We have ridden in many years, but I thought I remembered reading that the ride no longer has the poaching scene. Just check to see if my special needs son needs to be prepared for it, if it is still in it. TIA!
No poaching scene any more. Only information about the animals. Sometimes they mention a brief fact about poaching. Something such as "these animals numbers have declined due to poaching", but it is very brief.
Important if seeing the stack of tusks and stuff bothered anyone. That is still there and often where the driver will bring up that is a never ending battleYea the poaching and story of Little Red has been gone for years now. You can still see some remaining items from the story, but there's no mention of that storyline anymore
This was 100% coincidence. You can ride at that exact time on another day and see more animals than ever before. There is no best time of the day to ride. If you take any tours of the park/area you will learn why. They feed the animals at all points of the day, not just a set time, to bait them to viewing areas. They move animals on and off the safari at all points of the day, to give them rest periods. So what you want is to tour when they've put food out but seeing how that's done randomly, it's not possible to plan for. That's the beauty of this ride, and what makes it unlike most all others, it's never the same twice.I would suggest riding earlier in the day. We normally ride before 10. This year, we rode at 11:30 and saw fewer animals out than usual. We went back at 5:30 pm, expecting to see more out and actually saw even fewer than the morning.