If you have a budget for this type of trip, Africa is awesome.I have always felt kind of bad that Africa is so underrepresented in each edition of the world's cheapest destinations, but despite the widespread poverty, it is not much of a deal if you don't want to live like a local. Or do nothing. I had a wonderful time once on a press trip to South Africa and Botswana, but if I had to put to travel on a credit card that I would probably still paying it off five years later.
One of the two African countries I include (Morocco), I have seen striking from the next edition in 2012.
Yesterday I had an e-mail exchange with Marie javins, a person who wrote a book about travelling from Cape Town to Cairo called Stalking wild DIK-DIK. She recently returned to the continent to go through again and I asked her what she would find price-wise. All the contenders to replace Morocco? The answer was not beautiful.
Delete Marie!
"Has Just gone through Africa, I learned a lesson hard if the current value of the US dollar. Last time i was in Namibia and South Africa, prices were quite good, and the time before that, they were an unbelievable bargain. This time, they were priced about the same as at home. Not a bargain at all.
Zimbabwe may be good business, but nobody wants to go there right now.
Zambia is valuable but not cheap anymore either. You get great stuff for your money, as well as lion walks and helicopter rides, but great value is not cheap.
Kenya and Tanzania has some pretty good hotel deals but the problems of these countries is that the fees as National Park destroy your value for money.
How much is this observation worth to you?Leaving Uganda and Rwanda, but it is difficult to say Uganda is good value when gorilla fees are $ 500 +. But national park fees are reasonable in relation to its neighbours.
And then there are a bunch of sites your readers don't want to go, Sudan, Ethiopia, Chad, car.
On the West Coast, Angola and Congo is just plain old obscenely prices. Nigeria are lucicrously expensive. Cameroon is not so bad. Gabon rips you off blind for national parks and then gives you a few monkeys.
The Gambia is okay but it is UK-£ oriented. Everywhere above is dedicated to the euro.
The euro dominates the West African market and it was a painful thing to spot. RAND used to be but understated (and the southern countries in oen way or another all reflect coincidence) in the same way as Australia var. But these currencies have done well in recent years.
I don't know if you really can use Madagascar flights is almost impossible for human beings. But I was shocked at the great value the. hotel for $ 10-20, shared taxi for $ 6, really really great value for independent travelers. "
So there you have it. Either come from a country where you gain lots of euros, or find a way to get to Madagascar.
If someone wants to pipe in with tales of $ 30 per day Africa trip that was actually funny, I'm all ears. Fill in a comment below!
Check out Marie Javins perceptive travel Bolivia articles and Antarctica. See more MarieJavins.comon.
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