The Ultimate Women’s Guide For An Up And Coming African Safari

Listed in the article are some of our honest, straight-forward and practical tips for women going out on an African Wildlife Safari for the first time. It might be your honeymoon or a simple group tour or a solo travel, keeping these points in your mind is a must.

Coping Up With Bucket Showers-

 

• • A heated drum of water or a bucket shower is hoisted up the campfire to help wash as usual. Bucket showers found at a mobile camp in the remote places of African Safari prove to be helpful. You might also find regular plumbed showers • instead of bucket showers.
• • The amount of water in these showers is limited and therefore plans your shower carefully. African forests and flatlands face scarcity of water. Freshwater is supposed to be used sparingly. Be careful to turn off the taps once you are finished.

Packing Essentials-

 

• • Avoid bright colours completely. Practical clothes like shorts, trousers, and T-shirts in green, brown, grey and khaki colour is preferred. This will prevent animals from charging at you.
• • The more you look like the surrounding nature, the more you get to see of nature.
• • The peak African Safari Tours season or the cold season in Africa requires a lot of warm packing. Trouser closed shoes, socks, jackets, scarves, gloves (with a cut-off or textured fingers) are must-haves.
• • Sanitary products, toothpaste, and toothbrush, sunblock, moisturizer, unscented deodorant, and prescribed medicines should be packed carefully.

Sleep Requirements-

 

• • Nocturnal animals rely on sound to communicate since they can’t see. This makes night-time a bit noisy. Also, lion roars, hyena laughs, hippo chortles, owl hoots, nightjar calls, bush baby shrieks can also disturb your sleep. Carry earphones to help you sleep at nights in the campsites.

Do Not Pack:

 

• • Blues and blacks attract the tsetse flies. Avoid these colours.
• • Also, it can be really hot in the forests during the daytime. Black makes you even sweatier.
• • White scares the colour-blind animals and also gets dirty. Avoid whites.
• • Avoid animal prints. It might scare smaller animals and primates.
• • Avoid wearing any kind of perfume or hairspray or any sort of strong scent. Animals retreat from unfamiliar and strong scents.
• • Sexy clothes, jewellery, high heels, and handbags are totally out of place in the forested areas.
• • Avoid packing towels, pillows, rompers, jumpsuits, and onsides.

Coping With That Time Of The Month

 

• • Bring sufficient supplies if you are due to have your dates while on an African Safari Tours. You might not be able to buy tampons in African forests and villages. Also, most camps have only male staffs and therefore borrowing is not the option.
• • Also, carry brown bags to dispose of the spoils.

Makeup Tips

 

• • African Safari is generally fairly warm throughout the year. If you wash your hair, a nature walk is enough to dry your hair.
• • Similarly, the heat spoils most of the makeup you put on. Mascara and a lip gloss are more than enough.

Safety On Safari

 

• • Listen to your guide or ranger and always obey the instructions given by the staff at all times. Years of experience helps they predict the behaviour of wild animals.
• • Do not take food back to your tent or leave food lying around in the campsite.
• • Zip up your tent or close the door when leaving to avoid primates from getting into your space.
• • A lot of camps are unfenced and allow animals to pass through. Do not walk around the camp in an unfenced camp at night.
• • Prefer the alarm in any case of emergency. If you do not find an alarm you can shout out loud for help.
• • Avoid swimming in rivers or lakes unless you have permission from the African Safari Tour guide if you do not want to be eaten by the crocodiles.
• • Attracting wild animals, feeding them or trying to tame them is a bad idea. Animal bites are very painful and medication might be delayed in a safari.

Shopping On Safari

 

• • Things you can buy- beadwork, tea, coffee, lotions made with traditional ingredients like rooibos, clothing, traditional clothes, jewellery, beautiful soaps.
• • Africa has many precious stones and metals so look out for gold, diamonds, tanzanite, platinum, Mozambican rubies.
• • Do not buy animals like the chameleons, birds, puppies or cubs.

Food In Africa

 

• • You are going to put up a lot of extra pounds on your African Safari Tours. The food in the camps is very delicious and rich in fats and meat. The limited exercise further cuts off fat reduction.

Will There Be A Spa?

 

• • Spa treatments in Africa are almost always undertaken by young women. Not all of the women have been formally trained. Some speak fluent English while some don’t.
• • The treatments include- massages, manicures, and pedicures with the least amount of technology. Advanced treatment is not available in these areas.

Women are always being welcome to Africa. Africa is a miscellaneous tourist destination ill over the world, so which type of African Safari Tour Package you can choose, you can always enjoy a lot. Above we have mentioned some tips for women travellers if you need some more information regarding your tour, call us (+255 754 069 769, +255 754 585 555) or visit our website @ silverskytravel.co.tz to learn more about women tips and to book your African Safari Tours now.