How Long to Spend on Safari in Africa, Average Days to Stay on Tour

How long to spend or stay on safari in Africa

Average days to spend on safari in East Africa:

How long you can spend on your safari in Africa or stay on safari is very much a question of personal preference that depends on a number of factors like your budget, what you prefer seeing, modern work pressures and how much holiday time you have at your disposal. Averagely you can spend 2-16 days on safari in Africa depending on your experience desires and budget.

There are a number of scenarios we encounter in relation to safari duration. There are some few clients especially repeat travelers who prefer going on safari for 3-4 weeks and surprisingly will not feel how long enough the safari has been. They try to go by the original concept of looking at a safari as a “journey” of discovery and reflection to the wild and ancient hinterland of the “Dark Continent”.

Then we have the other group of clients traveling to Africa and East Africa in particular for business, conference, visiting friends or just transiting through among other reasons and want to enjoy a quick safari as an add on with in the shortest time possible. Most of these travelers prefer 1 day to 4 days safari.

Given enough time at your disposal, the average duration of our safaris is between 8 to 16 nights and within these days you can cover all the major Uganda safari experience or Rwanda safari experience or even combine Uganda or Rwanda primates with Tanzania migration safari with an extension to Zanzibar.

But with pressures that come with work, family and costs, two weeks safari duration seems to be what most travelers prefer factoring in travel time. At Engabi Tours and Travel we normally recommend that you have at least one rest night on arrival after a long international flight and to combine your safari with a non-wildlife experience like Ssese Islands beaches on Lake Victoria, Lake Kivu in Rwanda or Zanzibar Islands to allow you relax after you hectic safari activities.

The remoteness of the safari activity experience determines how long you stay for a safari since there is a need to balance between diversity and immersion. This also goes hand in hand with how much time is required to transfer from one lodge to another and from activity back to the lodge.

If a lot of time is spend moving to the activities and back then you need a longer stay to be able to able to have enough time relaxing and enjoying your room. However some experience can be experienced within two days or even one days. For example a 1 day Uganda gorilla trekking safari tour from Kigali.

Still wondering how long you should stay on safari! Contact our travel expert with your preferred travel style and we advise you.

Below are some of our suggested scheduled Uganda safaris, Rwanda safaris, Tanzania safaris and combined East African safaris you can take part in on your first Africa safari trip.