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Brian has always nurtured his passion for travel in his spare time. He's traveled the world, visiting over 40 countries.
Over time, this passion grew to the point where he began to search for opportunities to work in the travel industry. He's been an African Specialist at Mango Safaris since early 2006.
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The Camp
Loliondo has never simply been about 'just more Serengeti', so we wanted our camp here to be a tented camp with a difference; one that reflected the space and freedom that, to us, define the area.
Photo copyright Nomad Tanzania.
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Overview
With wide panoramic windows, the interiors of the yurts are light and airy, whilst the sheepskin hot water bottles and piping hot safari showers keep you warm in even the crispest of highland mornings. Each tent has its own spacious ensuite bathroom with water, heated in firewood boilers, brought on demand.
And like the Maasai, Nduara Loliondo is nomadic; every 6 months, the camp is packed up and moved. In Ololosokwan, where you'll find the camp between June and November, the tents sit high on a ridge with commanding views over a broad acacia-lined valley. In the mornings and evenings the sights and sounds of Maasai life permeate the air as cattle move too and from a local manyatta.
In Piyaya, to the South, where the camp moves between December and May, the scenery changes dramatically and the yurts sit beneath vast skies on the edge of wide and endless plains. The main mess and dining areas, beside a mature spreading acacia tree, look out over a small vlei.
Nduara is somewhere you can be highly active. With walks lead by local Maasai morani, picnics, game drives and night drives, all planned with your guide to allow you to take things at your own pace. If you feel like it you can be busy all day.
But after a few days charging around in the Serengeti most of our guests take the opportunity to really kick back here. Nduara lends itself to lazy mornings, relaxed lunches, or time just sitting and reading.
And after a while, the rhythm of life, the comings and goings of cattle, the meal times becomes deeply seductive and you begin to remember how it feels not to do anything.
And to us, the saving grace and the reason it isn't over-run with minibuses, is its seasonality and a dogged unpredictability that means that it'll never appeal to those people who are simply here to tick off the next animal.
Loliondo is a sensational place, it's scenically magnificent with its wide rolling valleys and whale-backed mountain ranges; at times it can overwhelm with its combination of magnificent wildlife followed by rarified emptiness. But more than anything, it's a place to take in slowly, to let the mixture of Maasai culture, rugged wilderness and wildlife slowly soak in.
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