Travel Stories

Walking safaris take travelers beyond the vehicle and into Africa’s wild heart — where every track, sound, and scent tells a story. Explore how this slow, sensory form of safari began in Zambia and continues across Botswana and beyond. Featuring insights from Bushtracks Founder David Tett’s 2025 walking journey.

Meet Tristan Allan-Reynolds, a professional safari guide at Tanda Tula in South Africa’s Timbavati Reserve. Raised between city life in Durban and the wilds of KwaZulu-Natal, Tristan brings deep conservation knowledge and heartfelt storytelling to every safari. In this interview, he shares how guiding on foot shaped his approach, why connection matters as much as wildlife sightings, and how his podcast Heart of the Wild brings Africa’s bush to listeners around the world.

Guides sit between wilderness and traveler — storytellers who transform sightings into stories and connect landscapes to people. More than field experts, they are interpreters of the wild: weaving together ecology, culture, and history to reveal Africa’s layered beauty. In their hands, each safari becomes a living classroom.

Good morning from the Intercontinental Johannesburg! My name is Alex, and I am on Day 1 of my reconnaissance trip in Zimbabwe with my husband Liam. We got married August 24, 2024 and this is our (belated) honeymoon. Admittingly, this is an unconventional way to spend a honeymoon. But we both share great passion for Africa and were dying to go on safari, no matter the pace. I look forward to taking you along on this journey and hope to convey the absolute joy that Africa brings.

“How could you possibly take a child to Africa?” The long flights don’t exactly make it an appealing idea. But if you can get past the flight, the experience is quite literally life changing…

Every year, the Rowland family reunites at a beach house dubbed “Camp Rowland.” Years ago, with two grandchildren about to start college, they took “Camp Rowland” to Africa…

In June 2017 children’s book author Lori Stewart took her first trip to Africa on a Bushtracks safari spanning the Ngorongoro Crater, the Serengeti, and Uganda…

Tour leader Carol Guy recently returned from accompanying Bushtracks’ Congo Basin Discovery, exploring remote and pristine national parks in the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic…

I’m more than certain that getting two young children through a 15-and-a-half-hour flight to Africa is nothing short of a hellacious experience…

It is always exciting when one of our colleagues returns from Africa and to hear “Safari Stories from One of Our Own”…

Kasey Nooris, a longtime Bushtracks Expeditions employee, recently returned from her first safari and we’d love to share her experience…

David shares his insights and experiences from his Moroccan Montage trip…