Talk:Kisoro

Milestone Safaris

On the face of it, listing entries like the one below may seem contrary to the letter of Wikivoyage:Listings#Tour_listings

• Milestone Safaris, ☏ +256 782 776 533, apollocheers@yahoo.com. Daily 07:00-18:00. Specialises in snake safaris starting from Kisoro town to Lake Mutanda. You are likely to see deadly black mambas, 5m (16 ft) long rock pythons, spitting cobras and, possibly, green mambas.
  If you're a lazy muzungo, they also offer game drive safaris in air-conditioned 4x4s taking up to 3 people per vehicle into the southern part of the Queen Elizabeth National Park's Ishasha sector where you will almost invariably see the famous pride of tree-climbing lions. For this game drive, you'll leave Kisoro at 08:00 and travel to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to try to spot forest elephants, chimpanzees and, very occasionally, the rare and elusive L'Hoest's monkey (Cercopithecus lhoesti). Generally you will not leave the safety of your 4x4 because of the danger from giant forest pigs which can grow up to 2.1m (6.9 ft) in length and can tip the scales at more than 270kg (60 lb). 

However, I believe that the danger and difficulty for non-locals trying to fulfil the substance of these tours independently, means that it is very much to the advantage of travellers to include them.

Black mambas and spitting cobras are usually assessed as being the most lethally poisonous of all reptiles, a bite from the former almost certainly resulting in death unless anti-venom and intensive care is rendered within minutes. When you add to that the fact that the black mamba is the fastest moving of all the snakes then the risk of independent searching is simply too high for most travellers to countenance. Giant forest hogs are perhaps not quite in the same category of lethality, but the locals fear them more than almost any animal because of their reputation for unprovoked attacks. Since it is difficult for a visitor to wade through the lengthy bureaucracy of obtaining a firearm licence for self defence and then finding the overgrown trails, for almost all independent travellers it will not be practicable or safe to fulfil the substance of such a tour. I believe the above listing also qualifies under the specified exception of "required due to exceptional danger...".

Consequently I propose to make the above listing (currently HTML remarked out) visible if there are no valid objections. --197.157.0.21 07:17, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Since there have been no objections, I've now made the listing visible. -- Alice^✉ 23:01, 7 June 2014 (UTC)