OAT travel to Southern Africa

You might not get many answers here since this site is mostly devote to Rick Steves tours.

I have a friend who raved about her OAT experience on safari in Africa. However, I don't know the name of her tour or where it went.

Thanks much! All information helps ☺️

I haven’t taken that one, but I have done five OAT trips all of which were very good. One was to South Africa last year (that particular itinerary is no longer offered). Our guide told us that Ultimate Africa is the most popular trip (in terms of numbers) of any of OAT’s trips, not just in Africa but anywhere, so considering that they have many, many trips all over the world I guess they’re doing something right with that trip.

You might not get many answers here since this site is mostly devote to Rick Steves tours.

Frank, there are a lot of people who frequent this forum who have take not only OAT tours, but other non-Rick Steves tours.

I am not sure South Africa is safe enough for me to go there.

If you are mainly interested in a safari, I strongly recommend Kenya and/or Tanzania. We did a wonderful safari in both countries during THE GREAT MIGRATION.

My Son and his friend went with us on the safari and had previously done a safari in S. Africa. They said that our safari in East Africa was way better than what they did in S. Africa and Zimbabue.

We used a local company, Good Earth Tours and they were great.

At least compare the cost of your OAT Safari with Good Earth. I know OAT is a good company, but compare prices.

Our safari was only a group of 4 persons and we had our own driver/guide and stayed in top ranked hotels and lodges.