According to Students at the University of Greenwich London, a couple of nights out on the town could set you back in the region of £300 quid – the cost of a safari in Kenya. So don’t blow all your cash on the tequilas – catch up with the Big Five in Africa’s wildlife capital and answer the call of the wild at
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I grew up in Kenya, my father is a doc and when I was a kid he was working for WHO and I lived with him for about 8 years, until at the age of 18 I went to Europe to university.
I still own a little place on an island on the north coast and I still have many good friends there. Beside kiswahilii I also speak a bit of kikuyu and somali and I think I have been in most places worth seeing of the old British East Africa, and I even wrote some books and a few guides about the area.
Some of my friends are in the business of organizing safaris (which btw is just the swahilii word for "trip") for western tourists, and this is why I feel quite confident in telling to anyone who wants to listen that a safari in east Africa for 300 quid is bound to be as real as an 11 dollars bill.
Unless the safari is gonna be less than 3 days on a park just ouside Nairobi, the price does not include airfare, or food or some such rip off.
Be extra careful because the latest tourist laws in Kenya allow anyone willing to pay a little bribe to the ministry of tourism to became a "tourist operator or agent" and scandals, rip offs and various horror stories have since became commonplace and source of much hilarity among the locals.