Maybe it was down to the Lion King. But it was the warthogs that really captured Molly’s heart. Yes, those ever-endearing little warthogs, with their tufty hair-dos, skittish capers and comical antennae-tail-up running… My seven-year-old, on her first ever safari, was...
Where is paradise, exactly? Turns out it’s about a two-hour flight from Johannesburg, plus a quick jaunt by helicopter or boat … The Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort, lazing 30km off the Mozambique coast, isn’t the absolute quickest beach idyll to reach, but it’s more...
Loisaba Conservancy, in Kenya’s Northern Laikipia, is a striking swathe of wilderness and a pioneer of sustainable community-integrated conservation. It’s already a world-class wildlife-watching destination – and is about to get even better. Perched on a breathtaking...
It’s official: The Royal Livingstone Hotel by Anantara is one of the finest retreats in Africa. This summer, this five-star hotel was named in the ‘Three Best Resorts in Africa’ category of Travel & Leisure’s latest World’s Best Awards, voted for by the magazine’s...
Unfortunately for her, it started with my feet. Stella has been a spa therapist at Tortilis Camp, in a conservancy bordering Amboseli National Park, for 11 years and we met when she gave me a much-needed foot massage (amazing for me, less so for her). But as her hands...
We’ve all seen the shots of the splashing, thrashing action – and dreamed of being right there, as two million wildebeest attempt life-and-death river crossings to move between the Masai Mara and Serengeti national parks. The ‘Great Migration’ is bucket-list stuff,...
