The Safari Series sat down with Acting Chief of Makurian Ranch, Maurine Lecher, to discuss how she is breaking barrier in her region by being the first ever female in a leadership role - an unusual achievement that goes against traditional gender roles in her culture.

The world has changed beyond all recognition. Words like ‘lockdown’, ‘social distancing’ and ‘Coronavirus’ have now become part of our daily lives. The travel industry has been hit more than most, and this downtime has given both myself and Ed the chance to think about the future. Not just our future as a family, but the future of our business, our camp, our industry and our planet.

With this in mind, we came up with a set of promises that we will try to keep to after the world returns to ‘normal’ - if or when it does. We feel that Covid-19 has given us a unique change to make real change to a situation that was thought to be past the point of no return. We cannot waste of lose this change. We must act, and we must act fast.

Read our post about how we aim to protect our guests from Covid-19 here.

Are we nearly there yet? If Romilly could talk, surely this would be the question she would ask. Instead, I ask it on a daily basis instead. There is talk that the inter-county lockdown that has been imposed on Kenya for the last 10 weeks will be lifted at the end of this week, but no one really knows at all (everyone still has an opinion: mine is that it is 50/50 each way). I really hope so though, as the camp is missing guests sorely and some life here would be joyous.

I put a post on the Conde Nast Facebook group called ‘Women Who Travel’ (which as over 120,000 followers) asking if anyone had a question for any woman in the world, what would it be. I attached a photo of a couple of women from the local Maasai Cultural Centre which we take guests to to learn and exchange cultures with the women who work there. I got nearly 300 questions! You can read the replies I wrote from the two Maasai ladies I interviewed here..