@JHT
The change is the fact. Which we have to accept.
Has America changed in last 100 years?
Has Europe changed in last 100 years?
Has Asia changed in last 100 years?
So, has Africa. One of most colorful posts on this topic is one of
@One Day...
But, what a "wild place" means to you?
I hunted "tame" farm land of Namibia. To get to the camp, it took few hours by car on gravel road.
But, leopard is even there wild, and smart, and very much considered Dangerous game.
We met black mamba there, and I dont think, the snake is any more tame there, then anywhere else, or is anyones "pet".
But, yes, if you really want to get the taste of wilderness, first country to visit will be Zimbabwe, to my theoretical understandanding, and you have made a good choice in general terms. Zimbabwe is also on my long term list, for same reasons, and also to hunt buffalo. After Zimbabwe, true wilderness, in my theoretcial reasearch might still be found in Tanzania, and rain forests of central Africa, Caprivi, and number of other places. Zim, is however first, and most achiavable stop.
But modern safari in wilderness will be organised in different way, from how it was organised in golden era of safari, as One day has described.