When Is the Best Time to Safari? An often-asked question. And the quick but accurate answer is: Now. Here’s why: East and Southern Africa don’t experience dramatic seasonal differences (like most of the Northern Hemisphere, for instance). In Kenya, of course, you can step across the equator, from summer into winter, without noticing the slightest change in the weather. But that holds largely true, eight and a half million straight-line footsteps, all the way south to Cape Town. If you take a look at our Classic Safaris (pages 71-131) you’ll see that we offer two to (usually) four or five safaris every month in East and
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Southern Africa, except April in East Africa. And remember, all those many more than 400 safaris are guaranteed departures. We safari year-round because the best time to safari is when you have the time to realize a travel dream. Because the wet and the drier times of year each have their own inimitable African charms, and because, year-round, Africa’s game lands are, as Peter Beard said, “a paradise caressed by light and air in their most spectacular forms.” (One paradisiacal sight: the long, golden streams of light that streak down from polished pewter clouds. Africans call them “fingers of God.” Photographers call them crepuscular rays, most of us call them sunbeams, and they are deeply memorable.)
