We are not big-trip people. Before this, the furthest we had gone was a week in Vancouver, so booking eleven days in Tanzania felt out of character for both of us. What settled it was a phone call. We had emailed three companies and two sent…
Dana and Marcus Whitfield
Travelled Feb 2025
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Nine of us travelled: my parents, my brother and his wife, us, and three children between six and fourteen. My mother is eighty-one and does not do heat. My nephew does not do sitting still. I genuinely did not know whether this would work.
The Okonkwo family
Travelled Jul 2025
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This was our third safari and our first in Tanzania. We had done Kenya twice, in 2016 and 2019, and we came in fairly confident that we knew what we were doing. The north of the Serengeti is a different animal.
Priya and Sam Raghavan
Travelled Sep 2025
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I travelled alone, which I was nervous about, and I went in April, which everyone told me was the wrong month.
Ellen Barzak
Travelled Apr 2025
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We are in our sixties and this was the trip we had been putting off since our children left home.
Tom and Rosalind Achterberg
Travelled Jan 2025
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Two adults, two children, aged nine and twelve, and a lot of anxiety on my part about whether ten days in a vehicle would end in mutiny.
The Delacroix-Nguyen family
Travelled Aug 2025
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We put this off for forty years, for reasons that all seem fairly thin now: money, then children, then work, then a run of years where it simply never came up.
Hal and Junie Pomeroy
Travelled Jun 2025
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I am a birder first and a general wildlife tourist a distant second, and I have been on trips where that made me the difficult passenger. Not this one.
Carla Mendes
Travelled Oct 2025
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We got married in February and left for Tanzania four weeks later, which everyone said was too soon after a wedding and which was exactly right.
Greg and Steph Lindqvist
Travelled Mar 2025
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We first went in 2023, just the two of us. This time we went back with six friends who had heard us talk about it for two years and did not entirely believe us.
The Ferreira party
Travelled Nov 2025
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