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serengeti

  • My top tips for taking kids on a family safari

    Tweet Safari is, I think, one of those must-do/wish list/bucket list type trips that every parent dreams of doing with their kids; what could be better than seeing their total amazement as they spot lions,…

    April 24, 2015
  • African skies… and trees

    Tweet Nothing can prepare you for the size of Africa; if you consider that Tanzania alone is the same size as the Netherlands, it sort of puts it on context. And what I hadn’t…

    April 23, 2015
  • Colours of Tanzania

    Tweet One of the things I loved discovering in Tanzania was how, when you’re not on safari (when you should stick to light-coloured clothes and avoid black or blue because it attracts the Tsetse flies, which…

    April 22, 2015
  • Lions of the Serengeti

    Tweet Everyone has an animal they want to see in the wild on their wish list; for me it was the big cats, and in particular the lions of the Serengeti. I wanted to…

    April 20, 2015
  • On safari in the Serengeti

    Tweet By the time we arrived in the Serengeti it was early afternoon; it had taken three planes to get there, including one from London to Nairobi, one from Nairobi to Kilimanjaro, and one…

    April 19, 2015
  • My big African adventure

    Tweet Ever since I first started travelling (and after I’d backpacked my way across the US) there have been two destinations on my wish list; one was Japan, which I finally visited for the…

    March 9, 2015