When it comes to taking children on safari or booking families on safari everyone is looking for the holy grail. Well, I think I’ve found it at Kambaku Safari Lodge.
Who best to create a lodge ideally suited for families than parents raising their children in the bush. They will have “been there, done that” and know exactly how to structure a day to ensure that the children are happy; because if the children are happy the parents are happy!
So why does Kambaku Safari lodge work so well? Let’s start with the layout of the camp. This is a fenced camp so parents can relax in the knowledge that the children are safe. It is compact and styled in a horseshoe shape with the swimming pool and expansive lawn at its heart. This all faces out over a waterhole giving you great views as well as a large area to run around in – or even kick a football around, whilst all the while immersed in the bush.
This lodge has predominantly inter-connecting rooms plus a family room. The family room is ideal if you have younger children as you share one bathroom. The inter-connecting rooms ideal if you want more space and you want the additional bathroom as they have two. As we now travel with a 16 year old daughter, trust me when I say a second bathroom is not a nice to have but a must have for harmonious travelling!
The lodge main area has been incredibly well designed with families in mind. The bar and lounge are well equipped with a toy box for younger children and then moving onto board games for slightly older children. For teens and young or young at heart adults there is a mezzanine level with a pool table which is a great hangout space. This is also where they can connect with their friends back home via social media channels as Wi-Fi is available in the main lodge building.
Outside there is an incredibly well thought out safari trail with a variety of educational boards allowing children of all ages to really learn more about their wildlife environment. This is an interactive space where you can make plaster casts of footprints or visit the bone yard and handle animal skulls and bones collected from around the reserve. You might come and look at one of the boards and nothing more or do the entire trail. The rangers are there to interact and educate without you realising that you are being educated as it is made fun, interesting, and exciting.
The safari dining is kept flexible. Communal dining is the norm in the traditional safari style, however this will not work for everyone. You may have a family who want their children to eat as soon as they come back from the afternoon drive. No problem. A table is set up in the lounge and if the children want to nap afterwards, then they just crash out on that same sofa after dinner. If parents have specific dietary requirements and want access to the kitchen to fulfil this themselves, then again, no problem.
Flexibility is the key word here. All families are different and parents have differing requirements. The team at Kambaku Safari Lodge excel at ensuring that the needs of each family are met and that they leave with shared memories that they will cherish forever.