How to Plan Your Africa Trip in 10 Steps

So You Want to Go to Africa
FTUA DCA 2016
Stefan Krasowski
Rapid Travel Chai

I lived in China for 8 years
I work in international business
I plan obsessively
I travel fast
I come back exhausted
My wife is the opposite
©Stefan Krasowski, All Rights Reserved
Who am I?

184/193 UN countries
273/325 Travelers’ Century Club countries
Where have I traveled?

How to get a handle on Africa

Africa is reeeaaaaally big

UN regions of Africa

Colonies in Africa, 1936
Image by Project Truman

Travel regions of Africa
Image by Stefan Fusson

Africa travel is vastly improved

and tremendous fun

Tips and 10 Trips

Airlines

African airlines are pretty good

ASKY is the future, but shaky now

5th freedom flights

A 12-minute Dreamliner flight

Tickets

skyscanner to search

skyscanner finds obscure OTAs

Here’s why skyscanner

Why you need obscure OTAs

Citi ThankYou can save the day
Chase, US Bank, etc. work, too

Awards

Taxes can negate airline awards
Kenyan: US Bank 20k vs Delta 20k + $138

Ethiopian award space is great

ADD int’l transit free hotel, no visa

Ethiopians have a sense of humor

Accra transit visa and coping

Holiday Inn Accra 20k, free shuttle

Royal Air Maroc flight times suck

Casablanca transit hotel

Book United stopovers by Oct 5!

Sao Tome & Principe

Kenya

The Vatican

Terceira, Azores

Brussels

Radisson Red has a
walk-in customer problem

That one-way was 40k

See Ethiopia by connections

Because

Because because

Because because because

United has Istanbul in Europe
Africa to Africa via IST = 60k in economy

Royal Air Maroc awards
Report: Royal Air Maroc to join Avios

Story time

Sleeping

Marriott Protea Hotels for awards

Club Carlson for tough markets

Richard Branson for safari

or Fairmont certs

Booking.com for local hotels

Hotels.com 10 nights = 1 free night

Grab bag of tips

You need yellow fever vaccination

Yeah, visas are a hassle

East and West multi-country visas

Bradt Guides & pre-2011 LPs

Airline alliance status really helps

Priority Pass is clutch, too

Here’s how to name a wifi network

You’ll be offline, use maps.me

Try soursop

Chinese restaurants for variety

How to get an upgrade

10 trips

But first, don’t make the safari
‘dream trip’ mistake

The safari ‘dream trip’ mistake

1. Victoria Falls + Botswana Safari

Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls Hotel or Royal Livingstone

Safari day trip to Chobe National Park

BA awards on Comair

2. South Africa to Namibia

Etosha National Park

Cape Cross seals

Sand dunes

New Qatar flight this fall

3. Lemurs and Pate

Madagascar

French living on a budget

Tana the capital

SkyTeam to TNR

4. Gorillas, Volcanoes, Genocide

Horror

Virunga National Park

World’s largest lava lake

The gorillas

5. Serengeti, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar

Next year!

I’ve been to Zanzibar, though

Stone Town

6. Rome, Star Wars, Souqs

Morocco

Algeria

Tunisia

FlyingBlue North Africa in Europe
(except Egypt)

7. Egypt

Mt Sinai

Alexandria

El-Alamein

8. The French West

Adibjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Togo coffee country

Benin Point of No Return

9. Sudan

Early pyramids

Always a cup of tea

I’ll have the works

10. Horn of Africa

Lac Assal, Djibouti

Lac Abbe, Djibouti

Somaliland

flyDubai for the Horn

All the ones I neglected

Angola

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cabinda (Angola)

Cameroon

Canary Islands

Cabo Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Republic of Congo

Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)

Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni)

Eritrea

Gabon

Gambia

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Lesotho

Libya

Mali

Malawi

Morocco, Spanish (Ceuta)

Mozambique

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Somalia (Mogadishu)

South Africa

South Sudan

Swaziland

Uganda

Western Sahara

Thank you
stefan@rapidtravelchai.com
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How to Plan Your Africa Trip in 10 Steps

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