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Camping conjures up many different images for different people -memories of scout and guide camps as a youth or perhaps family camping trips - but for the purposes of the safaris offered by TATO members, there are four rough categories:

Budget camping
Budget camping involves traveling with all your camp equipment, your guide and possibly a cook in your vehicle with you. Once you get to camp everyone helps cook and set up. This is economical and can be fun, but might mean that you spend valuable time in the evening organizing your camp and food when you could be out on game drives. These services typically use the less expensive shared or public campsites, but exclusive camps, or campsites with shower and toilet facilities outside the parks, can also be booked and used. Sleeping is in small tents on a mattress on the ground.

Fly camping
Fly camping involves setting up small, temporary camps for a night under the stars, more often than not in a remote part of the bush. Fly camps are the ideal end to a day's walking safari or game drive, with many unexpected comforts - a canvas washbasin with hot water, fresh towels, hurricane lamps and delicious food cooked on the fire. At night, the sensation of sleeping in a light tent or just under a mosquito net, as the moon shines down and the noises of the African night begin, is the highlight of any safari holiday.

Luxury camping
Imagine feather pillows, soft towels, gin and tonic on the rocks, 4 course gourmet meals in a candlelit dining tent as far from civilisation as you can get. This is what luxury camping is all about. The tents are roomy and comfortable, with a veranda in front and a bathroom with hot-water shower, wash basin and toilet directly behind the tent. The beds have a bedside table, gas or solar lamps, chairs and a wardrobe for your clothing. A deep freeze will supply your drinks with ice and keep specialty food items fresh. Laundry is done daily. A large staff will ensure that your meals are gourmet and all your needs in camp are met. Luxury camps are often situated so that you can enjoy the same area for several days.

Light weight luxury camping
Like the luxury camps, tents will have metal or wood frame beds, standing headroom, a veranda and small ensuite toilets and hot showers. However, the tents will be smaller and may be the traditional A shape with central ridge pole. The camps are fully staffed and meals will be three course affairs served by a waiter in a lantern lirmess tent, or on a table under the stars. Pick-up trucks, rather than lorries often move these camps, so they don't have luxuries such as a deep freeze. There will usually be wine, beer and soda in camp on ice. Lightweight camps like this can be moved overnight and offer an amazing degree of comfort while maintaining the flexibility of a lighter camp.

Walking safaris
To experience a walking safari, where your camp will move with you each day is an authentic way to travel in Africa. Setting off in the cool early morning, you- start your walk, picnic and rest during the heat of the day, only to meet up with your camp in the late afternoon. Your camp is packed up and transported to the next location by different methods: pick up truck, porters or donkeys. The camping style tends to be lightweight and extremely mobile. You will walk for several days, traveling like nomads across the African bush often miles from any roads or tracks.

Camping Safari
What you need to bring
» Sleeping bag
» Spending money
» Small suitcase or rack sac as storage space is limited
» Warm clothes and plenty of clothes for the hot days
» Film for the duration of safari
» Insect repellant – Torch

What is included:
» Transport by Safari vehicle
» All Game Park entry fees
» All camping fees
» Tent for two people
» 3 meals a day also vegetarian meals also offered

In addition to the itineraries listed, Coastal Wilderness offers a number of safari extension, short breaks and alternative programmes. We will also be happy to design your own unique special holiday package to combine the places you particularly want to visit.