For the next seven days we will be travelling on a mobile safari with our young guide, Josh, third generation of an American missionary family settled in Tanzania. Josh is in equal parts passionate conservationist, wise Bushman and summer camp counsellor.
We will spend a few days exploring the Tarangire National Park, which hosts Africa’s biggest concentration of elephants, and will then visit with the Hadzabe, East Africa’s last tribe of hunter-gatherers located in the remote Yaeda Valley.
This is a safari in the classic tradition of the Golden Age, minus the G&T, gun bearers and luxury. We carry everything we need with us for a week in two vehicles – water, fuel, food. We camp in simple tents, pitched right in the middle of the bush, take “bucket showers” and dine around the campfire, using headlamps to navigate around the camp at night. The camps we set up along the way are completely “porous” and every morning we find the trace of the animals who have wandered through during the night.
