WHY TAKE A SAFARI IN KENYA RATHER THAN IN NORTHERN TANZANIA?
If a safari will fall in the period from late July until October, then the best game viewing experience is quite likely to be in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Park where the wildebeest migration is then massed. Those taking a safari in Kenya or in northern Tanzania generally fly from Cairo directly to Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. There is an inexpensive shuttle bus service which carries passengers daily from downtown Nairobi to Arusha, Tanzania. The shuttle bus takes about five hours each way. It is from Arusha that safaris in northern Tanzania actually begin. If a safari is taken in Kenya rather than in Tanzania, some ten hours of shuttle bus riding can be avoided. Although Ethiopian Airlines flies from Cairo to Kilimanjaro International Airport, about an hour west of Arusha, air schedules usually necessitate an overnight in Addis Ababa. For travelers who would like to spend a day or so in the Ethiopian capital, this might have some appeal. But for those who just want
