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Get your Fix – revel in Eliza’s latest creation. Join us on safari; relish the peaceful sensuality, savour the wilderness, Serengeti. Plug in and turn the volume up loud… “On Safari” with Alex Walker’s Serian…. Read More
Every photographer has a ‘bogey critter’ – the one they are always unlucky with. Mine has been the leopard – or chui in Swahili. I’ve near-missed them all over Africa, India and Sri Lanka more… Read More
One of the highlights of my latest stint as Photographer In Residence at Alex Walker’s safari camps in Kenya has been getting to know the drivers of our game drive vehicles better. These modest, unassuming… Read More
Karibu Sana! My name is Penny Robartes, and I am a professional Wildlife Photographer and Photo Tour Leader. I am currently writing this post from Serian Camp in the Mara North Conservancy, with a view… Read More
The ancestral ritual of communal fireplace and dining – the essence of sharing… we are social animals, and part of what makes things vivid and real to us is our capacity to share: the joy is dissecting your day, raking over the delicious details and unwrapping the delights over and again, over the fundamentally communal experience of breaking bread. It’s also part of absorbing and storing memories – the re-telling and re-living makes it more vivid, and sets the place of the experience in our minds. The evening is for digesting and processing the day.
"Dear Alex, we awoke this morning in a cocoon of a room floating on a cloud of bliss. Thank you for a sanctuary – exactly the tonic required!"Saba Douglas-Hamilton, BBC presenter, Big Cat Diary
"An oasis of calm in a fairy-tale setting. A fantastic recharge of batteries and a reminder of why Africa is so special"Tom & Faith Martin
"Africa! Miles and Miles of Bloody Africa! How wonderful to be here, surrounded by life rejuvenating itself perpetually. Hopefully we will be able to teach the world how delicate this balance is and preserve it for as long as possible.. Thank you for your wonderful hospitality. All our love"Ela, Serra, and Stefano.
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