Our Approach
We're not a lodge, and we're not your ground operator. We're your personal safari expert—an independent advisor who listens first, then designs, coordinates, and handpicks the very best local partners to bring your journey to life.
We've spent years cultivating relationships with Africa's most respected camps, guides, and conservation partners. From finding the right country, season, and private conservancy to arranging VIP airport escorts, bush flights, and lantern-lit dinners under impossible stars—we make sure your journey feels effortless. The kind of trip where you simply be present while we work behind the scenes to make it extraordinary.
As Featured in National Geographic
“When clients ask ‘How many vehicles will we see?’ or ‘How exclusive is this area?’, those are impact questions in disguise.”
Why Where You Stay Matters
We believe where you stay—and who you travel with—shapes more than your experience. It shapes the future of Africa's wildlife, communities, and wild spaces. That's why we only partner with camps, lodges, and guides who protect what makes these places extraordinary: who support anti-poaching efforts, empower local communities, and ensure your safari doesn't just leave memories—it leaves meaningful contributions. True luxury isn't just about thread count and sundowners. It's about what your presence makes possible.

A Note from Our Founder
After designing trips to more than 70 countries, I kept returning to Africa—and 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 your family talks about for decades.
I'd watch families spend $50,000 because someone told them to go to Botswana in January—only to discover the water experiences they'd imagined didn't exist until 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 was 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 each year—typically multigenerational groups looking for private villas where three generations can move at their own rhythm without compromise. You work directly with me from the first conversation to your return home.
We 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 we 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.
— Hans Arnesen
Founder, Reverie Safaris
Let's Talk About Your Safari
Every journey begins with a conversation — over coffee in Orange County, or from wherever you are. Tell me what’s calling to you, and I’ll show you what’s possible.



