Firstly the whole CV19 has been a terrible thing for people worldwide and we need to put our hobbies and interests in to context. However to many of us hunting is a big part of our lives and for some livelihoods. I am sure there are a number of us on this forum who hunt abroad and had booked hunts in 2020 that were cancelled/postponed. I paid a deposit on a three week hunt in Namibia back in March/April last year that we had to cancel when SA closed its borders with the U.K. (ironically we have now done that to then) We were hoping in the “Eat out to help out” period last year that we were coming out of restrictions and so Autumn 2020 looked on again and recontacted the reserve/outfitter, sadly second wave stopped all of that. I had hoped to get out there Autumn this year 2021 but with the SA strain of CV19 and the state that a number of African countries are in my hope for this year is fading. Assuming our vaccination programs continues on track by the back end of the year most of UK residents will be vaccinated but I doubt that many other countries will be at that stage, even some of the European ones. What are others thoughts on getting abroad to hunt
When Will We Be Hunting Abroad
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Namman
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I'm in the same boat having had my Namibia hunt cancelled last June.
I am now resigned to going , hopefully, in 2022
Stalker62
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I can't see anything happening until next year tbh. Covid is rife within SA but you will not see that shown anywhere.
I also see Air Namibia has gone into liquidation which after SAA is a blow to getting there with firearms.
I also see Air Namibia has gone into liquidation which after SAA is a blow to getting there with firearms.
Yes we are also sitting on business class return tickets with SAA who last year had to be baled out by the government so we nearly lost those as well. we went with SAA previous year and they did both legs, London-Johannesburg-Windhoek and they are still showing those flights. In reality I don’t see us getting back out there in 2021 despite Namibia saying it’s now “ Open for business” as long as you have had a test. For lots of the reserves and outfitters losing last year would have been a massive blow but to lose two years back to back will end it for some of them
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Namman
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How did you do that?
SAA wrote to me confirming the flight was canned. I asked them for a refund and they refused. I sent that email together with the receipts for my flight booking to my credit card co and requested a refund - frustration of contract to supply goods and service section 75 refund. Bit more form filling etc and a couple months later full refund credited to card
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Namman
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Thanks for that.
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Sadly paid for our return trip to Namibia with Debit card so could not do a section 75 claim. Note to self, never pay for holidays or flights with anything other than credit card
One of my Romanian mates told me today that we he has his second jab , he wont need to isolate when he flies here ??? Not seen anything on news etc re this .. he seems to think he has checked it out here with someone official ?
Yes didnt sound right to me either !
Jon P
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We had last May’s SA trip cancelled due to Covid -19, carried it over to May this year, booked tickets with BA a while back. Can’t see us getting there again this year either TBH. However some of my group are still being optimistic.
Mid 2022 at the very earliest for tourism to select parts of the world. Africa will not be on that list.
2024-25 before international leisure travel starts to look anything like it did before the pandemic.
Think I’m being ridiculous? How many of you would have believed me if I’d told you a year ago we’d still be in lockdown now...
2024-25 before international leisure travel starts to look anything like it did before the pandemic.
Think I’m being ridiculous? How many of you would have believed me if I’d told you a year ago we’d still be in lockdown now...
Government is essentially saying now that you book any holiday this year at your own risk, whether that is in UK or overseas. Since Covid will be a global problem realistically forever, I suspect that there will be new variants emerging all the time and therefore a red list of no-go countries.
The countries on that list will be the ones that have relatively ineffective public health care systems and I leave you to imagine which tier of development they fall into.
Europe and other developed countries? 2022 would be a reasonable estimate for "normal" holidays as we might remember them, apart from social distancing and masks still being required, as most of these countries will have vaccinated most of their vulnerable groups by then.
Lesser-developed countries? Covid still rife and potentially mutating more often. Forget it. Probably still bans on travelling there and certainly bans on coming back from there.
Probably a good time to apply for a job as a PH, so you absolutely have to go to work in (insert country of choice).
The countries on that list will be the ones that have relatively ineffective public health care systems and I leave you to imagine which tier of development they fall into.
Europe and other developed countries? 2022 would be a reasonable estimate for "normal" holidays as we might remember them, apart from social distancing and masks still being required, as most of these countries will have vaccinated most of their vulnerable groups by then.
Lesser-developed countries? Covid still rife and potentially mutating more often. Forget it. Probably still bans on travelling there and certainly bans on coming back from there.
Probably a good time to apply for a job as a PH, so you absolutely have to go to work in (insert country of choice).
KLM, Lufthansa and Ethiopian airlines are all good viable options for flying to Windhoek Namibia without going through O. R. Tambo Jo,burg. Their all firearms friendly also.
Stalker62
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Anything that avoids Jo.Burg gets my vote.
So far I’ve had the daughters wedding cancelled/postponed twice.But the worse thing is Africa put on hold until god knows and all the European trips cancelled.Glimmer of hope though wedding now cancelled going for registry office in the UK so quids in and we have a boar trip booked for the end of the year.
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