Stories, seasonal guidance and hard-won advice from Shayona journeys across Tanzania and Kenya.
The wildebeest don't keep a calendar. Here's how our guides track the herd's movement daily to place you at the perfect crossing.Every year, more than 1.5 million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebra move in a g...
Drifting silently above the plains at dawn is the safari's quietest thrill — and its most photographed.There is a particular silence to a hot-air balloon at sunrise over the Serengeti — broken only by the burner's occasi...
Marangu, Machame, Lemosho or the Northern Circuit? A plain-language guide to picking the climb that suits you.Kilimanjaro is the highest peak in Africa at 5,895 metres — and, remarkably, a walkable one. There are no rope...
Meeting East Africa's last hunter-gatherers is a lesson in a way of life largely unchanged for millennia.Near Lake Eyasi live the Hadzabe — one of the last true hunter-gatherer peoples on earth. They keep no livestock an...
Spice, Stone Town and the softest white sand — why we love finishing a journey on the Indian Ocean.After days of dust and dawn game drives, there is nothing quite like stepping off a small plane onto Zanzibar. The safari...
One of only a couple of places on earth where you'll find lions lounging in the branches. Here's why they do it.Lions are not natural climbers — they're heavy, and the descent is undignified. Yet at Lake Manyara, and a h...
