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Enjoyed the newly opened Hinoki and the Bird in Century City. chili crab toast, beef tartar and baked yam.
“To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told — that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled…
Hard to describe this moment. I’ll try to in the next post. We were both a mess. So much harder to say good bye to Africa and our guide, Aloyce, who spent at least eight hours a day with us over the past eight days giving us an experience that has forever changed our lives.
The wildebeests have arrived in camp.
No, it isn’t our honeymoon, but everyone here at Singita continues to make us feel like we’re staring in Out of Africa. Never have experienced such service, warmth and flat out magic than here at the Sabora camp.
Sonia and I toured the local community that has gone from a poor village to a prosperous one with several schools and successful businesses because of the partnership with the Grumeti Reserve. We met with a local farmer who invited us to his home and showed us around his poultry farm. He and his sons seemed genuinely happy to have us and gave us…
Poolside at Singita Sabora Tented Camp, Tanzania.
Best wifi hotspot ever. Back from the spa. Lunch. Siesta. Happy hour at the balloon basket bar.
It took five days and nights of tracking, but we finally found the elusive leopard. This sighting completes the big five. I’m in a constant state of awe.
Safari time.
Breakfast, then the drive to the Sabora Tented Camp on the Serengeti Plains for our final three nights. Spot the giraffes.
It’s been rated the number one hotel in the world by several top publications over the last five years. Easy to see why with the turn down service alone. It was first class service and luxury, but we’re excited to get back down on the plains.
This is not getting old.
If we’re not on a game drive, we’re eating.
Dinner under the gazebo at Sasakwa
One Male, Two lionesses and four cubs each.
Gratuitous pool shots. Sasakwa Lodge is a masterpiece.
It came two weeks early, but we feel we’re lucky that way. We were within a mile when we began to hear them, like frogs in the night. It’s one of the seven natural wonders in the world. This first wave numbered 30,000. When all is done, two million will bulldoze their way through the plains. Nature’s lawnmower.
Coffee to start. The set up is always elaborate. An elephant walks across the plain before sunrise. Never a bad sunset. Heading across the German Bridge, built by the Germans during World War I. Another Bull Elephant.
Pictures don’t do this place justice. Perched on a hill overlooking the Serengeti plains, Sasakwa has no equal. Our villa.
No matter how high our expectations, they could have never been exceeded. It only took two and a half days to fall in love with camp, the food, the location, and most of all, the staff. Sonia is not to cry very easily, but the tears were flowing as we pulled away.
Our Yearly Playlist 