| for a successful safari are simple; many tips miss | | | | bank account. If you spend a few nights at a |
| the basic points. Much advice is offered for the | | | | single camp or use several camps belonging to |
| successful safari forgets about the essential | | | | one organization they will usually give you a |
| truths. | | | | discount. |
| By far the most luxurious, convent and most | | | | Low season is a great time to have a safari; with |
| relaxing way to participate in a safari is by air. | | | | few tourists in the parks and accommodation. |
| The flying safari is the easiest and the most | | | | Low season in Tanzania is through the rainy |
| expensive way to go on safari. To simply fly into | | | | season; however it has been known to rain more |
| the Serengeti and have the car waiting for you, | | | | in the so called dry season than it has in the long |
| to be whisked away to you luxury tented camp, | | | | rains. Low season is an opportunity to have a |
| is what safari dreams are made from. | | | | luxury safari at a relatively low cost. Single room |
| The alternative is to be rocked and bounced | | | | supplements are often waved in low season. |
| around in your safari 4x4 for hours on end whilst | | | | The budget safari is not a good way to see the |
| [at times] fighting off hard biting tsetse flies. Going | | | | parks. With the operators who specialize in this be |
| on a safari can be hard and uncomfortable work. | | | | prepared for over crowded safari vehicles that |
| It is tiring to sit and bounce through the heat and | | | | often break down. The budget lodge safari should |
| dust. Does this put you off taking a safari? It | | | | be avoided at all costs. |
| shouldn’t; the euphoria far outweighs the | | | | The two-man tent camping [budget] safari is also |
| discomfort endured through the long day. | | | | a good way to experience Africa. It is not as |
| A much kept secret to the successful safari is to | | | | comfortable as the lodges but there are |
| do everything slowly. To avoid ‘safari | | | | campsites in all areas of the park. You can get |
| fatigue’ [where by day four you | | | | away from the madding crowd and not have to |
| can’t wait for it all to be over] take things | | | | pay the heavy charges of the tented camps that |
| slowly. Spending two or three days at each camp | | | | usually are in the secret areas of the parks. If |
| or lodge in the National Parks. To shoehorn what | | | | you are not prepared to pay the heavy cost of |
| you can into a short time frame is counter | | | | the luxury safari then the best alternative is at |
| productive unless your aim is simply to say I have | | | | the other end of the scale; basic camping. Try to |
| been there and done that. The slower you go on | | | | avoid joining a group and set departures; this is |
| safari the more your see, the closer you get to | | | | the soulless mass produced safari. Get your own |
| experiencing what the first explorers must have | | | | group together and plan an exciting itinerary with |
| felt. Itineraries I see now seem to be a whirlwind | | | | the help of a good, established tour operator. |
| tour of camps scattered across the national | | | | The more work you put into your safari, as in |
| parks. | | | | planning and researching, the more of a success |
| Try to go for camps that are out of the way, | | | | the whole experience will be. Do not rush into |
| off the beaten track and are intimate. The larger | | | | anything, think, plan and then go on your |
| lodges are not really adding to the safari | | | | adventure. It is not a time to be lazy when |
| experience. The small tented camps are ideal | | | | organizing your safari; the time to be lazy is whilst |
| although usually expensive. If you look around | | | | you are on safari. |
| there are small camps that do not empty the | | | | |