When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you’re leaving a state of mind.  Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.”Francesca…

Let’s leave nothing for ‘later’ that’s important to us now. We’ve all just learned the hard way that we can’t take ‘later’ for granted. Because while waiting for later, we can lose the best moments, the best people, the best…

Africa changes you forever, like nowhere on earth. Once you have been there, you will never be the same. But how do you begin to describe its magic to someone who has never felt it? How can you explain the…

Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.Oliver Wendall Holmes Ah! the smells of Africa. The sights. The sounds. The warmth. The soul. We’re going back! How we have missed Zimbabwe! How…

The silence of the bush is profound…- First words in Tasimba video "It's Time" https://bit.ly/3xWpNgM The rustle of leaves fluttering in the breeze. The bubbling laughter of a meandering brook. The delightful rhythmic calls and responses of birds in the…

Especially adapted for our Tasimba readers from an anonymous post. Time does not wait. Barely the day starts and it's already six in the evening. Monday just arrived and already it’s Friday. Another month is already over and the year…

A good friend thanked me shortly before Christmas for a gift I didn’t even know I’d given him. We were in a Zoom meeting of a CEO peer group organization we both belong to, and were answering the question: What…

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein Learning from Nature is one of the core beliefs on which our whole Tasimba Experience is based. As all of our guests will tell you, their…

“Africa changes you forever, like nowhere on earth.  Once you have been there, you will never be the same.” - Brian Jackman It’s true!  Anyone who has spent any time at all in Africa will tell you, once Africa is…

If you were asked “What’s your totem?” you’d probably have no idea – unless you’d been on a Tasimba safari.  But if you asked that same question to a local Zimbabwean, they would proudly tell you what theirs is. Totems…

Four years ago, when we were starting Tasimba, we needed to find a name. We wanted it first of all to be authentically African and, second, relevant to the unique safari experience that we were planning. There was one other…

There are many unique aspects to the Tasimba safari that make it a life-changing experience for our guests.  There’s exclusive occupancy of our luxury camp. The Keystone Experts we bring in to inspire you. Teeming wildlife in a vast, private…

Salibonani (Hello) from Africa! We often tell our guests that as many times as we’ve been to Africa – each day is different. Sunday, we waved good-bye to our latest wonderful group of guests, the Jabulani Clan, having just shared…

I had a farm in Africa.” – Isak Dinesen a.k.a. Karen Blixen I, too, had a farm in Africa. Except they didn’t make a movie about it! My farm wasn’t in the Ngong Hills in Kenya but rather in the…

You have to see safari sunsets for yourself. The sun gives up its day in a spectacular blaze of fiery glory as if to say “I won’t let you forget me!”  And you won’t.  Long after your safari is over,…