Yeah airfare is outrageous. I just paid $1k per ticket for basic coach to Vegas.
Glad I bought my Paris ticket a few months ago. LAX ā Amsterdam and Paris ā LAX, both non-stops, business class, $3300.
Iāve gotten in the habit of traveling before memorial or after Labor Day because of prices + avoiding rush of massive tourists.
I just booked a one way rental car for 8 days. $1500.
Our plane tickets from LA to Rome (direct), returning from Geneva to LA (via London) were $1300 each in coach. That seemed relatively reasonable to me.
Man I felt shitty about the $300 I spent round-trip non-stop coach from Prague to Istanbul until I heard how much some of you are spending.
I couldnāt get under $2k for coach on mine w/o some nasty stops and many many more hours. So I just said fuck it and spent the extra $1300 for business.
I canāt believe I flew one way direct to Delhi for $350 a month ago.
Flights home to Chicago from Pakistan are not looking pretty
Gotcha! Just curious, when youāre on a safari, how many hours a day are you spending in the jeep? I like to go out at sunrise/sunset but then what do you do the rest of the day, more safariing?!
My sample size is 1 - going in 2 - but generally the itinerary seems to be sunrise game drive for 3-3.5 hours and a sunset game drive for 2-3 hours. Time in the middle is for R&R back at the lodge/camp + lunch.
I think some places will offer bush walks or other activities in that time between drives.
Kruger park itself most people are self-driving so you could be out all day long if you really wanted, but I suspect most people follow a similar schedule since thatās when the animals are most active.
Wish I could have got business that cheap. It is highly in demand on the US - Australia route at the moment. My flights were like $US 1,630 but business would have been over 7 grand.
Yea the self driving in Kruger is kinda fun, definitely more of a crapshoot though! Some of the camps have animal sightings boards, so you might wanna check to see if yours does. Anyway, sounds like a sweet trip!
Iām the weirdo who would probably love just driving all around to look at the scenery as much or more than trying to see specific animals all day. Iāve been on one of those things in India where everyone had leopard or tiger fever, and would be disappointed when we didnāt see one, and I was just like look at all this other cool stuff.
Animal pictures rarely come out that good unless you have a gargantuan lens and are dedicated to spending hours sitting in one place waiting for them to do something interesting. With exceptions of course.
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Bringing up Kruger and taking photos brings this to mind
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Is there any prey animal that fights back as much as water buffalo? Elephants I guess.
Are elephants really a prey animal? I didnāt think anything fucked around with them. Maybe if there is a baby elephant off on itās own or something like that. I thought they normally stick together and even a bunch of lions is gonna think twice about going after a bunch of elephants.
thereās a rather famous planet earth (? I think) scene where a pack of lions goes after some elephants.
who won?
Hooray no more restrictions on travel to Turkey!
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Babies sometimes, same as water buffalo.