01 · Stories
Not destination marketing. The questions that actually decide whether a trip works, answered at length.
Most safari blogs exist for search engines. These exist because the same questions come up in almost every planning conversation and they deserve more than a paragraph in an email.
02 · Planning
Deciding the shape of the trip
Planning
How many days do you really need?
Why a six-day circuit is mostly driving.
Planning
Private safari or joining group?
What the premium actually buys, and when it does not.
Planning
North or south?
Two different countries wearing one flag.
Planning
Lodge, tented camp or mobile camp
The decision that moves the price most.
Planning
What a day on safari looks like
Hour by hour, including the boring parts.
Family
Children on safari, age by age
Six, eleven and sixteen are three different trips.
03 · The migration
Timing the herds
Migration
When the migration actually crosses
Why no date can be promised, and what improves the odds.
Migration
Calving season, month by month
What happens on the southern plains, and when.
Seasons
Green season light
Why photographers prefer the months everyone avoids.
On safari
First light in the Serengeti
What the first hour is for.
Wildlife
The elephants of Tarangire
Why the dry season concentrates them so absolutely.
04 · Mountain, craft and money
The rest of it
Kilimanjaro
Altitude on Kilimanjaro, honestly
Why fit young men fail more often than they should.
Kilimanjaro
Machame or Lemosho
Two routes, and the days that decide it.
Kilimanjaro
What a porter carries
The weight limits, the pay, and the cheap climb.
Craft
Photographing from a vehicle
Bean bags, angles and why the roof hatch fails you.
Craft
A night drive, and what changes
A different cast entirely, and where it is allowed.
Money
Tipping in Tanzania
Who, how much, in what currency, and when.
05 · Ethics and money
