If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

The words of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “If”, have remained with me throughout life. They’re that shoebox of family photographs you dust off and flip through once in a while, to remind yourself of who you are, where you’ve been… The poem hung on the passage wall in my family […]

The Je ne sais quoi of Johannesburg

The question has often been asked. Do people make places? Forbes once addressed it in their blog, noting, “Some cities have been smoking hot for a while now; others are just recently catching fire. They share a lot of DNA, generally having universities, an investment-friendly culture […]

A Spa Owner’s Guide To Mindful Travel

Of all the trips I have taken in life, the best ones have been the ones that were the most exhausting. For instance, those four days hustling Landrovers through the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park in search of wild dogs, Kingsley Holgate at the helm. Driving from sun up to […]

The 5 Stages of Dining – A Food Safari at Morukuru Family

People often talk about the last meal they’ll have “before the plane goes down”, so to speak… if we could control fate, if we knew when said moment would strike, what would we choose as our last meal? Maybe you’ve never thought about it. Perhaps the people […]

You Never Forget An Elephant

Above: Zarafa Camp in Botswana  “You know, they say an elephant never forgets. But what they don’t tell you is that you never forget an elephant.” – Bill Murray in the film, Larger Than Life I remember the elephant’s ears, waving outward to make him […]