Ensure A Wildly Successful Safari Using This Self Drive Ebook

Loaded onto your mobile phone, this guide becomes your virtual assistant in Africa.

It's equivalent to having a human safari guide along with you, showing you everything you need to know and do before and during your self drive safari. All destinations accessible by a normal sedan vehicle, no 4x4 needed.

Here's some of what the 'Before' section of the guide contains...

Avoid these nine common safari clothes mistakes and get detailed recommendations to pick the best safari hat, shoes and luggage.

Find the perfect pair of binoculars for your trip by making sure it has these six essential characteristics. Specific brand recommendation also help you to choose.

Make sure you don't leave anything important at home or take too much (flight weight restrictions) by ticking off the items as they go into your suitcase.

68 items in total divided into categories like clothing, equipment, toiletries, first aid and documents.

Tips and techniques learnt over more than 45 years to help you take the finest pictures you possibly can on your self drive.

Guidance about the best safari lenses, cameras, window rests and picture storage.

Advice about power and battery requirements, camera gear and flying, dealing with dust, equipment rental and insurance.

Learn how not to overspend on your rental vehicle, what optional extras make sense and the top rental companies.

All the destinations covered in this guide can be reached using a normal sedan, no 4x4 vehicle needed.

The airports and airlines you can use for air travel in Southern African countries.

Getting in touch with home and accessing the web in African safari areas can be unreliable and expensive. Find out how to combat this problem.

Eight safari areas to visit with a detailed description of the animals you can see there, best time to travel, costs and how to book.

Seven things to do on your self guided safari that will enhance your trip greatly. Some need to be booked in advance.

Getting this wrong can lead to very expensive repercussions if things do go wrong on your trip. Four key facts to know before you go.

Find out what kind of visa you need based on your country of residence. Requirements can change without notice and are updated reasonably frequently.

Prevention is the watchword when it comes to health on safari so find out which medicines and inoculations are necessary.

The experience of over forty five years and hundreds of self drive safari trips encapsulated in this ebook, to help you make the most of your journey to Africa, as it happens. Here's some of what this section of the guide contains...

Tips to improve your wildlife watching specific to each of the eight parks and reserves namely Kruger National Park, Kgalagadi, Pilanesberg, Hluhluwe-Imfolozi, Addo Elephant, Mountain Zebra, Mkhuze and Etosha National Park.

Information on how to get there, arrival at the gate and driving around. Detailed guidance about lingering locations you will come across such as picnic spots, hides, waterholes, pans and dams, lookout points, walking trails, cultural and historic sites.

Run down of the restaurants, cafeterias and shops available for meals and refreshments with an example menu of what you can expect for sit down meals.

Particulars about the communication options available and tabulated facilities shown for all accommodation options in every park and reserve.

Increase your chances of finding wildlife in the Kruger Park by using these tried and tested roads. Three routes in each section of the Kruger, so twelve in total.

Based on over forty five years of experience and thousands of sightings reports on social media and wildlife sightings apps.

Photographs of commonly occurring mammals, birds and reptiles to help you put a name to what you've spotted on your game drive.

List of important consumable items to buy once you're in Africa if you plan to self cater, which is much cheaper than eating out at restaurants daily.

Includes six day planning menus and recipes to make things easier.

Nine things you can do to radically increase your chances of seeing more animals on game drives. Tried and tested after many years of experience.

An African safari really is one of the most remarkable trips you will ever go on, and though the memory of it will last you a lifetime, the full extent of the experience will begin to blur a little over time.

Use the Notebook in the guide which allows you to record all the important events and experiences that happen before or during your trip.

There is no limit to how much you can write, and once you click on the save button your notes will be available to you again.

You can add notes to a specific word or sentence, or to a page. It's also possible to bookmark a page and to highlight a word or sentence in the text that you might want to refer back to later.