Trip Reports

Many people ask us why we don’t sell South America or the Far East. The simple answer is that we don’t know enough about them. A key aspect to our job is to experience our product in detail, and all our specialist staff travel at least 3 or 4 times a year to evaluate the destinations, properties and safari options which will make up your holiday. Not only does this keep us up to date, but it also allows us to understand the practicalities of travelling around each region, a key aspect of making your holiday a real success.

To read more about our travels, please click on the links below:

• Rob visits Zimbabwe – November 2019
• Mary Returns to Madagascar – October 2019
• Joe returns to Zimbabwe – June 2019
• Frances returns to northern Tanzania – June 2019
• Julia and Mary explore Namibia’s Damaraland, Etosha and Kaokoland – May/June 2019
• Mary returns to Namibia – May/June 2019
• Michele visits South Africa – May 2019
• Joe self-drives to Waterberg, Mashatu, Pafuri and Timbavati – April 2019
• Rob explores new properties in the private reserves bordering Kruger National Park, April 2019
• Frances visits Kenya and Tanzania – March 2019
• Julia returns to the Masai Mara, Kenya – March 2019
• Michele fly-camps in Tanzania – March 2019
• Frances travels to Namibia – November 2018
• Michele returns to explore Namibia – November 2018
• Rob explores new areas of the Okavango Delta – November, 2018
• Joe ventures to southern Tanzania – October 2018
• Mary visits Zimbabwe and Zambia – October 2018
• Julia explores Tarangire and the northern Serengeti – October 2018
• Michele travels through northern Tanzania – July 2018
• Julia travels to Zambia – June 2018
• Joe travels to Victoria Falls and Botswana – June 2018
• Mary into the land of the Kalahari – June 2018
• Frances explores northern Kruger and Mashatu – May 2018
• Joe explores the southern Cape – April 2018
• Julia visits South Africa’s Garden Route and Eastern Cape Game Reserves – April/May 2018
• Rob’s family adventure to Kenya and Seychelles – April 2018
• Michele travels back to Uganda – March, 2018
• Frances travels to Mauritius – March, 2018
• Mary travels back to northern Tanzania – February 2018
• Joe explores Spice Island Zanzibar and northern Tanzania – December 2017
• Michele returns to KwaZulu Natal – November 2017
• Rob self-drives through northern Namibia – November, 2017
• Fran explores KwaZulu Natal – November 2017
• Julia travels to the Selous, Ruaha and Zanzibar – October 2017
• Mary goes ‘remote’ in Western Tanzania – October 2017
• Michele travels back to southern Tanzania – July, 2017
• Frances discovers the safari havens of Zambia – June 2017
• Joe returns to explore Kenya – June 2017
• Mary visits the tropical islands in the Seychelles – May 2017
• Joe explores South African highlights – April 2017
• Julia visits the Fairest Cape – April 2017
• Mary explores Rwanda – March 2017
• Frances treks for gorillas – March 2017
• Julia covers northern Tanzania – March 2017
• Rob explores Northern Tanzania – March 2017
• Joe and Michele travel to Kenya – February 2017
• Julia travels around Kenya – December 2016
• Frances covers the safari areas and beaches of Kenya – December 2016
• Rob explores the remote Liuwa Plains in Zambia – November, 2016
• Julia visits the private game reserves of northern South Africa – October, 2016
• Mary is introduced to Zimbabwe – October, 2016
• Michele opts for an African holiday – September, 2016
• Mary explores the Mozambique coast – July 2016
• Julia travels to Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana – May 2016
• Mary explores the Western Cape – May 2016
• Frances travels to Botswana – May, 2016
• Frances visits South Africa’s Kruger and the Victoria Falls – April, 2016
• Rob takes his family on safari in South Africa for the first time – April, 2016
• Michele explores Tanzania’s islands including Zanzibar – March, 2016
• Rob returns to the Chyulu Hills, Amboseli, Laikipia and Masai Mara in Kenya – March, 2016
