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Hotel with giraffes Giraffe Manor
Even if you have never heard the term “boutique hotel”, the phenomenon itself is no doubt familiar to you! Provided, of course, that your travel experience goes beyond group bus tours or a weeklong beach getaway. There are many hotels in Ukraine built within the framework of this concept.
The essence of the concept is to turn the hotel into an independent tourist location. That is, to make an overnight stay / stay in them an adventure worthy of an unforgettable experience. Continue reading
Which country to choose as your first safari trip
European languages borrowed the word “safari” from Swahili. At first, it meant exotic hunting in Africa. Nowadays, safari is most often a detailed inspection of the reserve. But no one will say that they took a safari tour of Saxon Switzerland or the Lake District of Britain. This word still means, first of all, a trip to the African continent.
Where to go on a safari for the first time is not an idle question for a European. Each of the African countries is not like Europe, but each in its own way. The climate, infrastructure, prices for tourist services, food, medicine, hygiene standards, the danger of meeting pathogens of exotic diseases can be strikingly different. Continue reading
Seasonality of safari tours: when to travel?
The most favorable countries for European tourists in Africa are located in the southern part of the continent. This is a different hemisphere, so we always have to remind ourselves: when we have summer, they have winter. Sometimes it even snows in July in South Africa.
But in general, the characteristics of summer and winter are different for Europe and Africa. The European antithesis is “cold-warm”, African “dry-wet”. It is this moment that must be taken into account when deciding when to go on a safari to Africa. Continue reading
