Just so its completely clear that we weren't jammed in conventional tour buses like we would have been in North America, I thought I'd do a quick note on the different vehicles used. Since we had to cross a border and change drivers and companies at the border we had quite different vans in Tanzania and Kenya, but they were the same general shape. Below is our Tanzanian tour van with the roof up.
And this is our Kenyan van, also with the roof up. Each of these typically sat 5 people plus a driver and we typically traded seats as we pleased with room left over to store camera gear and the like. The roofs are retractable for dusty highway driving and pop up with between 30 seconds and 3 minutes work (the Kenyan ones were trickier) for a game drive.
We also had a morning boat tour on
Lake Naivasha so I figured I'd include a picture of the sort of thing you take out on a hippo-infested body of water. They weren't bad so long as you're not trying to shoot forward when you're 3rd in line, and the engine only broke down AFTER the angry hippo came after us, so it all worked out reasonably well in the end.
And this is our Kenyan van, also with the roof up. Each of these typically sat 5 people plus a driver and we typically traded seats as we pleased with room left over to store camera gear and the like. The roofs are retractable for dusty highway driving and pop up with between 30 seconds and 3 minutes work (the Kenyan ones were trickier) for a game drive.
We also had a morning boat tour on Lake Naivasha so I figured I'd include a picture of the sort of thing you take out on a hippo-infested body of water. They weren't bad so long as you're not trying to shoot forward when you're 3rd in line, and the engine only broke down AFTER the angry hippo came after us, so it all worked out reasonably well in the end.
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