Best of all, a safari in Africa offers you the tremendous sense of satisfaction and well being that comes with a well deserved exotic vacation second to none. This is what the best African safaris achieve.

Our purpose here is to help you decide what are the best African safaris for you & avoid costly mistakes in choosing your African safari.

One reason we offer advice is because most online safari tours websites and websites on African safaris only tell you about the safari lodges or camps they own. These may or may not be the best for you.

Similarly limited is the information available from most travel agents who sell trips to Africa. Very few have ever been to Africa. Even fewer have been on more than 1 or 2 safaris. We think it is virtually impossible for you to get the best African safaris from such sources. Click here to learn more about assessing online safari tours & questions you need to ask.

Top Questions We Ask For The Best African Safaris

Most people want to go on safari so that they can see lion, elephant, rhino, buffalo and leopard. These are called the big five since they were the most dangerous animals for hunters to hunt.

There are many other intriguing animals and plant life to discover but you need to make sure you know if the park or private reserve has animals you want to see. Click here to go to a page with free guides to what major animals are found in what major parks in Southern and East Africa.

2. Is the safari in a private reserve that is fenced in or is in part of a national park, where animals can roam freely?

Many excellent & some of the best African safaris can be had in a private reserve – privately owned land that may also own the animals that you see. The private reserves can be: • entirely fenced in
• can be adjacent to other private reserves where animals move freely between reserves
• adjacent to national parks where the animals can move freely between the national park and the private reserve.

This is a key question. Why? Because with the boom in the number of game lodges in South Africa, you may go to a game poor reserve (i.e. it has very few animals). Either they don’t have a lot of certain types of animals – lion for example, or they are in an area that can’t support a large number of animals.

Even though many private reserves are very large, some people want more of a wilderness experience where animals are roaming freely over a more vast area.

3. Are the game drive vehicles permitted to go off road to follow animals?

Even in private reserves the animals are wild. And sometimes just as you get close enough to see them they decide to run off. If you are really keen to get as close to the animals as possible, you may want to consider going to a lodge on a private reserve. Since these reserves permit their rangers to drive off road if necessary to get you really close to the animals.

Many national parks forbid off road game drives. The reasons are to protect delicate flora and to give the animals a break as well. Private lodges that are within some national parks compensate for this by enabling you to walk off road. This is a stunning opportunity, is a very different experience versus riding in a game vehicle and you should do it.

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