When choosing which safari to book, you may feel just a little overwhelmed by the number of safaris available. However, it’s a good way of being annoyed by a choice; having no safari at all would be significantly worse.

Shop around and compare, possibly the best way will be to look at the price. Unfortunately, the cheaper options will generally involve using a minibus to get around the national parks and entering in-to these parks with a hundred other minivans of tourists all crowding around a lion or elephant.

Also, campsites may be preferred to save money so you will escape the expense of a lodge which can sometimes be inside the national park itself! If you are on a tight budget, this could well be the only option for you and it would be far better to take this than not go at all.

Dropping an email to the safari provider and asking for more details will be beneficial; again it’s been made apparent that information on safaris can be very scant or ambiguous.

However, if you have the money and are demanding higher comfort levels, the more luxurious safaris should be quite self-explanatory to find.

Many of these offer more stylish accommodation, just outside the national parks and utilize more comfortable 4×4 vehicles. Always check what is included in the price and what is not, the last thing you want is to find you have extra accommodation costs or expensive national park entry fees to pay while you are on your safari.

In real terms, the quality of an African safari can vary greatly and may not be defined by how much you have paid for it. It can just be down to sheer luck or the skill of the driver/guide in a particular company.

These people can make or break your safari; good guides will make the extra effort to follow animals and set up your sighting of them so that you avoid the tour bus herds, also they will be able to supply more information on the wildlife and use their experience to track down the rarer sights.

Many will have taken courses and are qualified in fields such as ecology or wildlife conservation so they can be knowledgeable indeed. The guides in some of the cheaper tours can be quite the opposite and you may find that with language barriers, some effort to locate certain animals is not made.

Even company management can influence what your experience will be like and how much consideration for the environment they have.

This is an area possibly worthy of research but obviously, when Booking your safari with Goldstep Safaris you will be booking with a company that holds high regard for the environment and “show” concern for conservation.