For the summary, see this page. I've previously announced these two new trips to those that are signed up for my workshop newsletter, so if you're interested at all, you don't want to dally, as early signups are already taking most of the available spaces.
I will say that, with workshops that cost this much this far out, you'll also want to budget for trip insurance (Lisa, who you'll register with, can give you details of a plan that we know from experience works well; we've had last minute health issues come up a few times over the decades I've been doing these workshops, and it sucks to be both sick and out of pocket with a big sum at the same time).
I'm excited about these new workshops. One is completely unique and I don't believe has been offered by any other instructor. The other is another refinement of a trip I know works really well, both for first timers as well as returning photographers. It was tough to keep the pricing from going completely bonkers. As I've noted elsewhere, the lodges in Botswana are all trying to make up for the pandemic, and most have raised their prices 200% or more in the past two years (and are still filling their beds). Fortunately, we have long term relationships with the ones we use, and have been able to talk them back to sanity somewhat.
Still, top level product, excellent access, and great guiding is now approaching US$1500/day on the ground in much of Africa. You can get lower cost excursions, but they won't be nearly as good as what we put together. For example, in Khwai this year, at the check-in gate we watched one "budget" tour limp in with two flat tires on their only vehicle, but that wasn't their biggest problem: their camp truck had broken down and they had no camp, nor did they have a backup plan for such situations. My team and I are proud of our long track record in getting you where you need to be with what you need to have when you need to be there. I'm not going to back off of quality trips with solid contingency plans. This year, for instance, we pre-scouted the Kalahari camps and decided two days prior to the trip to move everything, because if we did so we could catch the zebra migration, a very unique thing that people rarely see in Botswana because it happens mostly away from the traditional safari areas.
Yes, I've heard the folks asking for things more local. Mark Comon and I are talking about what we might be able to do about that together (Mark does a lot US workshops), but it's tough putting two schedules together.
