Kenya Packing List Tips by Myndo Top 5 Page for this destination

Clothing on Safari

Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: Color of the clothes: not black (this gets too hot in the sun), not white (this gets dirty in seconds), not to bright colors (this will shy away the animals). Use earth colors, shades of green etc.
Lenght of the clothes: I choose long clothes, because every piece of skin that you leave at the sun will get sunburned even with sun cream. Also long clothes do shade you, so you don?t get too hot (I know this sounds like a contradiction, but so it is), Long sleeves can be rolled up, there are trousers you can shorten with the zippers they have. Also long clothes are good, because it can get cold in the evening or early morning.
Hat: this is a must.
Sunglasses.
Shoes: take good shoes with soles that don?t slip. The thorns of a lot of bushes are so thick, they penetrate even tires.
Also take a thick pullover or jacket with you. In higher areas as well as deserts temperatures can go to the freezing point in the night, even if it is over 30 degrees during the day.

Toiletries and Medical Supplies: Take with you some toilet paper or like.

Photo Equipment: come prepared with enough film and batteries to last through your holidays.

Miscellaneous: the picture shows my husband by the way. he is normally very much the shorts and t-shirt type, but on safaris even he gets serious :-) he wears trekking sandals because of his inflamated toe (that is the white one -lol)

Website: http://www.african-safari-journals.com/safari-clothing.html

What to bring with you on safari

Luggage and bags: Choose light ones over hardcase. A lot of air carriers (and African Safari Clubs is one of them) will charge you extra for every kilo that it hurts.
They also have limitations that are very low, for the normal tourist class you can bring 23 kilos with you, that is INCLUSIVE the hand luggage that they will also weight!
If you go on safari with the small airplanes, the limit you can take per person is normally 10 kilogramms also inclusive handluggage.

Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: Necessary:
Clothes (see Tip there) with Pullover or Jacket,
Good shoes (if you go on safari: trekking shoes or sandals),
floppies for the beach (never get barefoot in Kenya, you may pick up some nasty things)
Hat !
Maybe something waterproof

Toiletries and Medical Supplies: A must:
- Sunglasses
- Sun creme (with a factor over 20!)
- Insect repellent (with DEET or Bayrepel, forget the citronella stuff)
- Malaria Medication (see danger Tipp Malaria), Malarone it is for Kenya
- Travelmedication: whatever you need to take anyway at home also: something against Pain and Fever, Desinfectant, Antiallergic cream (Fenistil), Pincette, Fever thermometer (important, how else can you say you may have caught malaria or dengue fever?), something against diarrhoe (Imodium), something against getting seasick or airsick (itinerol), If you travel individually it is also a good idea to bring needle and syringe and an Antibiotic (ask your doctor).

Photo Equipment: of course!
Don?t rely on buying film down here. The heat, moisture and unproffesional storekeeping do damage a lot of what you get here, so bring enough with you.
Digital cards: I saw not much places where you could get them. Not in the hotels and certainly not on safari, maybe in Mombasa and Nairobi, but... hmmm, better take a big enough with you.
Same goes for the batteries: take enough with you, bring your charger for the accu, remember not every safari camp does have electricity all the time.

Camping/Beach/Outdoor Gear: Flashlight
Earplugs (some camps are quite loud at night with all the bugs and birds...)
Desinfectant for the hands
Toiletpaper

Miscellaneous: Clock with timer
Something to wash the clothes on the safari