Game Viewing Tips

Successful game viewing obviously depends on you finding the animals so we will be looking at a few strategies to help you be more successful.

So, successful game viewing while on an African Safari tends to be a combination of choosing the right method, right time of day and right route, if you are going on a game drive, and then having a bit of patience.

Let's now look at a few strategies to help you be successful in finding animals...

• Game Viewing Methods – here we look at the various methods of viewing game, from using vehicles, hot-air balloons, hides, or even from the comfort of your own bungalow

• When to Look - most animals are active in the cool hours of early morning and then again at the end of the day, but you should also consider the seasons and weather in order to enable you to find more animals

• Sighting boards – these are important tools in locating game on a daily basis. Each camp has one or more sighting boards in addition to sightings books and / or chalk boards

• Animal Behavior – understanding animal behavior is the key to finding them and then to anticipate what they may do once you have found them

• Best routes – some routes are consistently more productive than others – here we will reveal the routes that have given us the best sightings during our more than sixteen years of visiting the various national parks and big-five game reserves

• Camps and bungalows – each camp is unique in terms of feel, location, local species and so it’s important that you choose the right camp depending on what type of animals you want to see

• Veld condition should also be taken into account when you are deciding when to visit which park.

• See the animals - we are amazed at how many people drive past animals, even large elephants, as they did not 'see' them! We will share some of our seeing techniques with you

• Patience - if you have patience you will end up very successful in finding and photographing game! Here we will share with you what has worked for us

• Etiquette for viewing game – we all want to have an enjoyable wilderness experience so it’s important to stick to the rules and to be considerate towards other people. If a few basic rules are followed everyone will enjoy their game viewing experience more

• Identifying the Animals - It is important to correctly identify the animals you see when on game drives, that is why a good animal identification guide is so important. Here we provide comparisons of the animals most confused by people on safari.

• Thousands of animals end up as Road Kill each year in national parks caused mostly by people who supposedly love animals! Here is some information on how to avoid killing the creatures we want to conserve.

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