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What Age

Ignoring the health issues, there is still much debate among even experts like safari operators about the age at which children will get most out of a holiday like this. One tour operator who has seen six-year-olds on these holidays remarks that ‘it is incredible how much children of that age absorb - much more than the adults. Trying to get adults interested in birds for example can be very difficult but children will pick out all the birds and their attention is so much better'. This seems to apply as much to city kids as those with more experience of time away from 20th century entertainments.

Another points out that babies as young as 3 months old are regularly taken on safaris by those who live locally. At the other end of the spectrum there are operators who feel only teenagers will be capable of enduring the experience, though the majority consensus seems to be to go for at least 8 years, and more generally 10 as a minimum. The real answer, as usual, seems to be that it depends entirely on the child and the parents.