Everything You Need to Know About Solo Safaris
Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler
Condé Nast Traveler
4.4 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
When talking about solo travel, most people don't immediately think of a solo safari. But in talking to some of our coworkers about their own experiences, we wondered: Are safaris kind of the perfect trip to take alone? Consider this: Your days are scheduled out with game drives in the morning and evening, and time to relax, read, and chat with your campmates during the hottest part of the day. You're in a group, whether you're gorilla-trekking in Rwanda watching for elephants in the Serengeti, so you can choose when to be social—and when to hang out in your villa's plunge pool alone.
But the trip takes a lot of planning, so we called in our team of experts, who've all taken solo safaris, including Traveler's features director Alex Postman, travel specialist and founder of Roar Africa Deborah Calmeyer, and contributor Mary Holland.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler. |
| 0:08.0 | My name is Meredith Carey, and with me, as always, is my co-host. |
| 0:12.0 | Hi. |
| 0:12.9 | It's Lala. |
| 0:13.4 | I don't know if you say my name. |
| 0:15.5 | It's Lola Eric Koglu, and today we are covering something that is unusual, I would say, which is the solo safari. |
| 0:24.5 | And so we kind of put together a crack team of people that we know who have done it before because Lale and I have not. |
| 0:30.6 | And so we're joined by Traveler's very own features director, Alex Postman. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi there. |
| 0:35.0 | Contributor and writer Mary Holland. |
| 0:40.4 | Hi. And Roar Africa's CEO and founder Deb Callmeyer. Hi. It is so rare for all of you three to be in the same city, let alone |
| 0:46.9 | same country at the same time. So I'm very excited that you're all in this room. And this is like |
| 0:51.5 | accent podcast extraordinaire know i just it is |
| 0:56.2 | we've taken i have to come up with an accent i know i can pull out the southern draw but not |
| 1:01.5 | not well enough guys but i kind of wanted to just start talking about safaris in general which is |
| 1:06.5 | what is it that makes the safari such a dream trip for so many people and honestly one of the hardest to tackle? |
| 1:15.2 | I think a lot of it has to do with just the extraordinary circumstances. |
| 1:20.5 | For Americans, you're halfway around the world, if you're on an African safari or Indian safari. |
| 1:25.5 | You are in a landscape that is utterly unfamiliar to you and |
| 1:30.8 | sort of transporting. There are exerting on your emotions all the kind of cultural and literary |
| 1:40.2 | baggage you might bring to this experience, whether it's out of Africa or it's books you've read. |
| 1:45.7 | So expectations are high. And then I will say that nothing can really prepare you for encounters |
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