<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ebell:
...1. What's the best way to keep assessed of the safety situation in places like Johannesburg and Victoria Falls area,...but Africa does have me a little wary.</font>
I visted J'burg, Victoria Falls, Nairobi & Parks in Tanzania for 3 weeks last month with my family. Stayed at the Victoia Falls hotel and it there must not have been more than a dozen guests there. It has a great view of the bridge and is walking distance from the Falls. However the short walk to the Falls, the Bridge, and the gorge made us nervous as there were a lot of unemployed local youths hanging around waiting to haggle with hotel guest. Local security guards walked with us to make sure we did not run into trouble. The Victoria Falls hotel is very very expensive and they did not give a discount even with such a low occupancy.
[QUOTE}2. Any advice for visiting Victoria Falls? I was thinking of flying JNB-VFA and then staying... well, somewhere, I'm not sure where. That's the issue.[/QUOTE]
We took the morning SA flight to VFA and returned three days later on returning on the afternoon flight. If you have Delta miles you can use them for the SA flights to VFA. The hotels can arrange for the airport pickup. The Victoria Falls hotel is very very expensive but there are two other hotels right next door. I forget their names but if you really want the names drop me an email and I'll find out.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">3. I've set aside 5 days in Johannesburg for a safari somewhere in or around Kruger. </font>
For such a short stay Kruger would be a good bet. For longer stays I'd venture into Tanzania and/or Kenya.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">4. What are the BA/Comair intra-Africa flights like?
Did not use them. We found the service on the SA flights to be quite good. I burned up some Delta miles to fly the four of us in Business Class to Victoria Falls and then some more miles to fly to Nairobi.
[This message has been edited by ROW2Aisle (edited 07-07-2003).]