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Expeditions consist largely of travel. To paraphrase an old saying, it's not the destination but rather the journey to get there that should most appeal to your soul. To arrive at many of the destinations in this guide, you will use one or more of the following: commercial air travel, trains, boats, bush planes, off road vehicles, and/ or your feet. The type of transportation you use to reach your destination depends of course on the location you wish to reach, time constraints and your route of travel. A slow boat to China will get you there and might be very enjoyable ...if you're not in a hurry. This guide will help you explore the alternative means of "getting there".

HUBS
All countries, states, and provinces have airlines hubs from which your expedition
will begin.

In Alaska, the main Hub for SouthCentral, West and SouthWest Alaska is Anchorage. All major airlines have flights to Anchorage. For the Interior and the Arctic, the Hub is Fairbanks. For SouthEast Alaska, the Hub can be in Ketchikan, Juneau, or Sitka.

In all other states, it is invariably the largest city in the area you wish to explore which has direct flights from country wide Hubs (Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, etcetera depending on the airline you wish to use).

In South Africa, the Hub is Johanesburg and it is frequently the Hub for regional
flights to other countries in Southern Africa such as Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and Tanzania.

REGIONAL HUBS

Most regional Hubs are within individual countries, with the exception of sparsely populated countries or provinces where one Hub may serve several countries or provinces. For example, Johanesburg serves as a Hub for all the countries in the Southern part of Africa (in addition to the country of South Africa). By way of further illustration, if you were going on safari to the Okavanga Delta of Botswana from the East Coast of the United States. You would should probably try to book a flight from NYC direct to Johanesburg, where you would pick up a regional flight to Maun, Botswana. From there you would have to charter a private bush plane (or your safari company will charter one for you if they don't have their own) to fly you into a dirt strip fairly close to your camp. Accordingly, the primary Hub is Johanesburg and the regional Hub is Maun. The trick, of course, is finding an airline carrier that you like that actually services the primary Hub, if not also the regional Hub.

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