Barbrah Naserian Kimongo’o, Emboo Aged just 23, Barbrah Naserian Kimongo’o has spent four years as a safari guide at Emboo, the mould-breaking Kenyan Maasai Mara camp. Founded by Belgian couple Valery Super and Loic Amado, the camp is known for its pioneering focus on sustainability , such as having East Africa’s first full fleet of solar-powered electric safari vehicles. “Being a guide isn’t traditionally a woman’s job in Maasai culture.
A lot of people are surprised to see me behind the wheel on game drives. But I want to show that we have the same passion and strength as men. And I hope that more safari companies will be like Emboo, where everything is geared towards the environment: solar power, recycled rainwater, the chlorine-free pool, the biogas used for cooking, all of it.
And obviously the cars, which have no carbon emissions but also almost no sound. We had a blind guest, and witnessing him connect to the animals through sound was so inspiring.” emboo.
camp Film directors shifting into hospitality isn’t new; for example, Francis Ford Coppola’s mini-empire, from Belize ’s Turtle Inn and Coral Caye to Palazzo Margherita in Italy’s Matera, or Château Margüi in Provence , part of George Lucas’s Skywalker Retreats. Ridley Scott is the latest to join this A list, opening three smartly updated guest villas at Mas des Infermières, the vineyard in Luberon, France , owned by his family since 1992, where he’s been figuring out how to make award-.