Our first safari wasn’t a vacation; it was our childhood. We were born and raised in Uganda, a country Winston Churchill rightly called ‘the Pearl of Africa’. We grew up in an environment of incredible natural wealth, where the source of the Nile River was nearby and the Rwenzori Mountains stood on the horizon. Our home was a habitat for over 1,000 species of birds, and we learned to identify them by their calls long before we could read about them in a book.

This upbringing gave us a deep appreciation for the wild, a perspective that led us to careers as journalists and broadcasters. Our job was to tell Africa’s stories to the world, tracking the tree-climbing lions of Queen Elizabeth National Park and documenting the lives of mountain gorillas in Bwindi. But our curiosity didn’t stop at the border. The same passion that drove us to understand our home pushed us to explore further, to see how the story of the wild changed across the continent. We followed that curiosity south, into the vast, arid landscapes of Botswana and the dramatic coastlines of South Africa.

We learned that Africa speaks in different dialects. The language of the lush, dense forests of Uganda is different from the language of the dry, open Kalahari. We spent years learning to speak both. We created Lush Africa Safaris to share this deeper, pan-African connection. We wanted to design journeys that go beyond a checklist of animals, connecting you to the narrative of the landscape and the rhythm of the wild.

This story, this perspective, became the cornerstone of Lush Africa Safaris. It is the standard of authenticity and personal care that we maintain within our own team and expect from every partner we work with. We design every journey as if it were for our own family, because to us, it is. This is not just our business. It is our life’s work and our deepest passion.