PLAN YOUR SAFARI

You can choose from a broad range of African photo safaris, depending on your particular interests, physical abilities, comfort level, timing and travel budget. Remember though, that if you're heading for a trip of a lifetime, you want to travel with like-minded companions and put yourself in the hands of guides who understand your objectives. Look for generous weight allowances so you can take along your big lens, at least 2 bodies, your chargers and other accessories, computers too!

Great tours are led by knowledgeable, experienced people who know the ins and outs, are cognizant of the risks, and maintain good relations with the people at small outback airports and checkpoints, minimizing the stress for you and your gear. Photographers need power in the camps 24/7 to work on their images and charge their batteries.

Great photography tours assure that vehicles are open-topped and accessible for gear and guarantee each photographer has his or her own row of seats, offering unobstructed views aead and to the side of the vehicle. You need drivers who know how to get safely in position for the best shots and guides willing to share their intimate knowledge of wildlife and how to photograph them. OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHER MAGAZINE, March 2011

NEWS & RECENT SAFARIS