When it comes to tourists in national parks are, what we wonder is said that some of them! It is usually a grain of truth mixed with nonsense, so that the stories are believable.
My wife and I were born in Africa, have lived here all our lives and for long the most visited national parks of Kruger to the Kalahari to Kilimanjaro.
We wish you the Top Ten Myths on safari in Africa, we heard demystified, but with our experience so thatYou can support your decisions on facts.
Myth No. 1: Africa hot, humid and dangerous!
Fact: More people from spiders and snakes in their homes when they bite during the safari. Most safaris in open savannah did not happen in the jungle safaris and the best time to tend to the winter months, when mosquitoes and snakes pending.
Myth 2: It is not safe for tourists due to political unrest in Africa.
Fact: The Kruger National Park alone receives 1.5 million visitors a year,of which over 60% of foreign visitors. The United States fits about three times in Africa - Africa is a huge continent with many countries - some have problems, but generally safe, the parks of South Africa, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia and peaceful.
Myth 3: An African safari is an adventure holiday.
Fact: A safari is a traditional event relaxed, in a vehicle. Descend to the park on a self-drive safari or a guided tour in search ofWildlife watching or photographing. Your only effort is to raise the camera or your Sun downer!
He must learn to be truly African wildlife "shaken.": Myth No. 4
Fact: You have the ability to self-drive and rough, but also take the opportunity to go it alone and stay in comfortable rooms with bath bungalow or guided safaris with luxury accommodation and gourmet meals. We did all three and for a true wilderness experience, prefer en-suite bungalowsWilderness camps in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
Myth 5: An African safari is very expensive!
The fact is: we are very pleasant to be in self-contained accommodation in safari tents on the family costs the country an average of about U.S. $ 150.00 per night (for 2 people). If you are a foreign tourist would be your most expensive item on the ticket and if you use frequent flyer miles on your safari entire cost be drastically reduced.
Myth 6: The African parks with yourSafari is all the more severe are your experiences in the desert.
Fact: Rather than remain in a park for the duration - the Kruger Park is over 300 km from north to south - you could only spend 10 days in the south of the park and not see everything there is to see. They should offer an African safari with the quality of wildlife viewing only takes a tick-list of parks visited.
Myth 7: to find seeing the wildebeest migration and / or the Big Five is like the Holy Grail - a safari, is not a safariwithout them!
Fact: Some people get their timing wrong and feels the lack of migration, while others do not check the big five animals. Our advice is to not bother - a safari is much more than just these two sites. You have the big-six birds, the small five animals, the eleven-hard, a challenge that can be found and that make great photos ops! We won a couple of photography contests, and most of our winners were the images of insects, reptiles and plants - those not seenAnimals.
Myth # 8: You need a guide to find the animals.
Fact: We conducted a series of records in both the private reserves and national parks have been even better, we have sightings when they go on their own. It boils down to do a game drive at the right time (cooler parts of the day), with alarm in shape, color and movement in the bush and in the right place at the right time.
Myth # 9: Do you need a big, expensive lens "Bazooka" to get good photos.
Fact: ALong lens is an advantage if a safari is not a necessity. We have the Super Seven (the Big Five, cheetah and wild dog more) photographed in the Kruger Park just a few meters from our vehicle. A target of 300 mm with 1.4x tele-converter would be sufficient for most of the opportunities. If you have a camera like the Nikon D7000 with 18 megapixels, you can cut away shots and still have a decent resolution.
Myth # 10: Safari safari lasts about 3 or 4 hours and are twiceOne day, shortly before dawn just before sunset, seven hours of the day you can do anything.
The fact is that we do safaris in the early hours of the morning, but you are on vacation and can not sleep! But remember just because the day will most likely sleep during the day, the other will see the leopard and the pride of lions!
Our routine to go early in the morning and then stay on the field for the rest of the day. The mornings are much cooler than the afternoon, so we tend to see moreGame early in the morning. You also have the chance to go out all day If you have a self-drive safari - this is where you are the boss! Note that you have more chances to see animals like cheetahs in the heat of the day, it's like to go hunting when they can.
So you have it - the Top Ten African Safari myths exposed!