) a private reserve, they can go anywhere. They also livestream from Kenya sometimes - especially during the great migration

(remember when we all watched that Africa Webcam at the watering hole???)

I've been thinking about planning a safari type vacation soon
 
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I love the pics, but not for nothin... on my list of "One Thousand Things To Do", I think "go to Africa, get dysentery, have wife raped, get beheaded by bushmen" really isn't ranking up there
 
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itt scared boomers travel 4 days for a safe space vacation to eat what they would eat at home
 
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here's my wife in a safari hat taxi



the places we went were very safe and had many other tourists
 
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Nice pics! Looks like you saw some good stuff

Which private camps did you go to? We went to the lower sabie area in Kruger, the sightings were good but overall it was OK...obviously it's huge but I prefer the Kenyan savannas.
We must have been close by in Kruger. Likimbi is our camp which is near the south river. We stayed at a few different Kwando camps in Botswana.

Likimbi had wifi and air conditioning. Botswana had neither... though we lucked out on weather. Also Botswana hadn't had their first rain of the season until our last full day there. That night there were a million bugs (compared to very few before). I think I had two mosquito bites in the 3 week trip.
 
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I like the little bird between the water buffalo's horns.
 
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