Think Safari Means Only Africa? Think Again
Funny as I write this from the Masai Mara in Kenya whilst on a classical African safari
Let’s Go Beyond Africa To Real Safaris That Still Exist
I’m at the Ritz-Carlton Masai Mara as I write this, which has me reflecting on all the other places I’ve been on safari. And I don’t mean the drive-thru version (which I have in fact never done). I mean real safari. Wilderness safari. Where animals set the rules and humans show up when they allow.
Safari almost always equals Africa. Lions on the Serengeti, elephants moving in slow waves across the plains, endless golden light that feels like someone staged it. But wildness exists elsewhere. There are corners of the world where predators and herds run on their own terms, where humans are secondary, mostly tolerated. Imagine telling the current power grabbers this little nugget.
I’ve been to these places.
Each has its own logic, its own story shaped by landscape, history and species that existed long before we arrived. And each one left me slightly off balance, slightly in awe.
India — Tigers in the Shadows
