Review: 10-Day Africa Safari Honeymoon, Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cape Town, Kruger National Park, Victoria Falls

We would do a few things differently if we could.  First, we would book different international flights.   The 8-9 hour layovers in London on both ends of the trip added a lot to our travel time.   We would try next time to fly from Las Vegas to  Atlanta, Atlanta to Cape Town versus Las Vegas to London, London to Johannesburg.  Also on the flight home I wasn't sure why we needed to fly from Cape Town to Johannesburg, then Johannesburg to London.  Couldn't we have taken a flight from Cape Town to London?  Seemed a bit round-about and added another 6+ hours to our travel time.  The flight themselves and the seats were fine (other than always being at the wing of the plane so our window seats were just of the wing).  

The second thing we would do differently is flip the trip itinerary a bit.  We started at Thornybush, then went to Zimbabwe, then ended in Cape Town.  The experience we had at Thornybush was so incredible and the private moments we had with animals were breathtaking, that by the time we went to Zimbabwe (and the day trip to Chobe in Botswana) we weren't so impressed by the elephants and other animals in the more populated and busy National Parks.  We would have rather started in Zimbabwe and done the popular National Parks there, and THEN gone to the private game reserve and had those more intimate moments with animals next.  Then ended in Cape Town.  We think this would have given us a much greater appreciation of the Private Reserve than we had while we were there.