If you want to do a safari honeymoon in Africa, the best places to go are Tanzania and Kenya. There are also some wonderful safaris in South Africa, but East Africa has the best safaris, with Tanzania offering less crowded game parks and Kenya offering more animal sightings.

Most people find a three-day safari in one game park to be enough to get a feel for the place and see most types of animals in that game park. If you have time, it is worth while to visit more than one game park, since they can vary greatly in the animals you will see and overall landscape.

Most international flights will land in Nairobi or Mombassa. From there you will have two options for transportation to the game parks. There are two main options - you can drive to the parks or you can fly to the parks.

If you are planning on long safari honeymoon, you should consider doing a round-trip tour with a driver and a guide to several game parks. It can take at least half a day or a full day to drive between game parks, but it also offers a chance to see the landscape and stop at villages. Most of the roads are not very good and the ride can be very bumpy. If you are doing this, it is worth having a driver and a guide, because it is difficult to focus on finding animals and driving at the same time. Since you have to find the animals, it is worth having an expert focused only on that task.

If you have less time for your safari honeymoon, you should consider flying to the parks. Most flights are relatively inexpensive at around $150 round-trip. You will then be picked up by a driver and a guide to tour the park. The guide will usually be organized by the lodge where you are staying in the park. The downside is that you usually can't fly from one game park to another. You usually have to fly back to Nairobi or another major city and since they don't have many flights during the day, it often means that you have to overnight in the city, which is not that great.

In the game parks , there are usually two main options for accommodations: lodges and tented camps. The lodges tend to have the full amenities of a hotel. The tented camps are a little more rustic, since you have outhouses for bathrooms, but you do have a full mattress bed with a wooden frame. If you want to take a shower, you have to ask someone to get you hot water, which they raise up in a tree and gets piped into your tended shower stall. It's actually quite fun. The lodges usually have many more guests than the tended lodges, so the tented lodges might be more appropriate for a secluded safari honeymoon adventure.

For a pretty good safari honeymoon, including lodging, food and the guide, you should expect to pay about $1200-$1500 for two people for every three days. Any honeymoon should probably also include a little relaxation. There are some beautiful resorts on the East African beaches, including Lamu Island and some places just north and south of Mombassa. We feel an ideal safari honeymoon should include 2 three-day safaris in different game parks and 1 three-day (or more) beach vacation on the Indian Ocean.