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Thank You! November 2019

A giant-sized thank you to my big-hearted friends! I woke up this morning in the Chyulu Hills of south-eastern Kenya, a remote and beautiful wilderness between Tsavo East and Amboseli National Parks, presided over [...]

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Thank You! November 2019

A giant-sized thank you to my big-hearted friends! I woke up this morning in the Chyulu Hills of south-eastern Kenya, a remote and beautiful wilderness between Tsavo East and Amboseli National Parks, presided over [...]

Newsletter November 2019

All these exciting adventures make us feel like a lie-down! Safari specialists, Laura and Caroline have just returned from an incredible familiarisation and update tour of Hwange National Park and Victoria Falls, with stopovers in Matobo Hills [...]

Newsletter August 2019

Privately guided.  An exceptional African safari. George Bernard Shaw might have been describing John Stevens when he said that “A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.” Call [...]

Newsletter April 2019

Explore our great continent with a bold outlook, adventurous spirit  and romantic heart! When we say “safari”, does it conjure up all the romance and adventure of a bygone era? Vintage maps, a glint [...]

Sylvia Dolson, Joy of Bears

“If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.”
2018-06-25T16:22:53+00:00
“If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.”

Anon

“Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you've been all along.”
2018-06-13T17:55:59+00:00
“Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you've been all along.”

Karen Blixen

“There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and makes you feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.”
2018-06-25T16:24:43+00:00
“There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and makes you feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.”

Mark Twain

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
2018-06-25T16:29:07+00:00
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Richard Ferris Burton, Explorer 1821 – 1890

“The gladdest moment in human life is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.'
2018-06-13T14:46:08+00:00
“The gladdest moment in human life is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.'

Marcel Proust

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
2018-06-25T16:26:19+00:00
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Bill Bryson

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”
2018-06-25T16:29:37+00:00
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”

Charles Kingsley (Writer 1819 – 1875)

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
2018-06-25T16:24:08+00:00
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

Gustave Flaubert

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
2018-06-25T16:27:12+00:00
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

Bartle Bull, Safari. A Chronicle of Adventure

“Even today, to visit Africa is a feast for the senses. The bush literally brings one’s faculties to life, as you learn to see better, to smell for the first time, to be silent and to listen.”
2018-06-13T17:55:34+00:00
“Even today, to visit Africa is a feast for the senses. The bush literally brings one’s faculties to life, as you learn to see better, to smell for the first time, to be silent and to listen.”

Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
2018-06-25T16:28:31+00:00
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
2018-06-25T16:27:58+00:00
“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”

Anita Desai

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
2018-06-25T16:25:31+00:00
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

John Muir

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”
2018-06-13T17:56:23+00:00
“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”