Intrepid Travel
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Cape Town to Victoria Falls
My partner and I had already attempted to plan this route as independent travellers, but when we went into Trailfinders and found out that Intrepid already did it, for a similar price to what we'd budgeted, we booked it. It was an experience and an adventure as much as a holiday: 3000 miles in a truck, 17 nights camping, extraordinary landscape, all the African iconic mega-fauna, 40 degree days, dawns, sunsets and starry nights. Our guide, cook and driver were all charming. Our fellow travellers turned into family during the journey. There are negatives: as travellers from the northern hemisphere we found it impossible to ignore the appalling inequalities still arising from colonialism. But we Europeans need to see this and accept responsibility for what our countries and corporations have done to the African nations and people. There might be easier and more convenient ways to see this part of the world, but I suspect we would have missed out on some very important life lessons (and spent a lot more!). Thoroughly recommended.