What sets it apart
Our family safari was notable for the way each of the luxury lodges we stayed at managed to achieve a perfect balance between the wildlife experiences we’d enjoyed on previous safaris without our kids, and the need to satisfy the slightly different requirements of one teenager undergoing digital withdrawal and a 10-year old nature freak in thrall to it all.
We loved that there were so many activities offered to our kids, and that there was always a genuine attempt to engage and amuse young, curious minds.
Seemingly effortlessly, the recipe was perfected: the shared family adventures we all very much wanted, and those occasional moments when, like a lioness stashing her cubs in a secret den, we needed some grown-up time to reconnect with each other.
We quickly fell into the time-honoured rhythms of safari, from the cheerful early morning wake-ups to the inviolable rites of the safari sundowner. Equally, we had ample opportunities to appreciate that these weren’t the only sacred moments on our Tanzania family safari.
Encouraging our son to reach higher in a leaping contest with Maasai warriors, or dipping one of our daughter’s home-baked giraffe-shaped cookies in my early morning coffee as she watched expectantly to check that I loved it, are memories that will last forever. The only things which were forgotten in all of this were the smart devices both kids would normally have been glued to. This was my idea of ‘dumbing down’.
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