The lodges at Baker & Sons Safari are entirely off-the-grid. In the beginning stages this was born out of necessity, and later became a choice we continued with when power became available in the villages of the Rufiji for the first time – a campaign promise during the 2015 national election. We are equipped with a solar powered system, ten panels set high on a sturdy forty-foot tower which also supports a 5000 litre water tank. Beneath the tower is a 100-foot borehole water-well.. READ MORE
Baker & Sons Safari Co is intimately involved in the series of villages that share the same banks of the life-giving Rufiji River. Immediately next to the lodge is the village of Mloka – the last village outpost before the Selous Game Reserve. Baker & Sons has opened a school for Mloka, called the Rufiji Lighthouse, where volunteer teachers from abroad meet with locals to teach the English Language. Many ‘doors’ are opened for the local villagers who attend this school, not least of which improving the success rate of primary school students in Mloka village qualifying for secondary school education.. READ MORE
In 2013, Graydon & Sarah Baker, Canadians, made the international flight to Tanzania, and the adjoining landcruiser drive down bush roads to visit the Rufiji lands surrounding the Selous Game Reserve. This was their first of what was to become many trips. Graydon had studied zoology from the University of Guelph, Ontario, and Sarah nursing from Queens University. She also attended the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. They had a mutual desire for the wilder challenges and untamed country, which led them together and eventually to Tanzania to seek-out the most isolated setting, the Selous and surrounding wilderness, rich in animal populations and local culture.. READ MORE