Your personal guide to Kruger National Park, South Africa

HOLIDAY KIT LIST

Pack sensibly and streamline your luggage to the bare essentials for your own comfort.  Aim to keep your bags as light and compact as possible, especially if you are planning to use small aircraft transfers. 

Choose practical, casual, comfortable wash and wear clothing. If you are planning to dine in upmarket city hotel restaurants and golf clubs a jacket and tie may be required. Hotels provide efficient same day laundry services, frequently within a few hours.

South African Safari Holiday Quick List

• Cotton shirts
• Casual, lightweight cotton shorts and long pants (neutral coloured clothes are best for safari holidays)
• A warm jacket and a fleece for evening or early morning game drives (it can be chilly!)
• Comfortable walking shoes
• Swim wear
• Personal toiletries
• Sunscreen lotion
• Binoculars, camera and accessories
• Sunglasses (UVB resistant)
• Wide brimmed hat
• Copies of passport, traveller’s cheques, credit cards

• Long sleeved shirts with a high neck, long trousers and socks
• Mosquito repellent – spray and stick form (to spray on mosquito net and clothes)
• Anti-malaria pills

• Windbreaker
• Sarong or beach towel (most self catering places don't provide beach towels)

Most people come back from holiday wishing their luggage had been a bit lighter. Aim to streamline to the bare essentials and keep your suitcase sleek and slender.

• Do some research. Contact the hotel, lodge, B&B or self catering house where you've booked and find out if they have a hairdryer, iron, beach towels, and bath towels – leave the cumbersome stuff that is best left at home.
• Find out about the climate and only pack what will be suitable.
• Choose a neutral colour (like brown or black) as a basic and pack accessories and other items that harmonise.
• Obey the numbers rule and pack for less than one week - one shirt per day, one layering fleece and jacket, one pair of pants for every two days, two pairs of shoes and underwear for every day. Utilize the laundry services of the hotel, the local Laundromat or do it yourself if you're travelling for more than a week.
• Pack travel-size toiletries - decant into small containers if necessary.
• Scrutinize everything on your bed before packing. Be ruthless and ditch whatever isn’t needed – you’ll be glad you did!

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