Safari lodges and camps price per room, not per person, which means solo travelers on a private itinerary typically pay a 'single supplement' — often 30-70 percent above the per-person twin-share rate — to cover the room cost a shared booking would split. Joining a scheduled small-group departure sidesteps this almost entirely, since you share a vehicle and often a room-share option with other solo travelers, at a meaningfully lower total cost than booking private. On safety specifically: East Africa's safari circuit is genuinely one of the more straightforward regions for solo travelers, including solo women, precisely because you are almost never actually alone — you are with a private guide or small group, inside a managed camp, for the entire trip, a fundamentally different risk profile than independent backpacking. That said, sensible practices apply as anywhere: confirm airport transfers are pre-arranged rather than arriving to arrange transport on the spot, choose camps with 24-hour staff presence, and avoid walking unescorted after dark even within a fenced property, since wildlife (not people) is the relevant risk at night in bush camps. We routinely arrange solo trips and can match you into small-group departures specifically to reduce cost without any compromise on the experience itself.