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Plan Your Safari Trip in Africa

    "Safari" in translation from swahili designates " an adventure, travel ". Now to tourists offer two kinds of "adventure" - short-term and long-term.
   
    Short-term safari is 1-2-days trip to an open jeep. As a rule, the group is going to up to six person. On such safaris the guide tells about counter birds and animals and shows places where they can be met more often. The best time for similar trip considers morning and evening. Cost - from $40-60 for excursion.
     
    Long-term out-of-road safari can borrow a week or more.. In expedition there are collected not less than three machines; the number of the personnel includes the cook who will prepare for a meal if you do not stop in campings and hotels. Machines on such safaris are necessarily equipped with a radio communication, the route is stipulated beforehand, but it can be corrected already being in ways. Routes are offered a different level of complexity: deserts, savannas. The similar pleasure not presumes everyone, therefore such safari rare enough. Costs - from $3 one thousand for 10 days.
     
    For inveterate hunters there is a hunting safari. A trophy can become an antelope, an elephant, a lion, a crocodile or a leopard - all about 50 kinds of animals. Such safari will cost more expensively ordinary "fact-finding". Budgets of many countries seriously replenish at the expense of hunting and licensing for killing of animals. In Zimbabwe the right to shoot down an elephant  costs 12 thousand euro, a lion is little bit cheaper - than 10 thousand euro, a buffalo - 5 thousand, and a leopard - 3,5 thousand. But even if you are not going  to shoot an animal from " the big five ", such safari will cost a minimum in $1000. Besides the separate payment will be for a gun if you have not brought it with yourselves.

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