Several generations
Grandparents, parents and children, all actually enjoying it.
The hard part is pace: what a nine-year-old wants from a morning and what a seventy-year-old wants are rarely the same. Private vehicles and camps with space to separate solve most of it.
How we plan it
What makes or breaks this kind of trip.
- 01
Build the day around the slowest
Not the youngest and not the oldest — whoever tires first. If the day works for them it works for everyone, and nobody has to say so out loud.
- 02
Rooms reached on the flat
Some of the loveliest camps put their best tents up a steep flight of steps. We will tell you which, because it is the sort of thing nobody thinks to ask.
- 03
Fly, and keep the flights short
A long road transfer is hard on grandparents and worse on toddlers. Light aircraft is the single best thing you can spend money on here.
- 04
A shared space at camp
A family tent or a small camp taken whole, so the party can be together without being confined to a table at dinner.
Safaris we would suggest
Every safari is shaped around the people travelling. These are the ones we start from.
