nemo...we are just starting to do some research on Kenya, Tanzania, and Morocco for the winter after next.
Have you been there? Any comments? Just picked up Rough Guide's First Time Africa and Fodor's African Safaris from the library. The Rough Guide is essentially a guide to Africa, where to go, where is safe, where not, etc. Seems good so far. Will go to web next.
Kenya I'd personally avoid.....my late wife & I were there in the mid 1980s and it was like Disneyworld....went to the Mara, (saw the migration), Amboseli, et al.......posted a pic somewhere here with a bunch of minivans, (I counted twenty in all), around a sleeping lion that didn't even bother to wake up.....place was just totally overrun with tourists then, and I imagine it's ten times as bad now...at least.
The Ark we enjoyed.....the people who attended, (it's a night viewing venue), who made a lot of noise, after being advised repeatedly by the Kenyan woman, who guided hunts as well as being a resource there, that noise would discourage some of the animals, not so much......we stayed two nights, and were the only people there during the day, (no tourists had yet arrived, and the staff had gone home until the evening), and although the nocturnal animals weren't around we just enjoyed the 'ambience'.
The Ark
Safety....at that time, in Nairobi, they were advising tourists who wanted to visit an adjacent hotel at night, (even one that could be hit by throwing a stone from theirs), to take a cab......what it's like now I have no idea.
Tanzania...went to the Selous early 1988, down on the Rufiji River...enjoyed that...rustic riverfront camp...(Ownership of which has since changed hands at least once to my knowledge):
But...since then the Selous has become
much more of a tourist destination.......the animals there at that time were actually 'wild' and not blasé (see Kenya/lion comment).
Also went to Mikumi Wildlife Camp 'just' outside Dar.......liked that, but again it's more than 29 years ago. (Oh, at the Mikumi restaurant we tried Tanzanian
Dodoma Red wine.......it was putrid......people at an adjacent table said they were from the Canadian Embassy and had been telling a friend who had just arrived about this purported 'wine'. They asked if she could try a glass of ours.......we told them she could have the whole **** bottle!)
Morocco....have only been to Tangier, (in 1969 and again in 1988), and Agadir......so can't help you.
We
did like Botswana......DW and I were there about 8 years ago......first place I got to see African Wild Dogs, after looking for them all over.
Lagoon Camp, Kwando Lagoon, River Safari
Would also like to go to Zambia.
Hope this, albeit dated, info is of some assistance.