Actually, South Africa isn't as expensive as you might think, being one
of the few countries with a reasonably favorable dollar exchange rate.
It's also not as expensive to fly there as you might expect - my wife
and I return to visit family over Christmas quite often. You could do
it from the east coast for around $1,200.

The soaring will definitely be better than anywhere in the northern
hemisphere at that time.

Mike

On Dec 7, 11:21 am, "flying_monkey"
wrote:
Peter Wyld wrote:
given the subject, I thought you would be talking about
http://www.soaring-safaris.com/!!

It would give you the answer to your question.I've seen that site before, sounds like fantastic soaring there. But I
guess I wasn't taking the idea of a sarari that literally. Let's see,
at least $3k airfare, probably 500 for a weeks lodging, and we haven't
even gotten to glider rental and tows yet. I don't think that's within
the budget I had in mind.

Thanks, anyway,
Ed