Wildlife Odyssey (Victoria Falls, Chobe, Kruger, Capetown) in July 2025
Has anyone been on this tour lately? I've read the wonderful trip description posted by MotherOfPoodles from October 24 (thanks for the great info!). Wondering if anyone has been on this trip more recently, or if you're planning on going this summer.
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I got back May 13, 2025. It was fabulous! Very fast paced so we were pretty tired when we got back. Food was excellent, the game lodges 5 star, and the game drives never ceased to amaze. I got the most incredible pictures. Will be framing some to display in my house. We saw elephants galore, numerous lions (up close) including two rare white lions, zebras, giraffes, a leopard, water buffalo, mongoose, kudu, Impala, wildebeest, baboons, and much more.
It was warm during the day at the beginning, but got cooler as the trip progressed. The morning game drives in Ngala were quite cold, so if you're going this summer it will be chilly.
This trip does not disappoint. I have recommended it to so many people since we got back. You'll love it!
Quick question about the visa, I know you need it for Zimbabwe, and if traveling into South Africa you need 2 back to back blank pages for stamping. We are traveling to South Africa as a connection(leaving airport to hotel then back to airport) to fly to Victoria Falls. Since we will be entering and departing from South Africa twice, will we need 4 sets of back to back blank pages? Hope this makes sense. What are your thoughts? Thanks in advance.
I took the Zambia, Botswana, South Africa trip last September. I flew into Jo'burg and overnighted at the hotel there before going on to Zambia. Then it was back to SA for the last part of the tour. I'm trying to decode the stamps in my passport without much success. Best I can tell, I have one page with four quarter-sized stamps from SA.
This is what was in my Tauck Travel Docs last September and nearly caused me to get a new passport:
New rules at South Africa's airports require travelers that are transiting through or visiting
South Africa, to have four consecutive blank visa pages in your passport which lie side-by-side
when the passport is open (i.e. a left and a right-hand page).
No one on my trip had an issues with a lack of available pages.
The Zimbabwe visa is a sticker that does take an entire page.