Fly-camping is a real safari highlight as Victoria discovered earlier this year.                                

David Bell, the most recent recruit to Aardvark’s Hampshire office had the chance to re-visit Zambia and sample a walking safari in the South Luangwa Valley earlier in the summer.

A walking safari in northern Kenya gives Alice Gully the chance to explore a remote patch of Kenya in glorious isolation.

Jim Gully, husband of Alice, climbed Mount Kenya during their recent Kenyan trip. Here’s his account of scaling this, the highest mountain in Kenya and second highest in Africa.

If your wish is to see East Africa in a totally private, intimate way, a mobile tented camp will give you a taste of the continent as it must have seemed to the original explorers. Alex Hunter operates private mobiles across Kenya, giving you the chance to drive through some of Africa’s densest game populations and walk in unspoiled regions.

I’d heard all sorts of things about Seychelles including the tag “5 star location but 3 star hotels and service”, so I was delighted to be able to go and investigate for myself with my husband Peter earlier this year.