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Whether you seek a luxurious wildlife adventure, a lightweight walking safari, a family holiday, or if you are a photographer with a mission, Ethan will help you to organize your journey.

Some sunsets ARE just better… On the last night of our safari, 324 bird and 58 mammal species in, we watched as the firs...
31/10/2026

Some sunsets ARE just better…

On the last night of our safari, 324 bird and 58 mammal species in, we watched as the first rains- always a big bluff, blew across the valley sending with it the scent of petrichor.

Here’s a question for fellow safari planners and guides out there; how many days do you need to stay in a camp to be abl...
28/10/2026

Here’s a question for fellow safari planners and guides out there; how many days do you need to stay in a camp to be able to have a slow morning and enjoy breakfast in camp?

We took a slow morning Ikuka Safari Camp and this is what we saw from breakfast:

Fork-tailed Drongo
Purple crested turacco
Yellow bellied greenbul
Red headed weaver
Black backed puffback
Ashy starling
Mosque swallow
Ring necked dove
Klaas cuckoo
Eastern nicator
Arrow marked babbler
Barred owlet
Violet backed sunbird
Cinnamon breasted buntung
Crowned hornbill
Yellow vented bulbul
Holub’s golden weaver
Slate colored boubou

A Ruaha queen high up on an arboreal throne.  Just because I’m into the birds, insects, and plants, doesn’t mean a leopa...
25/10/2026

A Ruaha queen high up on an arboreal throne.

Just because I’m into the birds, insects, and plants, doesn’t mean a leopard in a baobab tree doesn’t take my breath away. I’m fortunate to have guests who think the same as me, and so these sightings are like icing and not the cake.


Ikuka Safari Camp

What a privilege to see this specimen of a male Sable antelope in Usangu. Seeing Sable in Tanzania normally means gettin...
25/10/2026

What a privilege to see this specimen of a male Sable antelope in Usangu.

Seeing Sable in Tanzania normally means getting off the beaten path and venturing into Tsetse fly country. We found this relaxed male a few minutes after leaving Asilia’s Usangu camp, in amazing light.


Usangu Expedition Camp Ruaha National Park

That time of year in Ruaha when a color photograph naturally takes on a black and white sepia tone.Elephant herd against...
24/10/2026

That time of year in Ruaha when a color photograph naturally takes on a black and white sepia tone.

Elephant herd against a smokey sky.
Usangu, Oct 2026.


Usangu Expedition Camp Six Rivers Africa

23/10/2026

When you slow down the dance of the Drongo…

After three weeks on safari, the final breakfast in camp watching this…

Ikuka Safari Camp

When we began imagining a camp in Arusha National Park, one of the things that really excited us was the different realm...
29/09/2026

When we began imagining a camp in Arusha National Park, one of the things that really excited us was the different realm of diversity that we could bring to the traditional safari circuit in northern Tanzania; diversity of activities, diversity in landscapes and habitat, and biodiversity.

Last night, we found a very cool animal. A carnivore that diverged from the carnivore lineage that would become the cats, hyenas and viverids about 44 million years ago. To get a mega-lifer like this, so close to home is really, really special. What more will we find?

The Tree Civet, Nandinia binotata.

Photo credit: Hagai Zvulun together with Peter Abia Lema & John Laizer Entara Arusha National Park

What an incredible red! (Unedited)I picked this feather up on a walk in Arusha National Park. It belonged to a Hartlaub’...
31/08/2026

What an incredible red! (Unedited)

I picked this feather up on a walk in Arusha National Park. It belonged to a Hartlaub’s turacco, a bird even non-birders can appreciate. Interestingly, the red in this feather comes from a unique pigments produced only in this family of birds, not a carotenoid like the orange, pinks and reds in other birds.

Come walk these forests with us!

Entara

28/08/2026

Some people call them sightings, but for me it’s more than that. It’s magic. Magic in everything from the larks singing in the background, the light, to the trust the mother has that we will not harm her cubs… and the privilege of being alone and being able to be silent, immersed,… present.

Guiding and finding things like this comes with huge responsibility. How close to get, how close to let them get, how long to stay…

Entara

It’s been a long time since I posted something. Part of me is just cringing at the AI influenced content pervading these...
20/08/2026

It’s been a long time since I posted something. Part of me is just cringing at the AI influenced content pervading these platforms and trying to come to terms with what that means for me. Regardless… meanwhile… maybe whatever… life continues and there are things that are real. One of those things is the quality time that safari and escapades to the bush offers.

Here a simple photo taken by a 9yr old- the inner circle of Kinseys in Tanzania. The core. That which one will defend.

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