Kenya
Can you describe this scene?
What is your image of safari?
Can people use their own car?
How do we find animals?
What is the best time of the day to start?
Is it safe to leave the car?
Can we use the toilet?
What are the most dangerous animals in the park?
Buffalo = アフリカ水牛
Warthog = イボイノシシ
Zebra = シマウマ
Hippo = カバ
Rhino = サイ
Baboon = マントヒヒ
Most tourists will hire a driver and travel in a safari car like this…
…. but you can use your own car. Any type of car is allowed but the roads are often bumpy and there are many steep hills.
The driver or guide knows where the animals are but if you don’t use one, you just have to drive around at random.
There are Facebook and what’s app groups of people who will post the areas they see animals
Animals don’t like the heat and sun and will nap at the hottest part of the day. You should start very early (or in the late afternoon) to see them moving around
It is NEVER 100% safe to leave the car. Lions are hard to see and could be anywhere. Snakes are also a big risk.
There are toilets in the park.
SOME toilets and picnic areas are fenced off but the roads are not fenced so if animals walk on the road they can enter. There were many Baboons around some toilets. They will try to steal your food if they smell it.
Rhinos and elephants may attack and knock over your car if you get too close.
Hippos are the most dangerous animals because they are territorial (like China)
territorial = they aggressively protect their territory.
Hippos are found near lakes and rivers and think that’s their home. They kill hundreds of people in Africa each year
We stayed in this airbnb. What’s your impression of it?
airbnb = company that lets you rent people’s houses to stay in (民泊)
This is in a national park. There are no fences around the land so while eating we saw buffalo, warthogs, zebras, monkeys and giraffes walking though our garden.
Airbnb = near Naivasha lake (many hippos, no lions)
Biggest park we went to: Ol Pajeta Conservancy (100 year old house)
orphanage: Mt. Kenya wildlife conservancy
Karura forest (near Nairobi)