A REASON TO BE
DENISE BROWN, USA
Growing up, when I watched documentaries about Africa my heart would beat faster and I felt this incredibly strong yearning, as if the continent was reaching out to me. When I had finally saved up enough money to visit, nobody else could come along – so I went to Tanzania alone. From the moment I stepped off the plane, I felt like I was home. A sense of belonging rose in me, like part of my soul had reunited with a long lost other part.
Every day going deeper into the wilderness, I felt more love for the country and its people. Nowhere else have I felt more energised, more at peace with myself and my surroundings – and with this sense of freedom. I lived solely in the present. I felt complete. This is what a soul place will do. It opens something you never even knew was closed and embraces and amplifies an inner longing, long ignored.
Once I returned to the US, all I wanted was to go back to Tanzania and make it part of my life. Robert – my guide on that first trip – and I realised we shared the same passion and vision: to enable visitors to get to know the life that exists outside the national parks, and give back to the communities that had so warmly welcomed me. And so Sababu Safaris was born.
CREATING BABANANGO
HELLMUTH WEISSER, GERMANY
