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How to avoid safari mistakes:
Introduction
Group tours
Costs
Timing
Vehicle types
Guides & drivers
Tents
Transfers
Booking
Clothing
Health & safety
Cameras
Binoculars
Dining
Educational
Masai Mara vs. Serengeti

Why it's the best
Lodges & camps
Why it's outstanding
Rim lodges & camps
Why it's compelling
Luxury lodge & camps
Why it's special
When to go
Top lodges & camps
Why it's worthy
Top-rated lodges & camps
From Serengeti & Ngorongoro
Climb Kilimanjaro
Explore Zanzibar
See Olduvai Gorge
From Kruger
What it's like on a luxury safari
Big Five safari animals
Animal facts & tidbits
Safari Guide Home Page
Site map
About me and my credentials
About my website
Reader testimonials
Email me your opinion

Luxury safari kitchens are not gastronomic temples, nor do they try to be one. You are in a remote natural environment and the focus is on the wildlife, not wild thyme. Still, the food is admirable - and clearly superior to what is prepared at sub-luxury safari lodges and camps.
It's important to recognize that safari chefs (including those in luxury venues) face some culinary handicaps that few restaurants suffer. Your lodge or camp is in the middle of nowhere, distant from the nearest town. All the food has to be trucked in through the wilderness over rough dirt roads.
Much of the food shipped to the lodges and camps has to be frozen and stockpiled in bulk in freezers (just in case the dirt roads become muddy and impassable for days).
Don't be surprised if today's dish (with minor modification in name and flavoring agent) appears on tomorrow's menu in a sub-luxury lodge.
Don't count on an extensive variety of game meat. Some animals are protected by law (unless the meat is available from a game farm or was legally hunted to cull a herd, it won't be on the menu).
Occasionally ask the staff to sit you at a table with strangers. It's a good way to get to know other safari-goers - and to hear new safari stories.

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