Exclusive access is precious anywhere. At kiba point, your own safari guides, boat and 4x4s give you this on a daily basis.
Though we avoid the tyranny of repeated game drives, often a bit of four-wheel driving is what’s needed to get you to the more offbeat wildlife El Dorados of this vast wilderness. With a dusty track ahead of you, open-sided safari cars, and no prescribed schedule, we get that proper Nomad feeling.
The best way to focus on the details of bush life, is to walk. We can bird-watch, stalk insects, find medicinal plants. It helps that our guides are walking encyclopaedias. It’s not just the little things though, we can even stalk elephant this way - working through the bush, suddenly emerging at secluded waterholes.
From a closed safari vehicle, the bush can seem far away, unapproachable. But when you get out into it - as we do - you can have ecstatic days in nature. Head out with the gang to the natural hot springs, or for fishing in the swirling Rufiji, or a picnic in our treetop hide, as the wild animal world and his wife pass by.
If you slow down to Nature’s pace, you get a truer sense of the wild. We love drifting on a river boat, the waters swirling brown beneath us. Beast and fowl are never far away of course, hippopotamus dip and crocodiles do slide from the banks like the movies, white chested fish eagles watch you go by.
This is all about experience. A safari spent in the game rich plains of Ruaha, and the endless wilderness of Nyerere, the south is hard to beat.