About Reverie Safaris

After designing trips to more than seventy countries, I kept returning to Africa, and I kept noticing the same thing.

Most safari planners are exceptional at logistics. Permits secured, beautiful camps booked, charters coordinated. What's missing is the insight that separates a well-executed safari from one you talk about for decades.

I'd watch families spend $50,000 because someone told them to go to Botswana in January, only to discover the floodwaters they'd imagined don't reach the Okavango Delta until around June. Or chase the Migration without anyone asking whether the intimacy of the green season might move them more. Or book architectural luxury when canvas walls that let you hear lions at 3 AM were what they came for.

The gap wasn't effort. It was insight. That's what I built Reverie Safaris to provide.

I work with a small number of families and couples each year, from three generations sharing a private villa, each moving at their own rhythm, to a couple on their honeymoon. You work directly with me from the first conversation to your return home. On the ground, my local partner looks after you, and I stay on your WhatsApp thread throughout.

I start with questions most planners never ask. Not just where, but why. What you saw in a photograph that made you want this. Whether you're giving your parents a trip they'll talk about forever, or showing your kids something that rewires how they see the world. Then how you actually travel: whether your teenager needs adventure or your mother needs rest, whether you want to linger over breakfast while everyone else rushes to the 6 AM drive.

Only then do I design where and when, because on safari, timing isn't logistics. It's everything. You should show up at exactly the right time, in exactly the right place, for exactly the right reasons.