Windhoek; Etosha National Park; Skeleton Coast; Swakopmund; Kalahari Desert; Namib Rand Nature Reserve.
ZIMBABWE
Hwange and Mani Pools national parks; Lake Kariba; Eastern Highlands; Victoria Falls (also accessed from Zambia); swimming with the penguins at Boulders Beach at sunset, then drinking champagne
ACCOMMODATION
South Africa,
South Africa has some of the finest hotels in the region, including gems such as the Mount Nelson, the Cape Grace and The Bay m Cape Town, the Plettenberg, Hunter’s Country House and the Eight Bells Mountain Inn out along the Garden Route. Accommodation also includes motels, guest houses, beach resorts, self-catering cottages, flats, bungalows, thatched huts (rondevels) in the game parks, caravan and camp sites.
ACCOMMODATION IN BOTSWANA
In Botswana, the capital, Gaborone, and regional centres have good hotels and guest houses, and there are excellent - if expensive game lodges and tented safari camps in national parks and game reserves, plus basic camp sites.
ACCOMMOATION IN NAMIBIA
Namibia offers quality hotels In Windhoek and Swakopmund, and high standard lodges and camp sites in national parks and game reserves
ACCOMMODATION IN ZIMBABWE
The country has five-star hotels, tented camps, safari lodges, caravan and camp sites.
GETTING THERE
By air
SAA has an extensive domestic and regional network based on Johannesburg and Cape Town, including services to Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
British Airways’ franchise partner Germain also serves a range of internal destinations from its Johannesburg hub.
Operators usually link destinations in Botswana by light aircraft and travel between the main centres, in Namibia is by air.
By car
Car rental is popular and inexpensive in South Africa, there are plans to build more highways In Botswana and Zimbabwe has good road links to comet destinations.
By rail
In South Africa, an excellent rail system connects the major cities and work is underway on upgrading the railways in Botswana