Sorry being late chiming in, but "Safari Costs" is one of my all time favorite topics, and I cannot resist adding (hopefully) something of value.
I have over a number of years compiled, and regularly updated, a database of Daily Rate and Trophy Fee costs as advertized on published Hunting Outfitter web sites. At the moment tere are 149 "variables" in the database, including things like the Hunting Outfitter company name, name of owners, date of pricelist, the actual URL and then a large number of trophy and non-trophy fees as published. My database now contains about 285 Hunting Outfitters from, mostly but not exclusively, South Africa.
Now it is easy to see that there is no logical way to post a 149 * 285 grid of costs and text in a readable format. But anyone really interested can simply send me an e-mail and I will reply with the summary statistics in a spreadsheet file attached.
Dick D and a few others show great insight into what the difference is between the cost vs. value for money spent on a safari. There is no cheap Safari! Very true words these!
In good hunting.
Andrew McLaren