Tips on how to book a cheap and affordable African safari.
- Stay Longer in One Place – Staying longer at a destination, hotel, lodge or game park will make your African safari trip cheaper because there will be less distances travelled not to get to different and further distances from one place to another thus saving fuel consumption.
- Choose the Right Destination – Always have top priority of the wild game that you want to see and inquire of knowledge of the best locations where to find these wild vistas. This will save you time from hitting aimless destinations that are not in line with your requirements thus having a boring trip.
- Use a Local Safari Operator – A local tour operator like Travitude safari tours that will help you book your permits and tickets to your destination with little hustle and with assurance since the local tour operators have updated and first-hand knowledge about those destinations. This will ease your travel more so to destinations that require you to book tickets in advance for example gorilla trekking, chimpanzee tracking, golden monkey tracking and destinations that attract high numbers.
- Consider moving in numbers – Moving in numbers will save you some dollars as it will get you sharing some costs such as transport and lodging facilities with the charge on other family members and friends than moving alone where the cost will be upon you alone.
- Compromise on Luxury – Do not over cling or emphasize on luxury travel if your pocket is not well off. Use local tour operators who have advance knowledge of what is on ground that can help get near to luxury experiences at an affordable cost that also fits in your pocket without strain.
- Travel During Low / Green Season – For low cost safari experiences, consider travelling during a low/ green season which is the rainy season. It’s a low season as many tourists visit during the dry season when the grass is short and herbivores more around in search for water where predators also move around to hunt them for food thus easily seen. Never the less, the rainy/ green season is equally entertaining in the wild as it’s the time when many herbivores are also giving birth and are all over the wild since there’s much green everywhere thus predators are always next too their prey. Visiting during this time with fewer tourists gets you to pay less as most facilities and parks have less pressure.