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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


Mike Dexter is a professional wildlife photographer and specialist photographic safari guide with over a decade of experience exploring and photographing the most wild and remote corners of Africa, each journey fuelling the fire for… Read More


It’s very tempting when we come on safari to focus entirely on the large, charismatic mammals – lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, rhino, giraffe, zebra…the list is dazzling. But a few hours spent wandering with a… Read More


As my month long stint here at Serian comes to an end, I would like to share with everyone one of my favourite techniques…..stitching. Many travellers these days like to travel with less camera equipment… 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.
"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.
"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
"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
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