Safari Tour June 2026
First Safari for this world traveler and I am nervous. Anyone has any advice other than the "use common sense" and "have your vaccines in order"? Anyone else going on this tour? Would be nice to connect beforehand. Also about the luggage I am so confused. Can we bring a suitcase to the first leg and then leave it there (in Tanzania), start the tour with our assigned duffle bag and then recuperate the suitcase in Kenya? Will it be sent there? The reason I am asking is because we also travel before and after the safari and I cannot just have a duffle bag for all my pre and post destinations. Thank you in advance to anyone who will reply :-)
Malia
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Hello Malia, bring your suitcase. Bring the duffle bag folded and put it inside your suitcase to use later, or you can usually use it as a carry on (check dimensions and airline rules.) Around day 3 of the tour you will pack the duffle and that gets carried on the planes, while the suitcases travel by truck. You will be reunited with your suitcase at various times. The duffels hold more than you would expect. I suggest you use the search function in the upper right of your screen and search everything written by Sealord who has done this tour many times.
Malia: I’m assuming you are doing K&T. You can do a search for the details, but I will give you the Readers Digest version. All you need for the safari is three sets of safari clothes plus the basics. Todays safari clothes, tomorrow’s safari clothes, and one set in the laundry. It may seem strange cuz you spend all day in a safari vehicle, but you get really dirty. Lots of dust. You also need a puffer jacket, gloves, and a stocking cap. It is really cold in the morning and at night. You are on the equator but at high altitude .It might get into the 80s during the day but the mornings and evenings are really cold. You will see your large luggage several times, but we never even opened outs. Our evening wear was tomorrow’s clean safari clothes.
I’ve taken the tour twice but been on nine safari tours. Personally, I take a few more safari outfits because you do have to be organized to get your laundry ready as soon as you get to a hotel with just a two night stay to be sure it gets back in time. I was on a tour where someone’s safari shirt got lost at the laundry. Otherwise, SeaLord is correct, clean safari clothes for dinner that you wear the next day. In my opinion, Safari vacations are by far the easiest to pack for.
Both Sealord and British are correct. I’m also on the side of British to pack just a little more. What size is the duffle or what are the measurements. If it’s the same as I had for Botswana, Zambia which was 30” - that is a huge duffle and that’s all you would need plus a backpack.
I’m in gorgeous Yosemite now. It’s April
and it is crowded.