The first time I went on a guided safari in an open vehicle, I honestly didn’t feel relaxed at all. No doors. No windows. No glass. Just me, a bench seat, and a lion that could jump higher than the vehicle’s roof without much effort. It felt counterintuitive: how could this possibly be safe?

What’s strange is that after all the safaris I’ve done since; guided game drives, walking safaris, boat safaris, I still feel safer on a self-drive safari in my own rental car, like