They abandoned civilization and left for remote Africa. How Saba Douglas lives away from home for 25 years

Sometimes you get so bored with the bustle of the city, polluted air and water with the smell of bleach, that you want to go to distant lands and feel life in pristine nature. So did Saba Douglas Hamilton, a wildlife specialist. She moved to live in Kenya with her father back in 1997, and for 25 years she has been living in the Samburu National Reserve next to elephants and other representatives of the African wildlife.

Life is an adventure

It is impossible to say that life among wild animals is safe and attractive. We have to be afraid of rabid animals, snakes and scorpions. Meeting with them does not bode well and even threatens with a fatal outcome. But Saba is not going to return to Britain, where she comes from. She has a family – a husband and three daughters. There is also a business that allows you to support a family and a house.

The family also had to repeatedly deal with natural disasters – floods, drought. Sometimes wild animals burst into their house, which do not see any obstacles in front of them. There is no hospital nearby, no schools. But Saba does not lose heart: the children study remotely, you can get to the clinic by jeep.

The meeting

The biggest threat to Saba’s young children are the ubiquitous scorpions. When the daughters were 6 and 4 years old, they had to be constantly monitored. Saba and her husband Frank Pope hired a warrior from a local African tribe to be with the children at all times and protect them from animal attacks. Just at that time, a rabid leopard appeared in the area.

This “mustachioed nanny” really liked the girls, as he knows how to get along with children. He teaches them the basics of survival in the wild, the songs and dances of his tribe, and many other interesting things. And parents are calm in their souls that their children are under the reliable protection of a strong person.

Does the English family regret that they have gone so far from the civilized world? Despite all the difficulties, life in the wild is full of charm. And this charm is much stronger than difficulties and even dangers. No, they don’t regret anything. And communication with the civilized world can be maintained using the Internet.