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What The Land Permits
A single table you can hold against any itinerary: five kinds of land, eight permissions, and what each answer costs you.
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What is inside
What the table covers
A single table you can hold against any itinerary: five kinds of land, eight permissions, and what each answer costs you.
- Why the camp cannot promise this
- National park
- National reserve
- Private conservancy
- Community conservancy
- Private concession
- The permissions table
- Six questions to ask about any camp
- What each arrangement costs
No cost, no obligation. We ask for an email so we can send it and, if you want it, follow up once.
How it opens
The first page of What The Land Permits
A brochure says walking, night drives, a private vehicle, and a maximum of four cars at a sighting. Most of that is not the camp’s to promise. It is a property of the land the camp stands on, set by a statute or written into a lease, and it changes at a boundary you will never see from the vehicle.
Understanding tenure converts an itinerary from a list of pretty names into a list of permissions. That is the whole of this document.
The rest is behind the form above
It opens straight away in your browser — no wait, no attachment, and it prints cleanly if you would rather have a file.
How it works
Three steps, about four minutes
Fill in the form
Dates and budget are optional here — if you only want the guide, name and email are enough.
Read it
It opens in your browser immediately and prints cleanly to PDF if you would rather have a file.
Ask us anything
If you told us your dates, our East Africa specialist follows up within 24 hours with a tailored outline. If you did not, we send the guide and leave you alone.
About the download
Is it really free?
Yes. No payment, no card, no trial. We publish it because people who plan well are better to work with, and because some of them come back to us when they are ready.
Will you spam me?
No. If you give us dates, our specialist sends one tailored follow-up. If you do not, you get the guide and nothing else unless you ask. Every email has an unsubscribe link and we do not sell or share your details.
Do I have to book with you to use it?
No. It is written to be useful even if you plan the whole trip yourself or book elsewhere. It would be a poor advertisement if it were not.
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