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Catherine Ronan

Africa Specialist & Co-Owner

Catherine is one of the most widely travelled people you’re likely to meet and has an enduring love for Africa where she knows – and is known by – everyone. She has a particular affinity for the people and landscapes of the harsh desert regions, from the Samburu in Northern Kenya to the Bushmen of Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Pans.

Most recently, Catherine has relished the time she spent with the tribes of Ethiopia’s Omo Valley where she ventured way off the beaten track with a mobile camp. For Catherine travel is a heady mix of excitement and adventure. She brings with her an ebullient sense of fun mixed with a meticulous eye for detail.

 

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Rod Tether

Africa Specialist & Co-Owner

Expert guide, born and raised in wild Africa.
Born in Uganda and guiding since the age of 17, his spiritual home remains Zambia’s North Luangwa where he and his wife Guz created and ran the fabulous Kutandala Camp for more than a decade before their children necessitated a move to “civilisation”. Here the emphasis was firmly on walking and slow immersion in the wild; a philosophy that remains central to Rod’s approach today.
Since Luangwa, he’s been travelling to far-flung wild parts of Africa, always seeking out new adventures and destinations. In recent years Rod has been exploring across Africa, from Chad to Madagascar via Congo-Brazaville and the DRC. Rod’s a passionate all-round naturalist and now uses his unsurpassed knowledge and huge network of contacts to create the perfect safari.

 

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Vanessa Janion

Africa and South America specialist & Co-Owner

A strong artistic flair is probably the reason Vanessa has such an affinity for Morocco.Her sense of style is evident in the artefacts she emerges with from her forays into the souks of Marrakech or the Poterie De Fes where mosaic craftsmen still create zellij mosaics in a centuries-old tradition. In the past 20 years she’s lived in Egypt, India and Kenya (where she once narrowly avoided landing her entire family in prison for overtaking the presidential motorcade). She has explored from the streets of Asmara, locked in a time warp from 1930s Italy, to the remote wilderness of Svalbard in the High Arctic.

Vanessa’s extensive travel experience and expertise spans from Latin America to Africa and she frequently travels with her own family. She enjoys nothing more than the chance to experience wilderness and nature through the eyes of her children.

 

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Sara Willis

Antarctica and Latin America Expert

Her childhood being rather tame on the travel front, at 18 Sara was thrown in at the deep end when a zoology degree transported her from the relative comfort of Oxford to a fishing village on a remote Madagascan island. Here she spent 3 months not finding the turtles she was looking for but having her eyes opened to the joys that the wider world had to offer. A stint studying less elusive coral reefs off Tanzania and 18 months back-packing around Asia sent her tumbling into a job in travel, and she has never looked back.
Although still very passionate about Asia and Africa, a rather reckless friend suggested a trip to Colombia in the early 90s. Despite finding it distinctly more edgy then than it is now, Sara’s head was turned by the delightful people, the lush jungles and the magnificent Andes. She has continued to explore Latin America ever since, her personal highlights being the Galapagos Islands, the salt flats of Bolivia, the Brazilian Pantanal and southern Patagonia. She finally fell off the end of the continent and found herself heading for Antarctica, a spell binding place to which she has recently returned and loves to chat to clients about.More recently she has enjoyed showing the world to her family – an excuse for a fourth trip to the Galapagos, hiking in the remoter parts of Chile and a very memorable 3-month sabbatical to Brazil, Easter Island, French Polynesia, Australia and Borneo.

 

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Jemma Loveridge

Riding Safari Specialist

Having ridden all her life in a variety of countries, Jemma is always seeking the ultimate horseback adventure.Riding in Africa in the mesmerising landscapes of the Masai Mara with the Big Five or witnessing the wildebeest migration in the Serengeti Plains or journeying through the Namib desert are exceptionally incredible safaris.

Jemma frequently travels with her husband and three children. They all ride and have experienced some magical moments as a family on horseback. It is a truly unique experience. Jemma hopes that her next riding safari adventure will be with her family in Botswana experiencing Okavango’s wildlife and beauty.

 

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Gillian Aram

Asia Specialist

An incurable traveller, Gill set off to Australia with a pack on her back while still in her teens. Working to fund her exploration of the Far East and South East Asia, Gill turned her hand to varied roles from cocktail waitress in a Japanese casino to running backpacker hostels.Returning to London in her twenties, Gill joined the more formal world of travel through public relations before joining one of the capital’s top safari specialists – where she rose through the ranks to become a director. Motherhood clipped her wings somewhat, but as the shackles of childcare loosen, she is travelling far and wide once more.
Gill likes to specialize in the obscure and unheralded – in her mind there’s no trip too tricky, in fact she sees it as challenge to be conquered.

 

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“Natural High shines rays of adventurous light into some of the least explored, most exciting corners of the wider world.”
“The less-is-more formula natural high advocates makes complete sense. luxury lies in exposing the sensory, instinctive self to the scents and sounds of the wild.”
“We walked through dusty ochre foothills, following a thin stream lined with wild pink oleanders and fragrant thyme.”
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