{"id":3581,"date":"2015-06-30T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2015-06-30T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:00:55","slug":"traveltuesday-tip-to-tour-or-not-to-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/30\/traveltuesday-tip-to-tour-or-not-to-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"#TravelTuesday tip: To tour or not to tour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s\u00a0a familiar question in the world of travel, but if you\u2019re making long term travel plans taking your foot of the gas for a while and leaving all the logistics down to a tour leader could be a wise idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?attachment_id=3447\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3447\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3447\" alt=\"DSC_1967\" src=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC_1967.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kristin Addis, a former\u00a0Los Angeles-based investment banker and\u00a0Editor of Be My Travel Muse, comments \u201c After eight years I chose to truck it around Africa for 34 days.\u00a0Generally everything I do is solo and independent. I don\u2019t like tours and am really not a fan of excessive hand-holding. What I liked about this overland safari was that it wasn\u2019t an air conditioned &#8220;fancy resort&#8221; fake experience. It would involve pitching tents, avoiding scorpions, running barefoot in deserts, and seeing lions from a big truck as we powered through Southern and Eastern Africa.\u00a0In short, it was an unexpectedly sublime\u00a0adventure with a\u00a0few awesome\u00a020-something girls and guys. I got along with each person, and honestly loved finally letting someone else do the planning for a while. As you may have noticed, solo travel was starting to ware on me\u00a0and I needed a little break.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"\/blog\/?attachment_id=2018\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2018\" alt=\"DSC00273\" src=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC00273.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kristin travelled on our\u00a0<a title=\"Cape Town to Zanzibar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acacia-africa.com\/acacia_overland\/cape_town_to_zanzibar_.php\" target=\"_blank\"><b>35 day Cape Town to Zanzibar<\/b><\/a>\u00a0camping overland itinerary, bouldering at Spitzkoppe, mokoro safaris in the Okavango Delta and game drives in the Etosha National Park included in the itinerary.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s\u00a0a familiar question in the world of travel, but if you\u2019re making long term travel plans 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