Most safaris are spent looking down. A growing number of camps and lodges offer the opposite: a hide at the water’s edge, level with the wildlife. We look at where it is done well and why it shapes how we plan.

Anna Walker Travel on Conservation Rooms and the wider shift in luxury safari from conservation as a programme to conservation as the organising principle of the lodge.

Richard Walker, Director of Anna Walker Travel, on the journey from a boyhood safari in Kenya to a working commitment to thoughtful travel and why Anna Walker Travel has recently joined the Conscious Travel Foundation.

Anna Walker, founder of Anna Walker Travel, on why thoughtful travel across sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean creates experiences that are extraordinary for the traveller and genuinely good for the places they visit.