How To Choose the Best Driver Guide For Your Safari

Posted on 17/06/201929/04/2025 by admin

Having the best driver guide is significant for a successful and enjoyable safari to Africa and the world. The tourism industry has become wider, and countless driver guides have joined to serve. However, travelers are reminded that not all driver guides are good. Some are starters with no experience while others have no ethics towards people. A driver guide should have rightful driving/guiding skills, customer care service, and social characters that are worth being with. You MUST, therefore, choose the best guide to take you around. Gorilla Trek Africa has the best driver guides in Uganda, Rwanda Congo that every traveler is worth having. Choosing the best driver guide can be quite challenging since you do not see their qualities by looks. Gorilla Trek Africa offers you guidance on choosing the best safari guide. Among the things we consider while choosing driver guides are:

Passion and confidence
Passion and confidence are what drives every successful career. A driver guide should have a desire to give rightful information and answers to all travelers’ questions and requests. About confidence, a driver guide should know what he/she is talking about; it’s unfortunate that some travelers have fallen victims of wrong information. Whether it’s about animals, bird, plants, people or usual lifestyle like politics, a driver guide should tell the truth with clarity. A sense of humor is very vital, a driver guide must listen and look close to the reactions of clients whenever he/she is uttering out information. In other words, a driver guide must engage travelers in all conservations, ask questions and options from travelers to make a trip enjoyable, driver guide who lectures is undeniably boring.

Safe and stable driving skills
Not anyone who knows how to move a steer is a driver! A good driver guide must have safe and stable driving skills to maneuver and manage African bumpy roads. Also, driving style and rules are different in each destination. For example in Uganda, driving is on the left while in Rwanda it’s on the right. A driver guide must have skills of driving in both countries with no difficulty. He or she must no all rules of the road both written and unwritten and able to read road signs ahead. More so, a driver guide should have road maps in his/her head to be able to drive through slippery roads, broken bridges, and deals with all other road obstacles that you may face on your African Safari.

Be flexible
A good driver guide must be flexible with his/her schedule and itinerary. A rigid driver guide ruins a trip. In case of unavoidable circumstances like a collapsed bridge and traffic jam among other hindrances, a drive guide must be able to find an alternative. He/he must be able to adjust to the present situation and deal with it without any fears. This makes travelers safe and confident throughout the trip.

Time Manager and Organized
A driver guide must be a time manager and never gets late. Whether it’s a pickup or drop off, a good drive guide must keep time. Time management helps travelers do all activities in time without missing anything.

Be sensitive
Sensitivity in driver guiding is all about knowing the likes and dislikes of a client. A driver guide must be sensitive to the needs of clients at all times on a safari. Also, a guide’s sensitivity to clients needs help clients to get the best services on lodges and other accommodation facilities. A driver guide should know to do what and when for the satisfaction and wellbeing of a client. You must know when to put the Air conditioner in a car when to give clients snacks, water, and other needs on a safari for traveler’s satisfaction.

Informative
A travel guide must have all the information that a traveler requires on a safari. During the safari, a driver guide is an encyclopedia of clients. He or she is a source of information and possible answers for all questions that a client has. Diver guides are expected to know all information about plants, animals, history, birds, people, politics, a lifestyle which all make a safari lively and fun.

Honesty
You cannot rule out honesty when considering a driver guide. He/he should be honest and trust worth with money and client’s properties.

In general, having a good driver guide is key to a successful and enjoyable safari experience. Travel with Gorilla Trek Africa, have the best driver guide and enjoy the rest of your trip at affordable prices.