Taking on an African Safari

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Here are some suggestions and advice for getting the most out of your African Safari adventure:

• One of the best reasons to take an African Safari tour is to see some of the most unique and/or rare animals (like lions, elephants, cheetah, zebra, hippo, giraffe, buffalo, etc.) in their own environment – up-close and personal. Don’t be too shy to ask your guide to see if he or she can arrange for you to see the animals and the sites that you want to see. Remember that an African Safari should be about what you would like to do/see/experience!
  
  
• There is an extremely diverse means of transportation for any given safari tour. You can choose walking tours, off-roading tours with or without doors or roof (Pop-top-roof minivans are a good choice for some bigger groups of safari-goers, or the open 4 x 4 Land Cruisers with great visibility), you can take a small plane and gaze from your aerial view down at the Kalahari Desert in Botswana or fly along the coast of Namibia, or you could even find more unique means of transportation like a vintage World War II sidecar!
  
  
• Don’t think that families aren’t welcome on the safari! Plenty of safari tours offer extremely safe, closed vehicle adventure tours. Kruger National Park in South Africa, for example, offers a safe, luxury African Safari experience – the park even boasts a huge area specifically for guests from the U.S. and Canada.
  
  
• Remember also that Africa is not the only place you can have an exciting safari adventure. India also offers extremely varied safari experiences – in many places you can even hop on an elephant to see and experience the wild from a whole different (higher) perspective!
  
  

Take your family, take your friends, or take your significant other – an African Safari can be an extremely safe zoo-like trek through a national park or an up-close with lions and cheetahs kind of adrenaline-pumping adventure. Options abound for the who, what, where, and how of your African Safari – so when will you go?