Budget Choice Botswana

[stusik_i_sharik]

Given Botswana’s tourist attraction prices, we’ve been watching our budget closer than usual, though I still didn’t think it would have come to dumpster-diving. Well, I was wrong - we did end up at the city dump. Contemplating alternative access options to our next and last of Botswana’s overpriced national parks, we were driving through the

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[inostranka]

Интересно, сколько стоит вход в парк?

[stusik_i_sharik]

$20 pp a day, plus the car fee. All that on top of fuel (of which you spend a lot because of bad roads). And keep in mind that we're planning to visit over 100 parks on this trip...

[inostranka]

Yeah, but the car fee and fuel you had to pay with even just Shurik riding in by himself.
$20 is higher than the $10 or $20 per car National Park fee here, but that's because the parks are heavily subsidized by the government. I guess I've visited 10 or 20 national parks total in my life, so the costs don't seem too high ;) Plus I always feel good about paying for national parks - at least I know the money is being put to good use!

Are there truly 100 national parks in South Africa (I think there's less than 50 in the US)?

[stusik_i_sharik]

more then 100 :)
and the parks there don't look like the money is going to good use...

[pavlyuk]

а сколько стоит car fee? Его, я так понимаю, платишь независимо от количества человек в машине. И какие часы нахождения в парке, если заезжаешь на 1 день - какой крайний срок выезда?

На Берегу Скелетов нам кстати негр-привратник выписал билет на 4 человека, притом что к нему в кабинет зашло пятеро ). На выходе также на это не обратили внимание.