Safari Planning
Step-by-step planning support.
- Travellers planning a multi-country trip
- Couples planning a honeymoon
- Families with school-age children
Most Greater Kruger trips are planned six to twelve months ahead. Peak season — June through October — is often sold out twelve to eighteen months ahead at the leading camps. This library walks through the planning process so you know what to expect from your first enquiry to the day you arrive.
We cover combining Kruger with Cape Town and the Cape Winelands, the Garden Route, Victoria Falls, and the broader Botswana and Zimbabwe circuit. Each combination guide covers realistic durations, internal flight options, transfer logistics, and the lodges that pair well together.
On the operational side, you'll find guides on what a tailored quote includes, deposit and payment structures, travel insurance, what your private guide does and doesn't do, and how Wanderer's concierge supports you throughout the trip.
Use these guides to set expectations before you contact us. Most of our happiest clients arrive with the planning library already read.
The Wanderer editorial team is a collective of safari specialists, private guides and luxury travel planners based in Johannesburg. Together they have planned and led more than two decades of Greater Kruger journeys.
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