Sharing our stories
Every journey is an adventure in its own right, filled with vibrant colour, thrilling encounters and wonderful experiences. Every destination across East Africa is filled with tales begging to be told, brimming with fascinating information and insight. Here's where we curate the things that make Anderson & Harvey safaris so special, distilling them into engaging stories worthy of sharing with your clients. Enjoy!
For most of the year, the northern Serengeti lives in the shadow of its own reputation. Between July and October it hosts one of the most famous natural events on earth in the form of the Great Wildebeest Migration.
A honeymoon is the one trip in a couple's life that carries the weight of expectation long before the bags are packed, which makes it one of the most rewarding briefs a travel professional can take on.
Families who've done a multigenerational safari once tend to do it again. That says a great deal, because these are usually well-travelled people with high expectations and a group dynamic that takes some managing.
By the time October arrives on the Tanzanian plains, the dry season has done its work thoroughly. The waterholes are cracked mud, the grass is pale and exhausted, dust hangs in the air long after a vehicle has passed and the thorn trees look as though they've been holding their breath for months.
Tanzania's northern circuit is one of the most celebrated safari destinations on earth, and with very good reason. Within a relatively compact geographic area it contains some of the greatest wildlife spectacles, most dramatic landscapes and most extraordinary natural history that Africa has to offer.
A safari is only as good as the sum of its parts, and the parts that matter most are the ones that guests experience directly. The camp where they sleep, the food they eat, the guide who takes them out at dawn, the light aircraft that lifts them over the Serengeti and sets them down in the middle of it.
Safaris in Tanzania are usually booked for the incredible wildlife and spectacular landscapes and all that goes with them. Food is, at best, an afterthought in the planning conversation, and this is entirely understandable.
East Africa has been quietly accumulating one of the planet's most extraordinary concentrations of birdlife for millennia, and the numbers alone are enough to stop a serious birder in their tracks. More than 1,400 species across the region.
Slowing down is the best decision your clients will never know you made for them. Why? Because there's a particular kind of exhaustion that safari veterans recognise immediately and first-time travellers rarely anticipate.
Ask any seasoned safari traveller which moment they remember most vividly, and the answer is rarely what you'd expect. It's almost never the biggest sighting or the most dramatic crossing. More often it's something quieter, more personal and altogether less predictable than anything an itinerary could guarantee.
