Safaris and Wilderness Travel
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One of our favourite safari experiences - a great guide, a private vehicle, access to the best wildlife areas and a wonderfully comfortable camp all to yourselves. This style of camp is a clear endorsement of the notion that the simplest solutions can be often the best. Spacious, but lightweight tents allow for comfort, mobility and minimal impact (no noisy generators or other guests), proper mattresses with sheets and duvets ensure a good night’s sleep. And great food means you’ll go home fatter than when you arrived (sorry, but there’s no point in lying).
This camp can be used to access some of the best, and often underused, parts of northern Tanzania that most people overlook. We can also design itineraries to take in wilderness areas where you can walk; letting you get out of the vehilce is one of the objectives of using a camp like this. Combining with the odd small lodge makes for an outstanding expedition safari through the best of Northern Tanzania. This type of camp is ideal if you're the sort of person who subscribes to the comfort not luxury approach, although we would argue that the luxury in this case is in the experience. Very simply what you get here is the chance to be away from large crowds of other people at a price that would normally only allow for a lodge based safari with its attendant traffic and queues for the buffet - or a public camp site surrounded by hordes of others. As you can probably tell, we think this is a pretty good way to do things.
The far north of the Serengeti National Park is where you'll find the wildebeest migration between August and October. The Mara River - bristling with crocs - divides this wild part of the Serengeti from the Masai Mara in Kenya and it's here that you'll find the herds when the southern plains get too dry. Read more?
We can’t get enough of this place – it’s at its best when most people don’t even think of travelling to Tanzania, so it’s somewhere you stand a chance of sharing only with the nomadic Maasai to whom this area is home and the migrating wildebeest and other game that floods in once the rains come. The Gol Mountains lie in the northern end of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, close to the border with the Serengeti National Park (just to the west) and Loliondo, (just to the North). Read more?
Vanessa's 16 years in travel has seen her knowledge develop from sub-Saharan Africa into North Africa, Central and Southern America and the Galapagos. Consequently, she’s a veritable encyclopaedia of travel information and exceptionally cool, calm and collected in the face of the greatest planning demands.
