Rothschild Safaris | Expert Safari Guides

An expert safari guide can be the make-or-break of your experience.

This is true not just of African safari guides, but escorts of all kinds through a wide range of adventures. Creating a captivating, rewarding, safe and memorable journey through the bush, along waterways, into the mountains, amongst city streets or ancient ruins is the test of an adept guide; and this isn’t as simple as you might think.

Proper effective guiding takes a great deal of experience, training and dedication, particularly in the African wilderness, with qualifications sometimes taking five years or more to complete.

But even the most educated of students may not make the grade, the execution of a safari equally as important as the wisdom gained.

So what makes a masterful African safari guide? Let’s begin at the beginning:

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