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Originally Posted by imcarthur
When it comes to vacations, if you have to ask: Is it safe? Then it usually isn't. For business, you can travel quickly & quietly & with security if necessary. But that is not a vacation. I do agree that an all-inclusive vacation changes the equation as long as you spend 100% of your time on their property.
Last year, when I started vacation research my wife said she was sick of cobblestones: i.e. Europe. We were thinking African safari & I had narrowed it down to a self-drive in Kruger. Fly in to Johannesburg, rent a car, drive to Kruger & spend a week in the in-park accommodation driving the massive park. Round it off with a deluxe hotel just outside the park at the tail end. And then maybe a two or three night stop in Cairo on the flight back. I had it 80% planned. Then Kenya had their recent problems in Central Africa. And Zimbabwe was always in the news - next door to SA. And I started to read about the very real crime problem in Johannesburg. Posters on the Kruger forum told me that you are safer inside the park with all of the wild animals roaming around, than you are outside of it. It gave me the heebies & I switched my focus back to more cobblestones. Living on the edge to me has zero appeal. We're going to Sicily. And Rome, again.
Ian
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I am not sure if it's still true, but at one point S.Africa had one of the highest rape rates on earth.