The Itinerary Southern Africa itineraries
Day-by-day routes through Southern Africa, each 18 days — with what every trip actually costs.
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Planning a trip to Southern Africa
Pulled from the route below — so it says what it does, not what a brochure would.
When to go
May–Oct — the months this route recommends.
How long you need
Every route here runs 18 days.
What it costs
≈ AED 1,100 per person per day. Beds, food, getting around and things to do — costed line by line in each guide, not estimated from a daily rate.
Where these routes go: Cape Town · Fish River Canyon · Sossusvlei · Swakopmund · Etosha · Chobe.
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Best for: The self-drive circuit, which is a different trip from a fly-in camp
Southern Africa in 18 days: Cape Town, Sossusvlei, Etosha and the Okavango by road
Cape Town → the Garden Route → Fish River Canyon → Sossusvlei → Swakopmund → Etosha → the Okavango → Chobe
Three countries in one vehicle: a city under a flat mountain, the highest dunes on earth, a salt pan you can see from space, and a delta that floods when Angola's rain arrives six months late — driven rather than flown, on gravel, with a rooftop tent.
Going somewhere near Southern Africa?
Africa has more to choose from, or tell us the dates and we'll shape a plan around them.