Here are some general guidelines that can help you when you are on safari:
1. Personal safety - in any place where you are traveling, you need to ensure your personal safety.
• Do not bring large amounts of cash.
• Your passport, money, and other travel documents should be in a pocket or under your shirt stuffed in your backpack or camera bag.
• Watch your own bags around while walking in crowded places such as streets, restaurants, markets and airports.
• Do not walk alone at night.
• When you go out, think about your money, passport, and airline tickets lodge or hotel safe.
• Do not use any jewelry while traveling. It is best to leave them at home.
• Valuables, such as camera, purse, wallet pocket and mobile phones, should not be hidden account, and certainly in your rental car, tour bus or back seat. Also, make sure you do not leave it in your room lodges or camps.
2. Travel insurance - get travel insurance as soon as your travel plans are confirmed, you will be covered if an unexpected or unfortunate event that happens before your safari.
3. A reminder of your credit card company and the bank - most credit card companies and banks to encourage them to inform you that before traveling abroad, so their monitoring of your credit card will not be suspended if they do not find foreign purchases (pay for airfare, car rental, and hotels) that occur on holidays. Sometimes these purchases could result in the suspension of your credit card and lead to embarrassing moments.
Be careful when you provide your credit card information during such a trip. It is unfortunate that other people can get your credit card number without your knowledge (when paying for accommodation in the hotel reception, rental companies, shops, etc.). When you pay your bill, leave your credit card out of your sight.
4. Water - remember to drink only bottled water because water from other sources may not be safe. You can get bottled water in your lodges and safari camps. On your travels, make sure you have bottled water with you. If you are worried about the quality of the water where you stay in touch, you can ask a member of staff. In an emergency, you can make water purification tablets.
5. Tipping - This is a common dilemma for many tourists in a foreign country, including safari trips, business trips, and cruises. Tipping is not expected when you go on a safari in Africa, but it has become common. The tip of the staff and guides safari camp is not part of your total trip cost, and it is completely optional.
Keep in mind what a small amount, you might be significant at a local staff and it will certainly be taken with gratitude.
Most safari camps have a tip box at the reception, where undetected services, such as for the people in the kitchen and the person who covers your own work room.
As a tip, do it in moderation and given based on the quality and level of service and, of course, only if you are satisfied with the service you get. Here is your guide, which is an accepted practice in general:
• Transportation / Driver - US $ 10 +
• private safari guide - US $ 25 per day +
• The camp staff - US $ 10 to $ 20 per day (which will be shared by the servers, bartenders, housekeepers, etc.
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