Hello,
We were recently on safari with Nomad and wanted to write
not so much to praise the fantastic camps (Ndutu and Loliondo), the friendly
and professional staff, or the great food (all of which deserve a great deal of praise) but to specifically applaud the behaviour of your
guides.
Our guide, Rowland, was wonderful: friendly, knowledgable
and he really contributed to making our safari a magical experience. During our
safari we realised that all of this was accompanied by something that was
perhaps even more important to us: an approach to animals that was both
respectful and responsible.
Rowland demonstrated this from the start by never
crowding the animals we saw. And it was this feature that we realised was
common to all Nomad guides. Whilst some other vehicles would crowd in,
effectively making the animal(s) change their behaviour in some way (direction,
purpose, etc.) the Nomad vehicles we saw during our drives were all ensuring
animals had space.
Not only was such an approach something we valued but, in
fact, it actually provided us with wonderful experiences where animals would
walk up to and around the vehicle because it hadn't been driven very close to
them from the start.
The Nomad guides certainly deserve plaudits for their
behaviour - but the creation of such an ethos also stems from the company for
whom they work and clearly Nomad has adopted an approach which provides a
fantastic opportunity for tourists, but without compromising the animals who
they have come to see.
Thank you once again for providing us with a wonderful
experience - and we hope that one day we will be back!
Best wishes,
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