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Travel & Safari Information
Travel document requirements
- Passport (Valid for 6 months after your return)
- Visa (please check with your travel agent, not required for people traveling on a US passport)
- US customs form 4457 registering your weapon in the US.
- SAP 520 form for the temporary importing of your firearm/s.
- Invitation letter from your hunting outfitter.
- Address, phone numbers for Lategan Safaris
- Medical records
- Travel Insurance
Airport Pick-up
Lategan Safaris pick-up clients at the Bloemfontein Airport, a 1 hr’s flight from O.R. Tambo Airport in Johannesburg which will be your port of entry into South Africa.
It is important that you let Lategan Safaris have your travel itinerary as soon as it is made available. This will help with planning and ensure that we are well prepared for your arrival. Your airport pick-up will be planned from your travel itinerary.
A Lategan Safaris representative will be at the Bloemfontein Airport to meet and greet you on the date and time of arrival. We will help you receive your luggage and firearm from the local security officer. It is a 2 hr’s drive to Lategan Safaris base lodge.
Temporary Firearm Import Permits
Your port of entry into South Africa will be O.R. Tambo Airport (Johannesburg). This is where you will clear customs before your short internal flight to Bloemfontein.
Hunters bringing in firearms will obtain their temporary import permit at this point. (This is why you need the Customs 4457 form, SAP 520, and letter of invitation from your outfitter.)
We suggest that hunters prepare these documents before arrival in JHB. Alternatively to insure a trouble-free arrival we suggest that you make use of a meet & greet service who will for a fee, obtain your temporary import permit for you prior to your arrival.
We suggest PHASA for this service. A Phasa representative will meet you in the SA Police office at O.R. Tambo (Johannesburg) Airport with your permit on your arrival. Please go to pre-issued permits on the Phasa website for further information. www.phasa.co.za
Insurance
While all possible precautions are taken to protect you against accident, sickness or other loss, no liability can be accepted in this regard. You are required to arrange your own personal, travel, all-risks hunting and medical insurance.
Payment
Balance of the daily fees and trophy fees are payable at the end of your safari. We regret that no personal cheques can be accepted, but we do accept, cash and credit cards (upon arrangement).
Export Permits
Government and the veterinary permits for exporting trophies will be arranged on your behalf, but you are required to ensure that you will be able to import trophies into your own county and that all CITIES permits are in order.
Health Precautions
The guide that accompanies you on your safari will carry a first aid kit. More sophisticated medical facilities are available within a radius of about 60 miles of our hunting area.
No inoculation or Malaria medicine is required to hunt or visit the Eastern Cape/ Freestate region.
Climate and Season
The Eastern Cape/Free State of South Africa is a healthy Malaria and Bilharzia free area. No precautions need to be taken.
Our cooler months of April-September, which incorporates our fall, winter and spring, are the main hunting months. Our moderate climate however does allow us to take hunters throughout the year.
In the warm summer month’s temperatures will vary from 55°f – 100°f (12˚c – 38˚c) in the heat of the day. The average day temperatures will be around 80°f (27˚c). During winter months, the temperature can drop below freezing at night or early morning, but warms up during the day to an average temperature of around 65°f (18˚c).
Important Documents
