Imagine taking a stress-free family vacation to one of the world’s most adventurous destinations where you and your children share an opportunity to expand your imaginations and explore a world untouched by technology and heavy tourism. This place is South Africa.
Here, natural surroundings span as far as the eye can see, wildlife flourishes, and cultural and historical elements penetrate the atmosphere. There is nothing more inspiring than immersing your family into a natural environment that provides new sights, smells, sounds, and experiences.
As we rely more and more heavily on technology to fuel our minds and entertain us, we lose sight of each other and the world’s most powerful stimulations, found in only one place—nature. There is no television program, video game, website, or movie that can bring you and your family closer together and to exotic wildlife, indigenous cultures, and ground-breaking history than the real Africa.
Explore the fundamentals of family bonding as you venture halfway across the world to discover a new outlook on life and family.
Below are some ways to ensure that everyone in the family has the best time possible in Africa—the stress-free way:
Create Your Itinerary Together: Each family member should have a say in the itinerary of the trip. Getting the children involved in the process is a great way to prepare them for the trip and enable them to feel a part of the decision making. It’s also a great way to ensure everyone is happy and looking forward to the trip.
Mix it Up: When you’re creating your itinerary with your safari consultant, be sure to bring some variety to the vacation. Children can sometimes get bored if they’re repeating the same activity each day. If you’re going to be in South Africa, we suggest you spend time in Kruger National Park to go on safari, then travel to the Cape to see the city, museums, Dutch-inspired villages, and end your trip with the pristine beaches of South Africa.
Use a Private Safari Guide: A private safari guide gives your family the flexibility of having all your experiences focus primarily on your interests. Children can feel a sense of comfort with the guide and ask questions during the entire safari.
Whether you want to witness lion cubs as they playful paw each other, spend the morning tracking a pack of wild dogs, or ride with a herd of zebra or elephant, you may spend as much time viewing as you’d like with a private guide. On the other hand, if you’re participating in a group safari, the other guests may have already seen these sights and want to move on quickly to other experiences. You’re also not able to interact with the guide as much as when you’re on a private safari since other group participants might be asking the guide lots of questions.
Bring Journals: Before leaving for your trip, create or purchase journals for family members who want to participate in savoring experiences through words or drawing pictures of the wildlife they see. This activity facilitates creativity and encourages sharing and conversation with the whole family.
Give everyone a camera: Another way to make the kids feel involved in the trip is to provide each one with a camera (whether it’s digital, disposable, or kid-friendly). Then, when you arrive home from your trip, you can place all of your family photos into a photo album that everyone has contributed to. Your photo album can then serve as a coffee table book that will keep your guests entertained for hours!
Create a scavenger hunt for the kids: Before leaving for your trip to Africa, design a scavenger hunt for your children to take part in while on safari. For example, you could create a booklet with photographs of various African animals on each page with a little checkbox next to each photo. When your child is on safari and spots the animal or plant depicted in the photograph, they can check the box. This is a great way to get children engaged in safari and provide them with a goal for the trip.
Would you love to take your family on a South Africa family safari?
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