An African photographic safari is likely one of the most intriguing, multi-layered vacation experiences imaginable. It starts with the place. Often remote, sometimes romantic, occasionally jaw-droppingly awesome. Then there’s the …
Eagle View Leopard Hill Camps
Eagle View The ideal safari destination is hard to pick but for first time visitors to Africa and to Kenya in particular, the Naboisho Conservancy just north of the Masai …
Basecamp Mara Kenya
Basecamp Mara Returning to Kenya’s Masai Mara is always exciting and so it was early last December when we arrived at Basecamp Mara in the Talek area, in the center …
Mara Nyika Camp Naboisho Kenya
Great Plains Conservation No two persons’ perfect safari is identical. And that is ok. Disagreeing on what constitutes an ideal African trip is pointless. It’s just like taste. About which …
Sanctuary Olonana Camp
Sanctuary Retreats Like the prelude to an opera, walking into Sanctuary’s Olonana Camp in the far northern part of Kenya’s Masai Mara, provides you with a glimpse of what’s to …
Cottar’s 1920s Camp
Cottar’s Cottar’s 1920s Camp in the far southeastern part of Kenya’s Masai Mara, right on the border of Tanzania, ticks all the boxes for an authentic, romantic, and above all …
Exploring Tsavo East and West
The Tsavo region of Kenya is often associated with a dreadful series of events immortalized in a book by John Henry Patterson (The Man-eaters of Tsavo), about two maneless man-eating …
Table Mountain
Starting as a child with my family and later with my wife and our two young boys, I spent many a summer holiday in Cape Town. For us up-country visitors, …
The orphan elephants of Ithumba, Kenya
At the foot of the Ithumba Hills in the thick green bush of Tsavo East, live 33 of the most fortunate, unfortunate young elephants in Africa. Most fortunate because they …
Strange wonderful Madagascar Part 2
At Berenty, in the south of Madagascar, the moment you step outside your room, you come face to face with the many reasons to visit Madagascar, and to shrug off …
