If you are a traveller like me, surely you´ll find it by yourself, but in case you are in a hurry during the journey from one Park to another, I would like to mention it to you now because without it your trip will be incomplete, and you´ll have missed some magic moments in a Safari. You only need: few minutes, some sweets and some pens (that you can buy in any of the villages you pass by) and a kind and respectful gesture. What you will be able to experience as a reward with these simple and cheap ingredients, it is never explained in the Safari´s itineraries, but believe me, it will be as pleasurable as seeing your favourite animal. I have forgotten something absolutely necessary: do not sleep during the displacements otherwise you´ll miss it.

If you pay attention to the road, you´ll have a lot of opportunities to observe the children who are looking after the cattle in the villages between the Parks. They will all look at you while you pass by. If you say hello to them they will answer you and besides the youngest they will hold out their hands asking for something, (tourist for them are a synonym of all the things they lack of). Then, you will only need to stop the car, offer them in swahili the sweets “Pipi” and suddenly you´ll see a lot of kids coming from everywhere to get them, and the smiles they will offer you when you hand them the sweets (please never throw the sweets from the car), will be the most precious smiles you have ever seen. Then, following your guide´s instructions, in order not to offend them you´ll be able to get some pictures that will remind you that those moments were real.

I´ve kept those moments deeply in my heart since my first Safari and it always move me when I think about them. Sometimes you can´t see in a Safari all the animals you wish to see (that is part of the adventure in a Safari), but if you want you´ll always be able to live these magic moments.

Wish you enjoy them as I do!