A year on, I have travelled to Jordan and Italy with Just You and done a three week trip (with another company) with my son, of Nepal and India. Definitely got the taste and booked for South Africa with Vic Falls early next year and plans on The Silk Road trip and South America ( and is there time in 2015 to go back to Italy??)

If you are reading this Forum, as I was a year ago, wondering if you would have the courage to book ... take the advice of the rest of the Forum posters and go for it ... ... you won't regret it!

Oh ... and advice about South Africa trip? Or: are you going?? :cool:

Keep travelling,

Bob

Cindy

Hi Mary, well done! Like you I've caught the travel bug and I hope you have many happy years of travelling ahead of you. If you look at the Share Your Travel Tips forum and scroll down a couple of pages, you'll come across my S Africa tips - the best holiday I've ever done!

Keep travelling,

Bob

Thank-you ... have found, read, taken not of!

Well done Mary, you have travelled many miles in the last year..that's the only problem once you get the travel bug you can't stop.

Cindy

Really hoping that it is a bug with no cure!!

I can confirm that it is really a bug with no cure!!

Jaya

If not: see you in Heathrow in two weeks time!

Excited? You bet I am!!

This is one trip I would love to do, hopefully next year. Do write a review of your trip as it will be nice to know what you thought of it. Are you also doing the Zambia add on?

Have a wonderful time. Safe travels.

Jaya

Hi Mary Dee

This is one trip I would love to do, hopefully next year. Do write a review of your trip as it will be nice to know what you thought of it. Are you also doing the Zambia add on?

Have a wonderful time. Safe travels.

Jaya

Yes ... absolutely ... and the optional excursion into Botswana. You do need to have the Yello Fever jab (or an exemption certificate) to travel back from Zambia to Jo'berg for the filght home ... and I am glad that I got that out of the way a few weeks ago. Otherwise ... cannot wait to get going. (But hope the snow does ... I do want to get to Heathrow!!)

Dont forget to write a review upon your return!

Maek

What was the weather like in February? I am seriously considering this trip for next year and am just wondering what is the best time to go.

Jaya

To think that only a year ago I was almost to nervous to post, sure I would not get on the plane! New to overseas travel, new to solo travel and quaking!!

A year on, I have travelled to Jordan and Italy with Just You and done a three week trip (with another company) with my son, of Nepal and India. Definitely got the taste and booked for South Africa with Vic Falls early next year and plans on The Silk Road trip and South America ( and is there time in 2015 to go back to Italy??)

If you are reading this Forum, as I was a year ago, wondering if you would have the courage to book ... take the advice of the rest of the Forum posters and go for it ... ... you won't regret it!

Oh ... and advice about South Africa trip? Or: are you going?? :cool:

I booked this trip two days ago and am so looking forward to it. However this is my first solo so am a little apprehensive, but there are so many positive comments from other travellers I feel I have made the right decision.

I look forward to meeting you.

Pauline

This is my first post so hope I am doing it right!!

Pauline

You will love it!

But sadly .... you and I won't meet .... I went in 2015 and you are going in 2016???

Me? I'm off to Chile, Argentina and Brazil. We can wave across the South Atlantic!

Rules have changed and Zambia is no longer on the list of high risk countries for Yellow Fever so you do not need a vaccine, at the moment, when travelling from Zambia to South Africa. I personally can no longer have live injections (Yellow Fever is a live injection) so I did some research. Also, injection is not recommended for those over the age of 60 and an exemption letter from your GP is enough where the jab is required. I had yellow fever jab in 1969 when travelling from Kenya to India and still have got the certificate, but obviously it is no longer valid!

Jaya