Cash on Safari

[Rare Breed]

Wearing these neck pouches, under a shirt might be okay. However, we use to see a bunch of expats wearing these on the outside while going to and from Angola. Nothing says "tourist" more, except maybe taking a piece of masking tape and writing the word "tourist" on it and placing one on your forehead and one on your back.

Regarding cash, don't tip locals with US small bills. Get some local currency for that. As others have mentioned, currency exchange places usually only deal in $100s, 50s, and 20s. When the new generation of US currency came out, the Angolans referred to it as "Big Heads." They wouldn't accept the older bills and they indeed had smaller pictures of dead presidents.

lol…being viewed as a tourist never bothers me…having to come get me to get my neck pouge is fine with me knowing it is safe

 

[randallhebert]

Anton and Wanda Esterhuizen from Estreux Safaris. It will be my first safari, so we are doing a combination hunt (6 days), tour/photo Damaraland/Etosha/Skeleton Coast (3 days), fishing/touring Swakopmund (3 days) for our anniversary.

We’re so stoked for this, I’m just about coming unhinged waiting...

It's a amazing trip.

 

[HankBuck]

I’ll ask my wife, most likely Amazon.
@HankBuck , it was tedious folding the $100’s, a $500 bill would be nice that’s for sure.
For my upcoming trip I’m going to wire a couple thousand to the outfitter to cover some trophy fees and such so I don’t have to take a lot of cash. This I normally do anyway.

@Hunt anything - I think you’re smart to do that and with Safari prices increasing “wiring money” ahead of time might be the only practical way to get a Cash-equivalent to the PH’s hands. The risk is that the PH has a lot of YOUR “extra money” in advance and you must Hope he refunds it promptly if you don’t “spend” all of it as anticipated….or must cancel your trip etc..