Long safaris make a traveler spend more days on a trip. He or she can take a month or more months on a trip. On the other hand, some travelers spend few days on a trip hence enjoying short trips. Short trips can take a single day or 3-4 days.
Depending on some one’s budget, interest and schedule, some one can decide whether to go for a long safari or short trip. However, its advantageous to discuss merits and demerits of having long tours and short trips.
Merits of long trips:
Long trips enable a traveler (s) explore more places of his or her interest. Its advantageous to plan a long trip to be able to visit many places hence getting deep meaning of adventure.
The traveler (s) is enriched with more knowledge about different location, tourist attractions, people and business among other things. As you stay long on the trip, you get time to concentrate on perceiving knowledge from different sources.
You can get enough time to relax – since the trip is long, there is no need of rushing from one point to another. Get time to relax after activities to be able to refresh or get guts that will enable you participate in other activities.
Long trips enable tourists make more discoveries – since there is no rushing, a traveler get to new different destinations, makes analysis about them. For example, long trips enable tourists’ study more about primate trekking in Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo among other countries. Gorilla trekking is the key activity in primates.
Its healthier to enjoy long trips – among the activities enjoyed on long trips include hiking, mountain climbing and so on. Such activities enable tourist gain physical fitness hence improving health of the participants.
Travelling becomes way cheaper in terms of accommodation and cheaper sources of basic needs. Staying in one place for long enables you discover areas where cheap items are sold, discount on accommodation and food staffs among others.
While on a long trip, you will find it inevitable to learn local languages spoken in that location. Since you will be interacting with locals for longer period of time, you will slowly gain the interest of learning more about the local people around. Also expect to learn their culture and so on.
Freedom of choosing your best travel season. Since you are a long-time traveler, you can decide the best travel period with no rain/ worst time. In other words, you can a void winter season and utilize summer season.
Building strong relationship – travelling enable us meet new people and building a relation ship is inevitable. Staying long with new people strengthen the relationship that can last for long. For example, you can hire local guides and the more you stay with them, the more you build strong bond with them.
Short coming of long trips:
Long times may turn expensive if not well budgeted for. That is why we always recommend the assistance of your financial managers and travel agents to see how you can spend less on long trips. The more days you spend on trips, the more expenditures incurred and the reverse is true. You will spend on more days and nights in terms of tourist activities, shelter, food and basic needs among others.
If not well planned, long trips bores – its therefore advisable to use experienced and knowledgeable guides. Staying in one area for long and monotonizing activities may call for boredom but when guided by knowledgeable persons, they can revise the demerit to merit.
Long trips are tiresome especially when it involves activities which requires serious physical fitness like hiking, mountaineering, primate trekking and nature walks among others.
On the other hand, short trips take few days like 1, 2, 3 or one week. Just like long trips, short trips are also advantageous as discussed below:
Short trips are so convenient in terms of saving time – for travelers on tight schedule, booking a short trip is important. One day Gorilla trip in Rwanda is among the short tours tourists to tight schedule can enjoy.
Short trips save money – you can spend few days and nights on a trip to save money. Short trips are suitable for travelers on budget.
You can break your trips to visit different countries. For example, you can do 1 day Gorilla trip on Rwanda, 3 days in Uganda, 5 days in Kenya and 4 days in Tanzania. It will help you reach many places for exploration.
Demerits of short trips:
The trip is full of rushing to catch time. Rushing on the trip may cause accidents on road and you can also miss the views of some interesting places and moments. It’s important to make proper planning under the guidance of well knowledgeable local guides.
Travelers can also miss out some important moments and views while on short trips. You can miss out taking photos of particular places, attractions among others.
There is less time for relaxation as you try to finish up activities in time. For example, travelers on 1 day Gorilla tour in Rwanda, wake up early for Gorilla trekking and after the trek, they are driven direct to Kigali Airport to depart.
Less discovery – in most cases, short trips are just a summery of activities to be done in few hours or days. For that case, you will not go deep in discovering different places and activities.
