Weather in June, we have booked An Elegant Adventure for our Anniversary
Can someone tell me what to expect weather wise in June? Additionally what to bring clothing in the way of clothing for dinner in the hotels? Also can you book a hot air balloon ride on this trip? This is our first time to Africa so any great tips are welcome.
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Look at Weatherspark for a very comprehensive idea of the usual weather.
For the safari part of the tour most people just wear Safari clothes for dinner, long sleeves and pants for mosquito protection.
For the hotels in the cities you can be more dressy.
I don’t recall you would have time to find a balloon trip and anyway, you have to get up about 4am for those. A better suggestion is to book a scenic plane or helicopter ride over Victoria Falls.
It’s really worth looking up previous posts about this tour. It’s changed since I took it years ago.
Robert, Happy Anniversary! British is right. This is a very popular tour, and there have been many helpful reviews of it posted on this forum. Do a search, and I think all of your questions will be answered. I do recommend getting to Cape Town a day early and going to Robben Island which is not included in your tour. Save the hot air balloon for your next African trip to Kenya and Tanzania. Once you experience Africa you will want to return. Safari njema!
We were there in early June and needed coats, hats, gloves for the early morning safaris. Then it warms up during the day! They provided hot water bottles on the jeeps for the morning excursions.
Having just completed this tour, I took the option of a helicopter ride over Victoria Falls. It was great. For $35 the helicopter company offers you a somewhat custom video of the experience ( a lot of stock footage merged with shots of all the people that are on your helicopter taken at different points during the experience ).
There were no ballon ride options, similar to the balloon ride provided as part of the Classic Safari tour in East Africa (at least it was provided in 2015 when I did that tour).
From a safari perspective, I would categorize this tour as a ‘boutique’ safari experience compared to the experience in East Africa. By that I mean on this tour you rarely see any safari vehicles outside of the vehicles for your tour, whereas in East Africa sometimes you can see 10-15 safari vehicles at a given location. In addition, on this tour more time was spent looking for animals, than in East Africa, perhaps because the terrain/vegetation allowed more coverage for the animals than in East Africa. It seems like the number of animals seen is much greater in East Africa. That said, we saw the African Big Five in both locations.
One thing for sure you will have some unique and personal experiences that you will remember forever.
Nothing more than business casual is required in the hotels.
The camps on Elegant South Africa are private reserves so they know exactly what animals they have on the reserve as it is all fenced in. We used to watch a TV drama show called Wild at Heart some years ago now. It was from that that we learned that the reserves trade and exchange their animals when they have excess or need more. Yes, this tour, you definitely have to seek out the animals. It’s a great tour!