Currency- What Is Your Safari Worth?

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09 May 2004, 04:38

Aspen Hill Adventures

Currency- What Is Your Safari Worth?

I was looking over the exchange rates this morning and thought I would post the current rates for many of our favorite African hunting destinations:

1 USD = 4.93707 BWP (Botswana Pula)
1 USD = 23,150.00 MZM (Mozambique Meticais)
1 USD = 6.86002 NAD (Namibia Dollars)
1 USD = 6.86002 ZAR (South African Rand)
1 USD = 1,114.33 TZS (Tanzania Shilling)
1 USD = 4,770.00 ZMK (Zambia Kwacha)
1 USD = 5,099.50 ZWD (Zimbabwe Dollars)

If anyone wants to keep track then bookmark this currency converter website.

09 May 2004, 04:46

Steve Richards

Outside of the rand, are any of these currencies worth anything outside the borders of the issuing country?

09 May 2004, 05:22

T.Carr

The Rand needs to be about 8-8.5 per dollar. The weak dollar is a real problem for travel to Africa or Europe.

Regards,

Terry

09 May 2004, 05:51

SnakeLover

I am hoping the most recent economic news and will lead to a rise in the dollar against the rand. The news this past week helped, as I saw it actually above 7-1 on Friday. I don't think 8-1 rates will be seen until August at best, by which time the Fed here will take action and increase interest rates.

09 May 2004, 05:56

RSEK

Thankfully, the prices that I recieved for my hunt were in USD. If I had been quoted prices in Euro's it would have been bad news. The decline of the dollar is really a burden on US travellers abroad.

10 May 2004, 02:57

NitroX

Quote:

Outside of the rand, are any of these currencies worth anything outside the borders of the issuing country?

The Bostwana Pula is a hard currency (well hard for Africa) with the Botswana economy being stronger than South Africas.

10 May 2004, 05:30

Michael Robinson

What is my safari worth?

As the advertisements say: "Priceless."