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Ultimate Guide on First Time Safari Tips

Elephant Spooks right before Game Drive Vehicle

Elephant Spooks right before Game Drive Vehicle

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Lakshmi Soundararajan

Wildlife, Nature Enthusiast

Lakshmi Narasimhan Soundararajan

How to Plan

As a first time wildlife safari goer, it is critical that you plan well in advance. This will be based on duration of the trip. As a minimum, you must consider below categories.

  • You Must Plan for Below Categories: 
  • Location From - Where are you coming from?
  • Location To - Where are you headed?
  • Travel by Road, Rail or Air?
  • What is Your Total Budget? 
  • Are You Traveling Alone or as a Group?
  • What is the Duration of your Trip?
  • Is Your Group Adult or are there Children?

It is critical that you plan well in advance.

As a minimum, you must consider location from and to, mode of transportation, total budget, individual or group, duration and whether any children will travel.

Lakshmi Soundararajan

Wildlife Enthusiast

Lakshmi Narasimhan Soundararajan

Where Should  You Go?

Africa is THE place for a first time wildlife adventure. Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa are choices for you.

However, you can also choose USA, Canada, India for different wild animal experiences.

  • Africa is THE place for a first time wildlife adventure. 
  • Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa are choices for you.
  • However, you can also choose USA, Canada, India for different wild animal experiences.
  • Serengeti National Park in Tanzania is a great 1st choice. Why?
  • Serengeti National Park is the Planet's Biggest Game Reserve.
  • You will find every kind of wildlife there.
  •  Super Seven of Africa are iconic

Africa is THE place for a first time wildlife adventure. Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa are choices for you.

However, you can also choose USA, Canada, India for different wild animal experiences.

Lakshmi Soundararajan

Wildlife Enthusiast

Lakshmi Narasimhan Soundararajan

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park is the Planet's Biggest Game Reserve. It spans a distance of over 14000 square kilometers in Tanzania.

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Leopard on Tree Fork Serengeti

How Do You Get There?

You can reach the Serengeti National Park by road, rail and air both from inside Tanzania as well as neighboring countries like Kenya.

  • We went by road from Nairobi in Kenya to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
  • We crossed the border into Tanzania at Namanga (see below map).
  • From there, we went through Arusha on our way to the Serengeti.
  • It took us about 10 hours from Nairobi to the Serengeti with stops at Namanga and Arusha.
  • Serengeti has convenient transport hubs by rail, road and air inside Tanzania as well as neighboring countries like Kenya.

You can reach the Serengeti National Park by road, rail and air both from inside Tanzania as well as neighboring countries like Kenya.

Lakshmi Soundararajan

Wildlife, Nature Enthusiast

Lakshmi Narasimhan Soundararajan
Nairobi to Serengeti National Park by Road

Nairobi to Serengeti National Park by Road

Where Will You Stay

Serengeti National Park offers both adventure style camps as well as family oriented lodges.

  • Luxury Tented Camps are popular in the park providing 5 Star comfort right in the middle of the jungle.
  • We Stayed in the Mbuzi Mawe Tented Camps in the park and could hear the roar of the lions in the night.
  • Armed guards accompanied us from our tents to the restaurant at night for dinner.
  • Mbuzi Mawe Tented Camps have top class accommodations complete with bath and toilets right inside the tents.

Luxury Tented Camps are popular in the park providing 5 Star comfort right in the middle of the jungle complete with bath and toilets right inside the tents.

Lakshmi Soundararajan

Wildlife Enthusiast

Lakshmi Narasimhan Soundararajan

Game Drives

Our Game Drives were by a "Kombi" (African term for a mini-van) with a slide open top for standing inside and viewing game. See image to the right.

  • Kombi drivers are also guides who are familiar with the trails on which vehicles are allowed.
  • Tanzania is very strict about driving on main road trails for watching game.
  • Game Drives are generally early in the morning, after breakfast and in the afternoon.
  • Kombi driver guides know exactly what time animals, particularly big cats can be sighted during drives.
Kombi - Lake Nakuru National Park Kenya

Our Game Viewing was by a "Kombi" (African term for a mini-van with a slide open top for standing inside and viewing game. Kombi drivers are also guides who are familiar with the trails by which vehicles are allowed.

Lakshmi Soundararajan

Wildlife Enthusiast

Lakshmi Narasimhan Soundararajan

About the Park

Serengeti National Park is the Planet's Biggest Game Reserve.  

  • It spans a distance of over 14000 square kilometers in Tanzania.
  • It has Kenya in the north border alongside the Mara river.
  • Home to the largest Lion population in Africa
  • Famous for the largest annual migration of wildebeest, zebra and other smaller animals
  • Home to the Super Seven of Africa - lion, elephant, rhino, buffalo, leopard, cheetah & wild dog
Lionesses resting on rock top - Serengeti National Park
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