After their time on a Kruger safari, however, they leave us with something more, a sense of fullness and contentment in their souls.
It’s an irony of the digitally hyper-connected age that disconnection from others, and own selves, has never been more prevalent. One of the reasons for this is digital sensory deprivation. When we are immersed in our screens, only two of our senses are engaged, sight and sound. Absorption in digital content pulls our attention away from the real world around us. Too often, its feel, taste and scent pass us by completely. The result? Feeling fundamentally fragmented, deficient and disconnected.
Science has proven that spending time in nature improves emotional well-being, cognition and physical health. Stress and anxiety are soothed, and our thinking becomes clear and more creative. Blood pressure lowers, our heart rate slows, tension eases in our muscles and stress hormone levels are reduced.
But there’s more. The natural environment also ignites our innate sense of wonder, that often we haven’t felt much since we were children. As we take in the splendour and beauty around us, we are filled with profound appreciation. Our curiosity sparks, and we think much more expansively about our place in the world and what we really want from our one life on this earth. Under big, clear skies, surrounded by the African bush, taking in the magnificent wildlife with all five senses alive, the intangible mysteriously becomes tangible to us and in response, our spirit rises.
You’ll find this awareness of oneness in all sorts of moments during your stay with us – feeling the cool, dawn air brush your cheek on a morning game drive; soaking up the sun on a pool lounger while peaceful elephants come down to drink at the Sabie River in front of you; passing by a shy bushbuck grazing in the hotel’s lush garden; hearing the hoots of a pair of Spotted Eagles Owls as you sit around the firepit sharing stories of the day.