Anonymous wrote:Tanzania / South Africa or Namibia. Spend one week hiking Kilimanjaro. 5 days or so doing safari in Serengeti and Ngorongora Crater. Then several days in Zanzibar.
South Africa is fun as others have mentioned. Definitely do wine country and Hermanus is fun to see whales.
Namibia is another cool country. Spend a day in the capital then head out to their national parks (Sossusvlei, Etosha, Skeleton Coast).
Anonymous wrote:I need some help planning a family trip.
We’re planning to take some time off work for next year‘s summer break and take our 11 and 12-year old kids to experience a completely different environment.
We were initially thinking of either Japan or Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, or any combination of these countries.
But I’m really concerned about weather conditions in these regions in the peak of summer, as I don’t do well in heat and high humidity.
For those of you who have experience in these regions, how bad is it to be there in July-August?
Do you have any alternative ideas of where we could go where temperatures are milder but we still get an exotic non-western / non-English speaking experience?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:South Africa! It’ll be cool there at that time. You can do safari but also spend a good amount of time in Cape Town. I’d also recommend Grahamstown/Makhanda, which is an adorable college town. You can do the Garden Route, from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town, either driving yourself or being driven. The Wild Coast is also a very special place in South Africa that you’d have time for.
I cannot wait for my kids to be old enough for this trip— and have the time to do it properly.
Uhmmmm are you trying to put OP in danger?
South Africa is fine. All of us suggesting it on this thread have come back safe and sound. It’s an amazing country.
I’m not questioning you or disagreeing with you but I do wonder whether there are some countries that were previously okay for American tourists that may be less so with the total collapse of U.S. AID. I would imagine that the collapse of certain health infrastructure that we were helping support will increase the risk of instability and also probably animus against Americans.
Interesting, because the Africans that I’ve seen commenting are happy because they know that USAID is largely destabilizing.
This is total Trump propaganda. It's so thin you can see right through it.
Anonymous wrote:SE Asia is hot year long. The difference between July and January is more about rainy seasons which vary by region.
I wouldn’t dismiss that part of the world so quickly with that much time available.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:South Africa! It’ll be cool there at that time. You can do safari but also spend a good amount of time in Cape Town. I’d also recommend Grahamstown/Makhanda, which is an adorable college town. You can do the Garden Route, from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town, either driving yourself or being driven. The Wild Coast is also a very special place in South Africa that you’d have time for.
I cannot wait for my kids to be old enough for this trip— and have the time to do it properly.
Uhmmmm are you trying to put OP in danger?
South Africa is fine. All of us suggesting it on this thread have come back safe and sound. It’s an amazing country.
I’m not questioning you or disagreeing with you but I do wonder whether there are some countries that were previously okay for American tourists that may be less so with the total collapse of U.S. AID. I would imagine that the collapse of certain health infrastructure that we were helping support will increase the risk of instability and also probably animus against Americans.
Interesting, because the Africans that I’ve seen commenting are happy because they know that USAID is largely destabilizing.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Japan is a no it is super hot and super crowded it will not be fun.
Plus Japan is now debating on how they will handle Americans coming in and out given Trump. Yes this is factual.
We are going in May. We have been before love it.
If you do go scrub your social media and take burner phones. I am not over reacting.
Citation?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:South Africa! It’ll be cool there at that time. You can do safari but also spend a good amount of time in Cape Town. I’d also recommend Grahamstown/Makhanda, which is an adorable college town. You can do the Garden Route, from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town, either driving yourself or being driven. The Wild Coast is also a very special place in South Africa that you’d have time for.
I cannot wait for my kids to be old enough for this trip— and have the time to do it properly.
Uhmmmm are you trying to put OP in danger?
South Africa is fine. All of us suggesting it on this thread have come back safe and sound. It’s an amazing country.
I’m not questioning you or disagreeing with you but I do wonder whether there are some countries that were previously okay for American tourists that may be less so with the total collapse of U.S. AID. I would imagine that the collapse of certain health infrastructure that we were helping support will increase the risk of instability and also probably animus against Americans.