• Rob travels through the Kgalagadi and Namib deserts – November 2015
• Michele travels to Malawi – November, 2015
• Michele returns to Zimbabwe – September, 2015
• Fran travels through the Cape and Madikwe – December 2015
• Mary travels through northern South Africa and into Mashatu – October, 2015
• Rob visits Victoria Falls, Zambezi and Hwange national parks – June, 2015
• Rob into the wilderness of Botswana – April 2015
• Michele returns to northern Tanzania – March, 2015
• Mary back in the Mara – March, 2015
• Fran explores the Laikipia in Kenya – March, 2015
• Fran travels through Zanzibar and northern Tanzania – November 2014
• Mary on Mafia – December, 2014
• Rob explores little known Fanjove Private Island, Tanzania – November 2014
• Michele enjoys Botswana wilderness – November, 2014
• Mary reveals Ruaha – November 2014
• Rob goes en famille to Mauritius – October, 2104
• Fran discovers the vast Selous – October, 2014
• Bill visits remote Zambia – September 2014
• Fran on safari in South Africa – September, 2014
• Rob compares the Serengeti to the Masai Mara – June, 2014
• Fran enters the realm of ‘safari’ – June, 2014
• Mary engrossed with the birds of Kenya – March 2014
• Jane on an escorted self drive in northern South Africa – April, 2014
• Michele visits Rwanda, land of a thousand hills – March, 2014
• Rob catches up with the migration herds in the southern Serengeti – March, 2014
• Oliver finds new love in Kenya – March, 2014
• Oliver explores Zambia and Botswana – December, 2013
• Michele in Mauritius – December 2013
• Rob travels to Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools and Matusadona – October/November 2013
• Mary into the northern Serengeti – October, 2013
• Oliver sharing teapot tears in Tanzania – October, 2013
• Jane saddling up in the Mara – September, 2013
• Oliver starts his African career – September, 2013
• Mary travels to Madagascar – June 2013
• Rob steps out in Zambia’s South Luangwa – June 2013
• Bill visits Zimbabwe after more than a decade – May 2013
• Mary discovers some Hidden Gems of KwaZulu Natal – March, 2013
• M&M’s, Michele into the Mara – late February/March 2013
• Rob visits Tanzania’s Selous and Ruaha in the Green Season – February 2013
• Michele visits the Fairest Cape – December, 2012
• Rob travels back to Uganda – late November 2012
• Mary and the unexpected pleasures of Zambia – October 2012
• Bill goes back in time in Zambia – June 2012
• Rob tours southern Malawi and visits new parks – June 2012
• Michele experiences Botswana in May – May 2012
• Rob meets the lemurs of Madagascar – April, 2012
• Mary on malaria-free in South Africa – April 2012
• Michele exploring Kenya’s Meru, Laikipia, Rift Valley and coast – March 2012
• Bill heads to Kenya’s Masai Mara with family and friends – February 2012
• Michele travels through the wilderness of Namibia – December 2011
• Rob explores the remote Pafuri region of the Kruger National Park – December 2011
• Mary visits Spice Island Zanzibar – November 2011
• New sounds, stormy skies. Jane in Botswana in the Emerald season – November 2011
• Mary takes in the primates of Uganda and Rwanda – October 2011
• Jonny in the northern Serengeti, October 2011
• Rob on the trail of Wild Dog in Botswana’s Linyanti and Okavango regions – September 2011
• Mary gets up close and personal with the meerkats of Makgadikgadi, Botswana – May 2011
• Michele’s trip to Southern Mozambique – April 2011
• Bill ventures into Rwanda – March 2011
• Mary in the Mara – March, 2011
• Rob explores northern Kenya on foot – March 2011
• Rob visits the Mathews Range in northern Kenya – March 2011
• Jane experiences one of Kenya’s top riding safaris in Amboseli – January 2011
• Jonny explores the safari reserves of the Eastern Cape (South Africa) – December 2010
• Michele looks in depth at the Sabi Sands (bordering Kruger), South Africa – December, 2010
• Jonny visits childhood haunts on the south Kenya coast – November 2010
• Four into One goes easily for Jane in the Victoria Falls region – October 2010