{"id":235,"date":"2008-11-04T22:26:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T22:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/withinrch.wordpress.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2008-11-04T22:26:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T22:26:49","slug":"benefits-of-traveling-to-east-africa-in-low-season-april-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2008\/11\/04\/benefits-of-traveling-to-east-africa-in-low-season-april-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Traveling to East Africa in Green Season (April-May)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventureswithinreach.com\/kenya\/tours\/safari_itineraries.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Elephant in Amboseli, Kenya\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adventureswithinreach.com\/images\/blog\/tz_safari_elephant1.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"Elephant in Amboseli, Kenya\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elephant in Amboseli, Kenya<\/p><\/div>\n<p>April and May is the low season in East Africa, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventureswithinreach.com\/tz\/safari\/\">Tanzania<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventureswithinreach.com\/kenya\/tours\/safari_itineraries.html\">Kenya<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventureswithinreach.com\/ugandarwanda\/\">Uganda<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventureswithinreach.com\/ugandarwanda\/\">Rwanda<\/a>.\u00a0 This is actually a great time to visit and here are some of the benefits and drawbacks to consider.<\/p>\n<h3>PROS<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Discounts on lodging (SEE BELOW)<\/li>\n<li>No crowds<\/li>\n<li>Easy to get gorilla permits<\/li>\n<li>Although it&#8217;s rainy season, it typically doesn&#8217;t rainy all day every day (not a monsoon)<\/li>\n<li>Flights are generally cheaper<\/li>\n<li>Wildebeest migration typically in middle to western Serengeti (easy to get to)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>CONS<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Some days may be cloudy, which does not make the best photographs<\/li>\n<li>Some smaller safari camps and Zanzibar hotels close down<\/li>\n<li>Some roads in the Serengeti become muddy and impassible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>LOW SEASON DISCOUNTS<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>On Tanzania safaris, book luxury lodging and pay standard hotel prices, or book standard hotels and pay basic camping prices<\/li>\n<li>Kenya safaris get a 15% discount<\/li>\n<li>Zanzibar hotels offer discounts of 10% or more<\/li>\n<li>In Rwanda, the Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge is discounted 20%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April and May is the low season in East Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda.\u00a0 This is actually a great time to visit and here are some of the benefits and drawbacks to consider. PROS Discounts on lodging (SEE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2008\/11\/04\/benefits-of-traveling-to-east-africa-in-low-season-april-may\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safari","category-tanzania"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xxsg-3N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}