Hey, is there anyone here who has been to Africa or lived there?

Question

What's it like? I've always wanted to go there on safari!

Answer 1

Kenya is a beautiful country and great for Safaris. If you want to go on a good Safari then go to Kenya during the Migration. I went in October and the weather was great and I saw everything apart from Lepoards. The people are really friendly and the food is gorgeous.
The Kenyan Royal Safari is a really good choice. but dont forget a balloon ride over the Maasi Mara

Zimbabwe is a lovely place to visit, take in Victoria Falls and go fishing up the north. The only way you really see any problems is trying to covert your cash asthey have closed all the foreign exchanges so you are better off doing on the black market.

South Africa, well where do you start. Its Fantastic. Take in Cape Town and the Wine Lands then head off to Kruger for a Safari. Our winter is the best time to travel there as the weather is better.

I am sure which ever desination you choose you will have the holiday of a lifetime. When leaving any country in Africa you feel like you are leaving a part of you behind. Something will take you back.

Answer 2

Africa is a huge continent.

Some lovely countries for 'safari' are in East Africa. Tanzania is far more well managed politically, so the roads are paved, the cities are clean, and the people are better off. Kenya is corrupt, many scary national police checkpoints, TERRIBLE roads, extreme poverty and slums, and pollution is sad.

For a first time visit, try Tanzania. Fly in to Arusha, and do some shopping for tour companies, and do not take their first offer. For about $2000 for 10 days you should be able to be in a group of no more than 6 (that is the max you should accept in a tour van) and have excellent accomodations at luxury lodges. Be sure to see Oldupai (Olduvai) gorge, where the oldest hominid remains were found by the Leaky's. See Ngorongoro crater. Go in the rainy seasons, you see more animals and there are fewer tourists. Learn some basic pleasantries in Kiswahili (go to Yale University website "The Kamusi Project" for a translating dictionary. Bring a good camera.

Answer 3

I lived in Arusha, Tanzania and got round a great deal one way and another, also travelling to Kenya, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Mauritius. Arusha has grown big since my time and tourism has developed, but I would go for a company concerned with the environment, such as http://www.expertafrica.com/responsible_travel.asp or http://www.guerba.com/. It is wonderful to hear the sounds of nature in the great silence of the African night. The colours of Africa seem to be more vibrant than elsewhere -- the earth is very red, the foliage very green and the sky very blue, with little scudding clouds of cotton wool. I love all the Indian Ocean countries, but have a particularly soft spot for Madagascar, where you can have a wildlife tour with a difference, seeing the many different types of lemur and enjoying an old culture which is partly African but also Oriental. If you go to East Africa, learn a little Swahili. http://mwanasimba.online.fr/E_TABLE.htm It is very easy to assimilate and will bring a special smile to people's faces. Greeting people in that part of the world is so important and after years of living in Tanzania it took me a while to get used to not greeting every stranger I met in the UK! Don't put off going -- go now, while you are able!

Answer 4

Kenya was a great country to visit.
The people were very nice.
The National Museum was great.
The safari parks were exotic and comfortable after a long day driving through the Serengeti (The roads wash away, so you are bounced around like a ping-pong ball).
Some were like luxurious English hunting lodges, others were tents with bathroom facilities. Very cool to walk out of your tent in the morning to see a herd of buffalo grazing next to you. And the sounds at night were eerie.
Kilimanjaro was spectacular.
You might sit on the veranda and a baboon will snatch your food. Maybe a herd of elephants walk by in the sunset. We were chased by a rouge male-very scary.
You may see the lions attack and have a tremendous kill.
Hippos, vultures, gazelles, hyena, leopard, rhino, boar, unimaginable.
A hydrox came up to me for food, a monkey jumped on board for a ride, and the baboons broke into the room below mine and ransacked the place. It felt like I was home.

And the Masai. Very interesting people.

Never will you have an experience like Africa.

Answer 5

Im living and stay here in Tanzania

Answer 6

agree with the previous statement. Avoid Nigeria like the plague.

South Africa ( the country) is incredibly beautiful and should be your first choice.

Kenya is popular for safaris and many tour operators will take you there.

Namibia is supposed to be wonderful for holdays. It is a well- kept secret. many south Africans go there.

Answer 7

Africa is too huge a continent for one to say they've lived there. Which country are you refering to? I am from South Africa and I've been around a few of the African countries.

Answer 8

Africa is a huge continent, what part was you thinking?
I spent time in Nigeria whilst hubby worked there.
Don't bother, very corrupt country with some racist people!

Answer 9

i went to uganda last year for a month they are the nicest most hospitable people i have ever met in my life. so much so that i am trying to get sponsership to go there long term

Answer 10

THERE IS NO TEENY-WINY PLACE CALLED AFRICA. IT IS A CONTINENT WITH 53 COUNTRIES . FROM ATLANTIC TO INDIAN OCEAN. THERE ARE AT LEAST TEN COUNTRIES I KNOW WHERE YOU COULD DO SAFARIS. WHERE EXACTLY DO YOU WANT TO GO?