Celebrating a #plasticfreejuly in Africa ~ will you take The Pledge? Great Plains Conservation has pledged to remove single-use plastics from all their camps – and not just for July. As of the end of this month, they will take the great leap into a […]
Category: Safaris
If We Could Be More Like Elephants, the World Would Be a Better Place
The lessons from the wild are often picked up unconsciously, over time, and through an immersion in its natural expanse. And then someone comes along and asks you a few probing questions and you realise how the wisdom of the wild has found its […]
The Foraging Flâneur – The Charm of a Giraffe Named Oscar
There was talk of a tall, handsome man about town roaming the wilderness of Epako Safari Lodge in Omaruru, Namibia, where we found ourselves one April afternoon. The man went by the name of Oscar. Oscar Wilde in the wild. Yet, he was in […]
I Still Remember You After All These Years ~ Oh, Kenya…
The Call of the Wild I remember a lot about our time together. Kenya and I. The places she took me, the nights under the stars, the quiet of her expanse in the Chyulu Hills and the energy of her wildness in the Maasai Mara. […]
A Philosophy of Wellness in the Okavango Wild
The Wellness Safari “There is a saying in Botswana; ‘Botho’ – which is a catch-all for ‘respect and caring.’ If we hang everything on being caring it negates us doing anything that is damaging,” Dereck Joubert told us in our Find the Others interview, in answer to how […]