About Us

Wild Again is a private guiding safari company that connects people to the wilderness. We believe that if we re-connect people with nature we change the world.

We know that you all connect with the wilderness in different ways. Some of you connect through walking and others prefer a vehicle, some through your camera lens and others with silence and meditation. Some prefer to travel with close friends and family and others on retreat with like-minded community. This is why we have three tenets to Wild Again (traditional safaris, wellness safaris and retreats). We strive to give you the opportunity to connect in whichever way best suits and serves you because ultimately the result is the same; when we re-connect with nature we change the world.

We pride ourselves on being a small, personalised company that has real and lasting relationships with its guests.

What is different about Wild Again is our passion for incorporating more conscious ways of being into safari. We challenge the standard way of doing things and offer guests a new approach, always with the greatest awareness to detail, safety, integrity and providing unique, outstanding experiences.

Amy Attenborough About Amy

About Amy Attenborough

Founder, Private Guide and Safari Planner

Being born the daughter of David Attenborough (it’s true but he’s probably not the one you’re thinking of) I don’t believe I ever really had much choice about what direction my life would take. I grew up in the city of Durban, South Africa but for as long as I can remember nature has called to me. Whenever I could I would escape to the forests around my home barefoot and in search of chameleons and red duiker to befriend.

And so in 2010, after completing my Journalism and Media Studies degree, I followed that calling to the wilds of Southern Africa to become a game ranger. I planned to stay for a year but it turned into ten.

During that time, I worked at Phinda Private Game Reserve, Ngala Private Game Reserve and Londolozi Game Reserve, some of South Africa’s most prestigious lodges and immersed myself in the natural world. I learnt to track animals with Zulu and Shangaan trackers and spent as much time as I could on foot approaching animals with my guests. I also put my photojournalism degree to use by becoming a specialist photographic guide. I travelled to Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, India and throughout South America in search of wildlife. My greatest adventure was living in Gabon training local guides for the WWF and Smithsonian Institute, where we spent weeks at a time living like early nomads in the dense and remote coastal forests, fulfilling a life-long dream of tracking and habituating wild gorillas.

Seeing how embodied and present animals are inspired me to begin practicing yoga. I am a qualified vinyasa and yin teacher and spent six months training under a Hatha master in Boulder, Colorado. I am also a certified Martha Beck life coach. With this mixture of knowledge, interests and skills, I started Wild Again to help others really experience the wild places I know and love so much. Through my specialised Wellness Safaris that incorporate yoga, meditation, mindfulness and personalised life coaching I continue to grow more conscious safaris that return people to nature and to themselves.

As we re-wild ourselves we hear the earth, our common mother, again. It is only then that we can co-create with her healing.

Nicci Cox

About Nicci Cox

Reservations and Safari Planner, Yoga Instructor

I only discovered my love for the bush in 2003, when my then boyfriend (now husband) took me on a day trip to the Kruger National Park. When a giraffe crossed the path of our car, I fell in love not only with the man sitting next to me but the wildness and adventure that the bush had to offer.

An insatiable craving for the wilderness led to a holiday home in Olifants North Game Reserve in 2007 where I started to spend extended amounts of time exploring, learning and immersing myself in nature. Since then we have done multiple trips throughout Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Tanzania as well as worked in Kenya and Ghana.

I started to practice yoga in 2015. In 2018, after losing the heart for advertising, I left a 20 year career behind to practice, study and teach yoga.

In 2019, I travelled to Costa Rica to complete the Jivamukti 300 hour teacher training in the stunning wilderness area of Nosara, which got me thinking, how do I combine my passions into one?

Call it fate, serendipity or karma but a mutual friend introduced Amy and I and as they say, the rest is history.

I am extensively travelled, ridiculously organised, and very detail oriented. I am a lover of upside down poses, adventure, the beach and wilderness, and with over 600 hours of yoga training behind me now a certified Jivamukti teacher. I am currently working towards a FGASA Apprentice Field Guide qualification.

I firmly believe in embodying the tenets of my practice but first and foremost – kindness and compassion for the earth and all its beings, through my thoughts, words and actions.

Being part of the Wild Again team means combining all my passions for the bush, yoga, wellness and travel into one incredible adventure.

I cannot wait to help you plan your ultimate trip and re-connect you with Africa, its wild inhabitants and ultimately yourself.

About Roan Du Plessis

Private Guide and Safari Planner

I was fortunate enough to go on my first private safari when I was seven years old. The ranger, unknowing of the profound impact this would have on my life, asked me to take the tracker’s seat and test my skills at spotting. In hindsight I probably wasn’t very good but the experience stayed with me many years after.

Years later, in 2012, I completed a degree in Environmental Geographical Sciences, whilst doing wildlife courses throughout my university holidays. Upon graduating, I did my trails course in the Makhuleke region and then started as a guide in the Klaserie, after which I moved to Ngala Private Game Reserve in 2014. What was meant to be a two year break from the hustle and bustle of city life has now evolved into a ten year career of remarkable and unforgettable moments.

The impact of this industry and the beauty of the natural world that we share with guests is something that can’t be described and rather needs to be experienced. There is something truly magical about spending time amongst the wild of Africa; whether it be on foot, on a vehicle or on a run with all senses on edge. It’s here that we connect back to our place in the wilderness!

Now is the greatest time to be wild again.

About Bruce Arnott

Private Guide and Safari Planner

I am someone who has always been interested in nature. I’ve loved the outdoors throughout my life. I grew up fishing, hiking, running and playing outside. I spent countless days standing on the banks of rivers and dams casting my line into the water. I have also always had an interest in and affinity for people.

We loved camping as a family and have been lucky enough to have explored Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa together!

I studied politics, philosophy and economics at university which gave me a rounded insight into the workings of the world and as my excitement for nature and people grew, I was led from there into guiding. I wanted to learn about both the wilderness and people.

The time I spent working at Londolozi Private Game Reserve was life-changing. Those years gave me a deeper understanding of nature and a deeper connection with people and with myself.

I want to share with people what I’ve learnt about nature and share in the life-changing, unforgettable experiences that invariably come from time spent in the wild.

We are naturally wild and free at heart and all have the capacity to have childlike fun. The problem is, many of us become disconnected from our natural state of being and with nature itself. We need to become Wild Again!

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