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Photo safaris rarely use tented camps except for the cheap ones I assume glamping safaris are now readily available as well.

I've always done cheaper ones. Budget camping in Tanzania. Overland through Kenya Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe, Botswana then back to Zimbabwe from the SW.

We set up our own tents, etc Often cooked ourselves. The Kenyan budget your had a driver, a cook, a helper.

The normal luxury safari stays in bandas, chalets,often usually air conditioning ensuites, swimming pools, restaurants. Lots and lots of facilities. Lots of staff.

Hunting camps can be camping setups.To similar to the tourist safari luxury resorts. I've never been in a luxury resort type, except as a visitor. Booked chalets at Parks camps in Zimbabwe. Zambezi Riverside cottages in Zambia. Also thatched roof tents on the Zambezi banks. Plus tented camps. Farm houses in Namibia or the small town hotel. Cottages in the Matetsi. Farm house in the Gwayi.

Some hunters want the tented camp. It'd be cool in the Selous. I'm happy to have solid wall and thatched roof "luxury" in estabused camps Ceiling fans orvait conditioning keep it cooler if there's power. I unfortunately do need electricity at night even if from a battery as I've needed a CPAP to breathe for decades. I don't havevacrestful see without it. Even then I might not. Makes wilderness hunting difficult But batteries are far more common now in the od days I'd ask the outfitter to run the generator over night at my cost. One of the directors of Nengasha Safaris even had a UPS battery in camp for the same reason, but only at the last camp, last night I was there after a vehicle breakdown.

Back to footprints. The tourist safari needs a helmif a ot more resources to operate.

And the harassment to wildlife is often terrible. A hundred a hundred and fifty tourist vehicles chasing after some cheetahs, lions, a tiger ...

Tourist safaris will not operate in the rougher, tougher,less accessible parks and reserves.

Tanzania has only five tourist parks which make a profitable income. But over thirty or far more hunting concessions which if they don't make a profit change hands

The fantasy of ending hunting would result in a collapse of wildlife populations in the third word.

The meat goes to camp rations. Might gontolocal populations. Some of h elephants went to the camp. Some for the local chief. The rest completely used by locals who left nothing but a brown stain behind. Meat in some places is sold on the market. South Africa hunters shoot a lot for biltong

Rarely is the meat not used completely. The black staff in the Matetsi even wanted a disgusting several days old kudu Coe found in a snare. Taken as leopard bait. I guessed I wasnt shooting benough other game, was hunting buffalo. So we took a day off and I shot an impala and a zebra

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