Francis is one of our newest members of the African Environments team, and boy are we glad he’s with us! Francis was born in a small town on the edge of the Serengeti, so who better than to be guided by someone who knows the area so well! When Francis was at school, his dream was to be a…
We are very honoured to receive the award for ‘Best Tour Operator for Wildlife Filming’ from @tanzaniaparks Elia, our general manager, received the award on Tuesday evening at what was an incredible event at the TANAPA headquarters here in Arusha. Asanteni Sana to @tanzaniaparks and for everyone at African Environments and our stakeholders for making this possible.
OK, so I’m not even going to mention the massive thing that has affected us all over the last couple of years… But what I am going to talk about is what we have been up to during this time and what the situation is in Tanzania right now and where we are at this stage. It’s been such…
Another chance to head off to the bush! …and this time a real treat, two of my daughters were coming with me! It took us about 3 hours to reach the Natron area – most of it on tracks through the bush so we had our eyes peeled for wildlife, and we weren’t disappointed! Managing to spot a few…
When you live in the shadow of Mt Meru (4,565m or ~15,000ft), one of the most beautiful free-standing volcanoes in Africa, it’s hard to resist the urge to spend another weekend at our African Environments Itikoni Luxury Camp, nestled right at the base. We set off in our open safari car on a drizzly Saturday morning, wrapped up warm…
Predawn starts always seem to herald a great day on safari, so we decided to leave early ….weaving our way along small tracks through the palms and scrub of the coastal plains heading to Saadani National Park. Created relatively recently in 2005 from a former game reserve, it would be the first time we have visited the park –…
With the sudden onset of Covid hitting Tanzania and tourism a mighty blow we make the decision to keep our Serengeti and Arusha Luxury Camps in place with a skeleton staff …of two! …in each to look after them. A couple of months (and several skeleton staff changes!) later we felt we should take a trip out there to…
