Safaris aren’t just for newlyweds and families. Here’s what it’s like to go alone

Safaris are a bit like grown-up summer camps and the number of solo travellers has been steadily, if quietly, growing. Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account

“You’re here by yourself?” The taxi driver sounded surprised. Or, perhaps, simply unused to ferrying lone, middle-aged women to Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro International Airport, where I planned to hop a propeller plane to a dirt airstrip in the middle of the country’s vast savannah.

I’m married (happily); I have friends (I swear). Yet going on safari alone intrigued me, because even as solo travel has soared in popularity , safaris retain their reputation as the realm of families and honeymooners. I wondered what it would be like to experience one of the world’s wil