Everything you need to know about going on safari in Africa

By Catherine Marshall
Updated February 6 2016 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
Thanda game drive, Africa. Photo: Lucinda Lacon
Thanda game drive, Africa. Photo: Lucinda Lacon
On safari at Thanda Private Game Reserve. Photo: Catherine Marshall
On safari at Thanda Private Game Reserve. Photo: Catherine Marshall
Thanda Private Game Reserve and tented camp, Africa. Photo: Lucinda Lacon
Thanda Private Game Reserve and tented camp, Africa. Photo: Lucinda Lacon
Thanda conservation efforts - zebra arrival. Photo: Lucinda Lacon
Thanda conservation efforts - zebra arrival. Photo: Lucinda Lacon

It's 1992 and I'm drinking my first ever gin and tonic in the courtyard of Nairobi's historic Norfolk Hotel. It's only right that I should order a drink unfamiliar to me yet favoured by Kenya's notorious Happy Valley set – British colonials said to have lived a life of indulgence in this African paradise in the 1940s.

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