If you're wondering how we decided on the itinerary, well...it takes a lot of reading, asking and guessing. I spent weeks reading up on the different parks in each country, mostly in travel guides and on internet forums, but also in old magazines. The budget obviously plays a big role in how far you can drive, where you can stay, and how long you can visit. At the end of the day, it was decided to do the trip in very early in the year in order to see the wildebeest hordes in the southern plains of the Serengeti, rather than at the Mara river-crossing. This time of the year is also lush and green, which is great for photography.
Today we had a very good look at the itinerary and decided to add an additional 10 days to the trip! It was felt that 60 days was just too short to cover the 14000-odd kilometers we plan to drive during the trip. The departure date will now be 20 January 2011 and we will still arrive back in Pretoria on the 31st of March 2011.We added a night in South Africa on the way to the Botswana border (Lephalale) and two more in the vicinity of the magical Magadigadi Pans. An extra day was added between Lusaka and North Luangwa due to our concerns with road quality. An extra day was also added between North Luangwa and Dar es Salaam for the same reason.
Two extra days were added between Selous and Arusha, along with an extra day in the vicinity of Arusha to allow us to see Mt. Kilimanjaro!
Finally we added one extra day between South Luangwa and Lower Zambezi, along with two more days down the shore of Lake Malawi, limiting the rush... Only one day was removed (at Mana Pools).
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