If you plan for a safari in Tanzania you may ask yourself about how proper ablution facilities is maintained on safari in Tanzania. The answer of your questions you will get from a company you are choosing. If you will book on poor or unauthorized tour company the service also will be poor where they will not use quality camping gears.
Us we know that in national parks there are no toilets or bathroom but all visitors will sleep in hotels or lodge where there are bathrooms and toilets. When you are far from hotels or lodges you will have portable toilets on camps or use of bushes where is safe. What to do is to make sure that you are follow all instructions from your guide.
So that make sure that you are booking on the best tour company like Africanaturaltours in order to be transfer in quality hotels or lounge where you will get better abulation facilities. But make sure you prepare enough budget to get better services.
Always you should know that when you are on safari in Tanzania you will sleep in camps, hotels, guests and Lodges. However, the hotels available in all the Tanzanian national parks and reserves have full bathroom, toilets facilities. But when you are out on safari you can use the public or portable toilets or you will use bushes.
But also, if you are not near to public toilets and you need to pee or to poop you may ask a driver or guide to stop the car and you may go at the bush.
The guides or drivers should look the safe area to stop the car in order to give you the time to help yourself. The main priority of safari guides is to ensure their customers are safe from starting point to end of destination.
Always the best tour company will have the quality camping gear. The quality camping equipment has high quality including private bathroom with portable toilets, sink and shower. The camping facilities and toilets on safari are more important during safari.
Some companies provide the chance of renting portable toilets during safari more for private travelers. But when the clients are in group they only can use public toilets available in national parks.
Good personal hygiene is one of the best ways to protect yourself from getting diseases or any other infectious diseases like cholera. Making personal hygiene all the time can make you to be protected from diseases. Therefore you should wash your hands with soap. But also maintaining good personal hygiene will also help prevent you from spreading diseases to other people.
Your guides they should ensure that the camp is maintained to hygiene. Safari guides are responsible to follow some basic common sense rules in order to make sure that they keep you safe at your safari.
Personal hygiene includes
• Cleaning your body every day even twice per day.
• Washing your hands with soap after going to the toilet
• Washing your hands before eating
• Brushing your teeth
• Covering your mouth and nose with a tissue or wearing face mask when sneezing or coughing this can help to protect you from air diseases.
• Washing your hands after doing any activities like handling animal pets, eating and so on
What to know and do for personal hygine on safari
a) Bring sufficient supplies with you like wipes, pads, toilet papers etc.
b) Make sure to bring brown paper bags to put solid items
c) Don’t leave used items behind if you have to go to toilets on game driving
d) Do not put solid under ware in the laundry basket for the staff to wash it yourself
e) If you are out of hotels, lodge, restaurants, guests or camp tell your guide that you need to find a bush.
f) Always go to the toilets at the lodge before leaving
g) Wash your hand thoroughly with clean water