Our great Kenyan adventure started with a rather uneventful flight from Heathrow to Nairobi. To be honest, this is exactly the start parents want with 2 children in tow. Meals that they enjoyed, movies on tap and the opportunity for ...

I’m off on a first for me – my first trip to Botswana and Zimbabwe.  Now I am travelling with Alison who as you all know has vast amounts of knowledge on all things African.  As such I am in ...

With the temperatures rising we started to head across the province and closer to the East coast. We were going to be basing ourselves for a few days at Ghost Mountain Inn to enable us to enjoy both the hotel ...

East Africa is not exactly world renowned for Golf, but there are a few gems that golfers may like to know about, listed within easy reach of a Serena property – the most notable of which is the Lake Victoria ...

When planning an educational, one of the challenges we usually face is transfer costs, so when I heard about the Madaraka Express in Kenya I was really excited. This new train, which currently operates between Nairobi and Mombasa, stops half-way, ...

   By Claire Roadley I have stayed in many game reserves, having grown up in South Africa – from staying in caravans and Parks Board style rondavels to the very best in 5 star luxury lodges. I even worked for ...

One of my favourite things to do is walking in the countryside with our Jack Russell, Molly.  Not just the daily walks around our village, but those that we do over the weekend, when we go a little further afield ...

An article in the inflight magazine spoke of the decline in the number of lions in Africa, a reduction of over 40% in the last 20 years alone.   In the 1940’s lion numbers were estimated at about 450,000 – todays ...

I was lucky enough to find myself heading up to Garonga in September.  It had been (far too many) years since my last visit – which was before the addition of sister camp, Little Garonga  – so I was very ...

It had been a few years since my last visit to Northern Tanzania, an area on many people’s bucket list, and an area with names that evoke all sorts of emotions. My memories of my first visit to Tanzania, about 20 years ago, are still with me – particularly the cheetah sighting in the tall grass of the Serengeti, when the cubs got told off by their Mum, because she lost the Tommy she had just caught for their dinner, as they were otherwise occupied with some rough and tumble.