Tom Harari
Country Director
I have been fortunate enough to live, work and travel in various parts of this wonderful world. In particular I have spent considerable time in Latin America experiencing some of its many fascinating facets. I have hung out with sloths, tapirs, capybaras, condors, llamas, penguins, macaws, rheas, caymans, giant otters...etc. I have sailed across the Southern Ocean to Antarctica and down the Amazon river. I have wandered through the ancient ruins of the Mayas and the Incas. I have ridden horses with Gauchos in Argentina, danced the night away at the Rio Carnival and watched a space rocket take off in French Guiana. I have swam with sea lions, turtles, sharks, rays and penguins in the Galapagos, stared at big stone heads on Easter Island and sped across surreal salt-flats in Bolivia. I’ve trekked in the jungles of Guatemala, the highlands of Peru and the wilds of southern Patagonia. And I’ve barely done a fraction of what’s out there...
Countries you sell?
Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Galapagos, Mexico, Peru
What has been your favourite travel experience?
It’s a three-way draw between the Gorillas in Rwanda, the Galapagos Islands and Antarctica.
The best hotel/lodge that you have stayed in?
A tent in the African bush. May not be the most comfortable or luxurious but having lions, elephants and zebras as your neighbours takes some beating.
What has been your most remote travel experience?
Easter Island – the most isolated inhabited island on earth.
Most embarrassing travel experience?
Not realising that the sausage-like piece of meat in the middle of a Tagine dish in Mauritania was actually a ram’s penis.
Your one luxury when you travel?
A cork-screw: it’s very annoying to have a good bottle of wine but no way to open it.
What’s your best piece of travel advice?
A big smile and a bucket-load of patience will get you out of a sticky situation more readily than an angry demeanour.
Where you would like to visit next and why?
The answer to this one is ever changing though Indonesia is high on my list.