Tanzania’s Ruaha National Park: Boldly going to the final frontier

THIS IS the final frontier — our guide whispers.

All my travelling life, I’ve waited for somebody to say that. Travel is so generic, so packaged and marketed these days that you can spend years saving and searching for genuinely off-the-beaten track experiences. And this one really did make me feel like Captain Kirk.

OK, a bushwhacking Captain Kirk — but an explorer of the outer-reaches nevertheless.