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What to Bring
Travel List:
- Passport
- Visa (if required)
- Customs certificate for guns and cameras for return to the country of origin
- Airline Reservations/Tickets & your travel agent's contact details
- Necessary vaccinations & Health Certificates (see your nearest travel clinic)
- Credit cards, travellers' cheques, cash
- Travel insurance (usually arranged by your travel agent)
- Address & contact details for your outfitter/PH in Africa (our information here)
- Accommodation bookings for before & end of safari
Clothing:
- Khaki, Olive or Camouflage clothing is convenient
- Shorts (or loose fitting long pants) and T-shirts or short sleeve shirts for day time
- Warm clothing for night time and early morning
- Sunhat
- Sunglasses
- Warm jacket
- Light Windbreaker
- Sweater
- Underwear (warm - for going out early in African winter mornings)
- Gloves & beanie hat - also for those early mornings
- Leather Gloves
- Fingerless Gloves
- Bandanna
- Socks
- Comfortable In-Camp shoes
- Comfortable walking boots - preferably ones that are warn in
Personal Equipment/ Extras:
- Torch
- Torch batteries (and batteries for anything else that might need it)
- 12 volt recharger for video or 220 electrical converter (220V or 240V is the standard power supply in Africa)
- Plug adaptors (bring a variety of plugs as there are many varieties: square pin, round pin, two prong etc)
- Sewing kit & repair material
- Pen, pencil & paper
- Cellphone with roaming capabilities (needs to work on GSM system)
- Books & other reading material
- Travel Pack
- Moon bag/belt
- Radio
- Extra Eye Glasses (where applicable)
- Cord, tape & superglue
- Protective Watch Cap
- Sunglasses
Arms, Ammunition & other Hunting Gear:
- Bring your favourite, the one you are most comfortable with.
- 50 Rounds of ammunition should be sufficient
- Plains Game:
- We recommend a minimum of 270 .50 Cartriges should be sufficient for your hunt
- Big Game and Thick Skin Animals:
- A minimum of 375 is required
- .375 H&H. min.
- Dangerous Game
- .30Cal. for plains game
- 20 rds solids
- 50 soft-points
- Gun cleaning kit
- Pocket knife
- Cartridge
- Soft Gun Bag
- Binoculars
Camera equipment
- Padded Camera bag with:
- Binoculars
- Camera (video & still)
- Small camera on belt
- Small Tripod
- Lens Brush
- Extra Film
- Extra Batteries for Camera
- You can buy a charger to plug into your safari vehicle's cigarette lighter
Toiletries
- Toothbrush & toothpaste
- Any brand name toiletries that you can't do without!
- Water purification tablets (remember this is not necessary for South Africa as the water is safe to drink out of the taps)
- Personal hygiene kit & clippers
- Mosquito / Insect repellent
Medical
- Small medical kit containing :
- Foot powder
- Antibiotics (tropical ointment prescription)
- Diarrhoea medication
- Headache tablets
- Any personal medication (If you are bringing prescription medication, we recommend you also bring a copy of your doctor's prescription so as to avoid questions when you arrive)
Hunting Articles
OneThe Blue Wildebeest is a large antelope and one of two species of wildebeest.
ThreeThe Greater Kudu is a woodland antelope found throughout eastern and southern Africa.
FourThe lion is the second-largest living cat with some males weighing more than 550lb.
FiveThe African buffalo, buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large African bovine.
