Does anyone have experience with self driving safari in Botswana? I’m planning to go with friends next year and assumed for safety you’d need to go with a tour group. One of our friends has suggested this option.
You hire your own car and drive yourself from lodge to lodge and a guide from the lodge takes you out on safari. This would offer a lot more flexibility which would be useful.
Any thoughts?
Susan
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I flew by small planes to the bush camps, driving would have required hours and extra gas cans. J
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Having been in Botswana last September, I have to say that many of the "roads" were deep sand. Of course, they were in a deep drought, so that could have contributed. But I would not have wanted to be driving in the places we visited. If you can determine that you'll be on paved roads or at least well-traveled gravel roads, then maybe...