Safari Clothing

SherriB

We are going on the South Africa Elegant Tour in September. I read for safari’s we should wear neutral colors, brown, khaki, tan, etc. After we purchased a couple items that were black, we read where it draws tsetse flies. Anybody take this trip and know if this is true? Maybe I need to start over with my clothing!

Sealord

I don’t know about Kruger, but we had lots of tsetse flies in the Serengeti. We spent a lot of time with a woman and her grand ‘nephew’ I think, who had lost luggage so for a time all he had was a black sweatshirt. He happened also to be a new entomology student. After a time I told him his ‘callsign’ would be “Flycatcher”, but that was too long to put on his helmet, and had too many syllables … so his new ‘callsign’ was “Fly”. He actually liked his new name. The tsetse fly ‘traps’ in the Serengeti use black and blue flags. That may tell us something.

Actually, it was a bit ‘convenient’ having someone in the truck wearing black, cuz the flies went after him and left the rest of us alone.