Safari Cont... What's the difference between a Safari and a Zoo?

While we Safaried through one of the biggest safaris in Kenya I couldn't help by notice a few things and since I haven't had time to get into it deeply; I pulled out the phone and jotted down some notes under the title, 
"The Illusion/Obsession/Folly of Natural/ Authentic."

• Safari's are premeditated and not natural. Animals are unnaturally attracted to the roads that we travel so that we may exercise our folly and consume the illusion of seeing the animals in their "natural environment". This underground molding and shaping of the natural so that it could live up to the perceptions of African safaris is done through the construction of space and place by the manipulation of them either through the landscape which provide shade, water and grass by the preset routes.
• There were Cellphone Towers in the middle of safari on a hill.
• There was a random mansion on an adjacent hill
• Every Safari truck that passed had the same components. There was an Africa Guide driving and anywhere from 2-6 Europeans in each car with their sunscreen and large lensed cameras. This is done for lack of a better word intensionally; if one were to look at the cost of "getting such a natural experience". Only some can afford such luxury.
• Power Dynamics/ Power to define
• Privilege and entitlement
• I felt that anyone who comes to Africa has a sense of this which Cheickna and I discussed and everyone else was being tricked by the "natural" experience. An experience in which we drive in metal protective trucks and never really interact with the safari. Back to privilege. I think that people on purpose come to Africa and other places like it in order to feel superior and on top of the world which is done through the economic systems which makes one dollar 80 Kenyan Shillings. The illusions that foreigners impose on Africa could not be done in France or those European countries that make more money on tourism because you cant jus be instantly rich coming from another country were as there is no African country in which you aren't guaranteed that your money will increase.
• Illusion of Safety while in the safari. If the animals really wanted to harm those that pass the metal cars that we are in wont safe us. Recently in Kenyan news there was a story about a safari truck that hit an elephant causing the elephant fall on the truck and crush everything. No one could approach to help because the other elephants came to rescue one of theirs.
• Tourist.
• Too much to say about them
• Compare the African Mask infatuation and decontextualization in Mali that has caused a whole side culture that is commodified and sold though it has nothing to do with the culture normally.
• In Countries that dont have autonomy offer it's economy depends on tourism for majority of it's income which gives great demand power to these tourist which few and any has used at all to benefit the people.
• Final remarks
• Programs like sit that try to essentialize an authentic experience might just be adding to stereotypes of these "3rd world" places and attains more personal or company gain then it gives back to these culture it is exploiting. 
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  I don't want to fall into the binaries of good and bad but we must critically  check the work our actions, perceptions and intrusion are doing to the cultures at large.