Advice needed on timeframe for Southern Africa route
Hi all,
We're planning a Southern Africa bike trip, South Africa (Cape Town), Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, Moz., and back. Plan is to leave sometime around Dec. and travel on something around 600cc.
We did a similar trip through West Africa and found that we didn't leave ourselves enough time to really take in the countries we travelled through. Learning from that experience, I'd like to allocate more time to see (and enjoy) the sites along the way. E.g., Will skip the safariing, as both of us have been already, but would love to save time for: Fish River Canyon, Namibian desert, Okavango Delta in Bots., Victoria Falls, few days of diving at Lake Malawi, couple of beach days and maybe a day of diving in Moz., etc.
Anybody have experience on this route? Suggestions would be much appreciated, given what I've mentioned above. Spitballing, I would say that two months might be reasonable. But I really don't know...
It we're just taking travel time into account, is one month too little? Seems logical to figure out how long it would take to travel this distance and then work outwards.
Thank you kindly in advance for your help. Look forward to hearing from you.
Dariusz
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