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The Safari Planning Workbook
Eight decisions, in the order they have to be made. Fill it in and you have a brief good enough to send to anybody — including us.
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Opens immediately. We will also send it to your email so you still have it next week.
What is inside
What the workbook covers
Eight decisions, in the order they have to be made. Fill it in and you have a brief good enough to send to anybody — including us.
- Why the order of the decisions matters more than the decisions
- Decision 1: the window you can actually travel in
- Decision 2: what you want to be true of the days
- Decision 3: how much per person per night
- Decision 4: how many countries
- Decision 5: how you move between places
- Decision 6: how much of the day you want structured
- Decision 7: who is in the party, and what that rules out
- Decision 8: what you will not compromise on
- The one-page brief, ready to send
No cost, no obligation. We ask for an email so we can send it and, if you want it, follow up once.
How it opens
The first page of The Safari Planning Workbook
Most safari planning goes wrong in the first hour, and it goes wrong the same way: somebody picks a camp.
A camp is the last decision, not the first. Pick it early and every later decision gets bent to accommodate it — the dates move to suit its availability, the route detours to reach it, the budget goes on a bed rather than on the land around the bed. This workbook exists to get the eight real decisions into the right order.
The rest is behind the form above
It opens straight away in your browser — no wait, no attachment, and it prints cleanly if you would rather have a file.
How it works
Three steps, about four minutes
Fill in the form
Dates and budget are optional here — if you only want the guide, name and email are enough.
Read it
It opens in your browser immediately and prints cleanly to PDF if you would rather have a file.
Ask us anything
If you told us your dates, our Africa specialist follows up within 24 hours with a tailored outline. If you did not, we send the guide and leave you alone.
About the download
Is it really free?
Yes. No payment, no card, no trial. We publish it because people who plan well are better to work with, and because some of them come back to us when they are ready.
Will you spam me?
No. If you give us dates, our specialist sends one tailored follow-up. If you do not, you get the guide and nothing else unless you ask. Every email has an unsubscribe link and we do not sell or share your details.
Do I have to book with you to use it?
No. It is written to be useful even if you plan the whole trip yourself or book elsewhere. It would be a poor advertisement if it were not.
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