How To Plan Safari Trips in Kenya : Planning a safari trip does not have to be stressful but gainful expectations. Below are five most considered tips you should ensure your Kenyan safari is worth a visit with unforgettable
Steps to follow;
Curate your itinerary
Get the timing right
Take the right camera
Choose the right tour operator
Get your paperwork in order
Curate Your Itinerary
When planning a trip to Kenya, it’s really important to be careful about what you want to do while you’re there!
There are quite number of things to do and see if you’re trying to do everything would mean a stressful experience, especially if you’re on a short trip. For that matter, we recommend picking one big ticket item and rolling with it.
For instance, a traveler wishing to view the Big five mammals ‘’elephants, leopard, buffalo and Rhinoceros’’ you need to travel during the dry season.
Kenya is also known as a great home to watch the great migration, which tend to happen every year from July to October, where millions of animal’s travels from Serengeti National Park Tanzania to Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve.
Your Kenya visit for safari should be properly planned in order to enjoy these beautiful natural phenomena to the fullest.
If you’re bird lovers? Try to consider visiting Kenya during the wet season, when hundreds of species of birds are recorded, and you’ll have less competition and lower cost of travel.
Take note, you may decide to do a general tour or a specialist game drive. While a general tour may be appropriate especially if its your first time on African safari and if your attention is to observe as many animals as possible such as Game drive where you will have to go with a veteran guide to adventure a single kind of animal, you’re very intense about.
Get the timing right;
You should get to know the right time to travel Kenya – the right time is during the dry season thus an ideal time to go on safari.
Why?
This is can be rewarding time for game drive viewing, since grass can be short and no many tree species obstructing your view. Therefore, you’re more likely to observe the animals. Moreso, watering holes often dry up due too much sunshine and rain can take a few months without raining, leaving just a few options for animals to drink.
In fact, there are many benefits to traveling outside of the peak season. For the beginners, fewer visitors ensure that you have a more authentic safari experience, if it becomes kin to a theme park. Another benefit of fewer visitors, more competition among tour operators which results in lower prices for you.
Take the right camera
Like any other place of visit for holiday, must consider a nice camera and safari gear before embarking on your trip. Photography in the Kenya’s wilderness is no easy but rewarding.
For example, if the wildlife experience you’re adventuring into you want to take photographs in a distance of 25 meters of the vehicle – you will be able to get some memorable images, but if they are further away, you will need to have another good camera with expensive zoom lens in order to get the clarity and quality of images you’re looking for. Getting a spectacular shot in the wild, you’ll need to go large. Just know, there are lenses with focal lengths of up 600 mm, though a lens of 200mm can also work.
Our advice is that, if you lack both the desire and the funds to purchase a high- quality camera is to observe and appreciate, rather than spending all your time capturing a fuzzy and end up in regrets.
Choose the right tour operator
Incase you visit the national park or reserve; any reliable tour operator should be able to help you adventure them.
Wrong!
To most people who go for safari experience, end up with disappointment because they delt with unreliable tour operator who don’t know the facts about safari. For that matter, it’s important always to recognize that experienced wildlife tour guide will have immense safari knowledge that no amount of training can replace.
You should hire a guide who is knowledgeable about the terrain, the best spots and how animals travel in order to protect you from dangerous wildlife species.
Get your paperwork in order;
This may be a wondering question to many who are planning to visit Kenya Wildlife Safaris. ‘’ You may think your going to see animals? Then what are paperwork for! Well, depending on the destination you’re coming from and the passport you hold, you may need to prepare some paper work in advance of your trip to Kenya in order to avoid any inconvenience at the Airport such as Visas or Vaccinations.
Choose to apply for an e- Visa online through the ‘’Official Kenya e-Visa website’’ or contact Kenyan embassy for assistance if necessary. Another option, you can ‘’Appy in through Atlys by helping you to endure a frustrating visa application process. Or else, you may need to have a ‘’ yellow fever vaccination certificate’’ but depending on country where you’re traveling from.
Once you follow the above tips given -definitely will make your Kenyan Safaris Experience worth a visit.
