Dunno about the riding in some of the more northerly countries you mention, in my fairly limited experience Bots, Namibia and SA are really easy. Very low traffic densities, good, often immaculately surfaced roads and courteous drivers make for easy riding apart from some potholed stretches in some areas. The dirt roads in Namibia are a joy. Ran into a couple of German guys at the Namibian/SA Vioolsdrift border a couple of years back who did your proposed route in three weeks and they reckoned "no problems".

There's plenty to see- we passed several elephants by the side of main (trunk? arf!) roads in Botswana, huge numbers of Kudu, springboks, Zebra etc etc in Namibia and loony ostriches too- but as has been mentioned before some NPs won't let you in- eg we visited Balule Reserve in Kruger and dumped the bike for a couple of days and rented a 4x4, but you could stop at Kasane in Botswana (Chobe NP and easy access to Vic Falls) and see all the animals you want by taking excursions- most people there seem to fly in so don't have their own vehicles. If you stay at lodges near the major attractions you'll ahve no problems getting tours to see whatever you like.

We rarely arrived anywhere later than about 4 or 5pm even on long days (get up early!) partly cos I'm shit scared of riding after dark in that part of the world- animals everywhere, pissed up drivers etc etc.

I'm hardly a hardened overlander (4 fly rides to southern Africa so far), but if you want some info on basically easy African adventuring and if you are thinking of staying in lodges rather than rough camping maybe have a look at a couple of my RRs Noob in Namibia - ADVrider

and this one:A Quick Lap of Botswana (and a bit of Namibia and Zim) - ADVrider

PS you are planning exactly the trip I want to do...

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