Know Before You Go: Tanzania Safaris

It's not about seeing something, it's about looking for things that has always been fun. And soaking in while you look for things that get stuck into your memory. Like a frame, and there is a certain light of a certain place at a certain hour that you will remember for life. And that's what made me love nature so much at a young stage. This trip is about the circle of life. It's about predators and prey. It's about discovering a world that was the same hundreds of years ago. Discovering a place that has a lot of hidden treasures, a lot of corners that you never saw on documentaries or TV shows. You feel that you are alone on Earth, and around you there is thousands of animals. You don't think. You soak. You bask in that wilderness because it's different from whatever you ever felt. It feels home, feels natural. If you come in a safari to be in nature, you are doing the wrong thing. You come in a safari to be nature because you are nature. You don't have to detach yourself from nature. I think one of the most moving things for me has always been seeing the quantity of animals. Seeing a leopard is beautiful, but seeing wildebeests and elans and toppies and gazelles as far as your eye can see is moving. It's something that makes you feel emotional more than anything else. One of the good things in life is when you can talk about the experience you had with someone that was with you. Because if someone was not here, they never understand. They all see this aspect which are not there. What is there is a touching feeling of understanding, of mutual understanding and a touching feeling of intimacy with elephants, with animals, with nature in general that you cannot explain. I like to share. I like to have someone to share with. The enthusiasm of other people is contagious, and it's fun. For me, the best reward is that sparkle. Having people I share nature with, that get back to when they were kids, you know, with that emotion, that wonder, you know, the big smile of a kid that quirks at something, looks at something and goes like that. That face is what you want. Just yesterday when we were in Usiyara Marsh, perfect light behind us, shining on these twenty, twenty five elephants walking towards us was magic. Everything was golden. And they came and they looked at us and they skimmed the car and they went the whole way with complete acceptance. And you look back and that sparkle is there in the eyes of your guest. The kid inside your guest is out again. And you can see. You can see the the wonder. You can see the surprise. You can see the the big wow effect there where they go like, wow. And it's a silent wow. You know? It's an inner wow. And that's, for me is a magic moment.