What is extra, and what is simply yours
Two different things get called photos on a safari day. The first is the base team's own photo and video service, which sits on the extras list beside goggles, a bandana and the food and drinks: sold there, paid there, not in the fare. The second is whatever you shoot yourself.
The fare covers the round-trip hotel transfer, the vehicle, the helmet, the three briefings and the practice drive — €30 per adult on the Buggy Safari, €25 on the Quad Safari. Pictures sit outside it both ways: buying the team's photos is optional, and bringing a phone is a condition of nothing.
Filming while you drive: why we would not
Nothing here is a rule we can quote at you — the rules that count are the ones in the briefings. But read what the safety briefing asks of a driver: follow the guide, keep a safe distance, stop where the guide stops, react to the guide's signals. On uneven ground every one of those needs two hands.
The buggy is automatic, a wheel and pedals; the quad has a thumb throttle, so on a quad the hand you would film with is the hand on the throttle. And the practice drive is where the guide decides whether you drive the main safari at all. Turning up to it one-handed is the wrong first impression.
Dust is what actually beats a camera
The dust here is not a film on a bonnet. It comes off the wheels of the vehicle ahead and hangs in the air behind them — exactly where your lens points if you shoot the group — and it finds the gap around a phone's lens glass and the charging port.
The mistake that ruins a lens is wiping it dry. Fine grit plus a dry T-shirt equals fine scratches, and they show for the rest of the holiday as haze around every bright light. The cure weighs nothing:
- A zip bag that actually seals — the dust arrives through the air
- A clean microfibre cloth kept inside it
- A wet wipe for your hands, used before the cloth touches glass
- A pocket that closes, so nothing leaves the vehicle over a bump
- Nothing you would mind scratching
The water-splash stops, and why nobody can tell you where they are
The course includes water-splash stops and small stream crossings. Where they fall on your day is not published here and not knowable in advance: this is a private off-road course inland from the Side coast, the route belongs to the guide, and conditions are never the same twice.
The physics is predictable, though. Water leaves your own wheels and the wheels in front sideways and upward, carrying grit with it. So the sequence is dull: sealed while the wheels turn, out once the group has stopped. Shots taken through your own dust from a vibrating seat are rarely looked at twice.
Where photographs actually work: the base, before and after
The best pictures of the day are the least athletic ones. At the base the vehicles are parked, your hands are free and nothing is shaking: the buggies with their tubular frame around the seats and, on some of them, a fabric canopy above it; your group before anybody is dirty.
The after picture exists only because changing cabins and showers at the base are included in every fare — shoot the filthy group first, shower second. One note on light, and only about light: a photograph can tell the three departures apart by it and by nothing else, because the afternoon departure at 13:00 ends under a lower sun. The route, the fare and the driving do not move with the clock, and choosing between them has its own page.
Buying the base team's photos and video
They are sold at the base and paid at the base, and that is the whole of what this site can honestly say. No price, no format, no number of pictures and no delivery time appears anywhere here, because nobody at this end has verified one — and an invented figure is one you would hold us to at the base.
Nobody has to buy anything. But be clear what the choice is between: your own pictures are the ones taken standing still, at the base, before and after, because that is where hands are free. Out on the course a driver's hands are on the controls and a passenger's are holding on — including a child aged 6–10 on the Quad Safari or the family buggy safari — so if pictures of the driving itself exist, they are the base team's. Ask at the base, look at them, and decide there.