On Safari

The root of the word ‘safari‘ lies in the Swahili word for ‘journey’. But I believe - and experts would appear to agree - that it’s more than that: it’s as much a journey of the mind as an adventure set in the great African wilderness, where everyday worries become irrelevant, and where the unexpected always happens.

Botswana is such a place. A visitor on a Botswana safari holiday will soon realise why the Tswana word for rain - ‘Pula’ - is also the name of the national currency: this is a sun-baked, arid land where water is as precious as the diamonds upon which its wealth has been built. Read more