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Email ~lustedtowander~ | 35-50 years of age
Kenya is fine for a packaged safari tour.
Kenya has been the classic safari destination for decades. The tourism infrastructure is well developed, so options abound. One can witness the highlights of Kenya on a budget group safari, indulge in the luxury of a private tour, or embark on a rugged exploration of remote Northern Kenya. The people are friendly, the food is tasty, and the scenery is fabulous. However, industrial tourism has taken its toll on the experience. Entrance fees (ask for an itemized list of your package tour costs) to the parks are outrageously expensive. Mini vans crowd around predator sightings, and the neglected remote parks have fallen victim to poaching.
Kenya deserves to be explored and appreciated by the more adventurous traveler for its scenic beauty alone. While the wildlife is by-and-large confined to reserves, they are spectacular in their relative naturalness and abundance of flora and fauna.
Kenya's great for an organised safari. If you are self-driving Southern Africa is much cheaper and easier, as are Uganda and Rwanda.
Not a Zoo like South Africa, not a bush discoteque like some lodges in Tanzania (with South African owners) - only the real thing, spiced with smiling locals.
CA
Email Yukon Travellor | 50-65 years of age
We have been to Kenya three times on safari and will probably return again. Each time we find something new to visit and the parks, animals, and people are well worth the effort and cost of getting there.
I have visited about 10 countries in Africa. Kenya has the best wildlife, is one of the most beautiful scenically, has a great bush vibe about it and has the best birding I have seen. It is harder to do on your own (easier than Tanzania but much harder than South Africa).
NZ
35-50 years of age
Has great scenery, volcanoes, mountains, plains, lakes etc and abundant wildlife with friendly locals.
Hospitable country with enough park to make everyone happy.
Kenya gives you the chance to experience a real safari
SE
Email Robert Pilemalm | 20-35 years of age
There are so much to see and Kenya really agrees with the picture of wildlife I had before I came there.
