friendswoodmatt
AH veteran
Well— I finally got it all sorted. Next July the Wife and I will be in Africa. Thanks to all who responded to my threads asking questions. We are going on our first safari!
Itinerary is as follows:
Fly from Houston on Qatar to Doha, short layover and from Doha to Johannesburg, (Thanks Lori at travel express for the great deal) We opted for the Q-suites business class as I am not a great flyer and the idea of a lay flat bed— where hopefully I can sleep -was super appealing- and to be honest a neccessity— the wife and I will be able to lay our chairs flat and it makes into one big (well reasonably) for both of us on the Houston to Doha leg. It should be cool. The Doha to Johannesburg leg is a normal seat as they don’t have the same aircraft.
We get in super early in the morning and then fly to Port Elizabeth and arrive noonish. We will be met by the first PH there — Wolma Kemp of Africa Anyway Safaris— we will spend the next 14 days with Kemp and his family — towards the last of our trip our friends who live next to us here in Texas will join our camp— they have hunted with Kempy and his family numerous times and made the introduction. I met many of the board sponsors at the DSC show in 2020, but ultimately my wife (who is shooting a Sable) said that she felt most comfortable with Kemp as her PH, so we booked with him.
We have a decent list of stuff to take with Kemp, and if time permits, we are going to the Elephant park as well as a winery or two.
After this 14 days is up— we are flying from Port Elizabeth to Polokwane to hunt and sightsee with another friend at Thaba-Tala in All Days, Limpopo. Johan came to my place in the Texas hill country to hunt free range axis deer and was a delight to hunt with, and invited us to his house to return the favor.
So we have 14 days at his concession and his family ranch. the first 6 days we will be hunting Kudu and other stuff, then we are driving to Victoria falls with he and his partner, we are going to stay at the Victoria falls hotel for 3 days and do the falls sightseeing, then we go to Chobe river lodge to sightsee and tiger fish for a couple days, then back in the truck and we go to kruger — we are touring kruger and driving south for the next 3 days to see the park the goal here is to see the big five as well and checking a few of the other boxes for the park like Gods window etc. . We will be staying at different tent camps on the way south so that we may work our way back to the airport, we then get back onto Qatar and fly home.
Should be 17-19 days hunting and then 9-11 days sightseeing. Countries will be South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique I think.
I am hoping I havent forgotten anything and I tried to be reasonable about what I could cram into our first safari— I hope I havent missed any “gotta see its” but if I did and this trip lives up to the hype— Ill go back and can check those boxes then.
I am excited, hopefully time will pass quickly before now and then.
Itinerary is as follows:
Fly from Houston on Qatar to Doha, short layover and from Doha to Johannesburg, (Thanks Lori at travel express for the great deal) We opted for the Q-suites business class as I am not a great flyer and the idea of a lay flat bed— where hopefully I can sleep -was super appealing- and to be honest a neccessity— the wife and I will be able to lay our chairs flat and it makes into one big (well reasonably) for both of us on the Houston to Doha leg. It should be cool. The Doha to Johannesburg leg is a normal seat as they don’t have the same aircraft.
We get in super early in the morning and then fly to Port Elizabeth and arrive noonish. We will be met by the first PH there — Wolma Kemp of Africa Anyway Safaris— we will spend the next 14 days with Kemp and his family — towards the last of our trip our friends who live next to us here in Texas will join our camp— they have hunted with Kempy and his family numerous times and made the introduction. I met many of the board sponsors at the DSC show in 2020, but ultimately my wife (who is shooting a Sable) said that she felt most comfortable with Kemp as her PH, so we booked with him.
We have a decent list of stuff to take with Kemp, and if time permits, we are going to the Elephant park as well as a winery or two.
After this 14 days is up— we are flying from Port Elizabeth to Polokwane to hunt and sightsee with another friend at Thaba-Tala in All Days, Limpopo. Johan came to my place in the Texas hill country to hunt free range axis deer and was a delight to hunt with, and invited us to his house to return the favor.
So we have 14 days at his concession and his family ranch. the first 6 days we will be hunting Kudu and other stuff, then we are driving to Victoria falls with he and his partner, we are going to stay at the Victoria falls hotel for 3 days and do the falls sightseeing, then we go to Chobe river lodge to sightsee and tiger fish for a couple days, then back in the truck and we go to kruger — we are touring kruger and driving south for the next 3 days to see the park the goal here is to see the big five as well and checking a few of the other boxes for the park like Gods window etc. . We will be staying at different tent camps on the way south so that we may work our way back to the airport, we then get back onto Qatar and fly home.
Should be 17-19 days hunting and then 9-11 days sightseeing. Countries will be South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique I think.
I am hoping I havent forgotten anything and I tried to be reasonable about what I could cram into our first safari— I hope I havent missed any “gotta see its” but if I did and this trip lives up to the hype— Ill go back and can check those boxes then.
I am excited, hopefully time will pass quickly before now and then.
. Very best of luck— enjoy
