On the 1st November 2023, 20 of us set off early from the office in Arusha in a few safari vehicles and made our way to our Itikoni Camp in Arusha National Park. Twenty of our Chefs, Assistant Chefs and Service staff were set to do 3 days chef and service training at our Itikoni Camp with one of…
This year’s annual guide training took place in Mkomazi National Park. Every year, excluding Covid time, our guides, Elia, our GM, and Wes, one of our Directors, try to go to a new location to do the guide training. Guide training is a mixture of reviewing our current practices, emergency protocols, sharing knowledge with each other, and learning from…
I wanted to take a moment after taking some time to reflect back on all the adventures we had in Africa. We did so much throughout the days, that it wasn’t until I returned back home to sit and reflect back on our adventurous days! ABOVE AND BEYOND anything we had ever done as a family, and so many…
That time of the year has rolled around again and it’s time for Sentinnel Outdoor Institute to come back to Tanzania and help train our guides, as well as many others, on Wilderness First Reponse. They offer a few different courses; from the full 10-day Wilderness First Response, Wilderness First Aid, Leave No Trace and Pediatric First Aid. These…
Socially aware organisation with beautiful rugs We buy all of our rugs for our tent bathrooms from a lovely organization called Widow’s Might. This project is based in Arusha, Tanzania and empowers a small group of women to learn skills that enable them to sell the handcrafted items they make to tourists and locals. With the support of the…
Natural and eco-friendly products Handmade in Arusha, Tanzania, Swahili Touch produces soaps, skin and hair care products. All of their products are natural, palm oil free, cruelty free and eco-friendly. We are lucky enough to have them around the corner from our main office we are able to refill our 20L vats with them whenever we need. We then…
The temperature can drop quite a lot at night in Ngorongoro, so much so that even after a hot and dusty day on safari in ‘the crater’ there is nothing quite like returning to a hot shower.However, being out in the bush, without electricity or piped natural gas, we have to rely on old fashioned stoves to provide heat…
Grace joined the African Environments family during COVID. She was part of an all female camp in the Serengeti beforehand, so she knows the bush like the back of her hand. Having been on a few trips for us so far and receiving amazing feedback. She is also a dab hand with a 4×4 car (don’t be fooled) as…
We had the pleasure of having Mathias, Daniel, Wilson and Elisha with us from Africa Amini Alama Secondary School of Sustainable Tourism. They came to do some work experience with us for 4 weeks. They spent a week in each department; food and beverages department with Lily and Mary, Operations department with Gabriel, and a week in the Workshop…
Poaching is sadly still a big issue in Tanzania, as well as many other countries in Africa. Serengeti’s De-Snaring Programme was started back in April 2017 which we helped found along with TANAPA (Tanzania Parks), Frankfurt Zoological Society and a few other conservation NGOs. This programme is set up to patrol the Serengeti National Park of poachers who are…
