Originally Posted by Nanook
My most important question regards shoes...do I really need to take my heavy hiking boots or will a comfortable pair of regular shoes work just as well? I've read a lot of the safari trip reports and it seems that there won't be a lot of walking while at the Lodge. Is that correct? I don't want to pack big, bulky, heavy shoes and would love to leave them at home.
Does the airline hand out visa forms to fill out on the flight or can we only get them at the airport? Would love to avoid a line, but as we're flying in on BA from London and sitting in first class, I doubt there'll be much of a line when we get off unless other flights come in ahead of us. I've looked at the Kenya Airways site and filled out the form and pressed "Prepare Application" but I keep getting an error message.
No need for hiking shoes at all (unless you're on a walking safari which I venture less than 1% of game viewers do), and casual clothes are perfectly fine. What you need is something comfortable to stand in. You'll be doing a lot of that.
KQ never handed out any visa forms for JNB-NBO so not sure if the other airlines do. BTW, just print
this form and fill it out. What you are risking are the KQ and KL flights from LHR and AMS beating yours in.