Marula Hill
Shape your safari
Five questions, and an honest first sketch of the trip we would draw for you.
Before the conversation
The shape of your safari
Five questions we would ask you anyway. No lodges, no prices, nothing to sign up for. At the end you get a first sketch of the trip we would start drawing for you, and we get a head start on the conversation.
About a minute. You see your sketch before we ask you for anything.
What we ask
Five questions, and none of them about your budget
This is the same opening conversation we would have with you on a first call. Nothing you tap is binding, and you can change any answer as you go.
- iWhat you are drawn to. Water, big cats, the herds on the move, desert, walking, or a first safari.
- iiWho is travelling. The two of you, a family, a small group, or on your own.
- iiiWhen you could go. The dry winter months, the green season, or school holidays.
- ivWhat pace suits you. One place, two bases, or keep moving.
- vHow many nights you are imagining.
What you get
A first sketch, drawn on the screen
No email address, no waiting on a document to land in your inbox. The page draws it at the end of the five questions.
- WhereThe country we would start with, and why it answers what you told us.
- The daysWhat a morning and an afternoon look like on that kind of trip.
- What to knowThe one thing that tends to decide it, said plainly.
- A question backWhat we would want to ask you next.
If the sketch looks like your trip, one button opens the conversation and your answers travel with the message, so you are not typing it all out again. Vikki or Sian reads it and replies personally.
Or instead.
No planning fee·Owner-run from Hoedspruit·SATSA No. 3049·A reply from Vikki or Sian, never a call centre
i
What are you drawn to?
Pick the one that made you pause.
ii
Who is travelling?
This changes more than people expect: the pacing, the vehicles, which lodges we would even put in front of you.
Your shape so far · tap to change
iii
When could you go?
The same reserve can be two different places in May and November. “Whenever is best” is a perfectly good answer.
Your shape so far · tap to change
iv
What pace suits you?
There is no right answer. There is a wrong itinerary.
Your shape so far · tap to change
v
How many nights are you imagining?
Roughly is fine. Nobody is holding you to it.
Your shape so far · tap to change
Sketching your trip
Your first sketch
A first sketch
i
The shape of it
ii
How the days tend to run
iii
The question we would ask you first
What we already know, so you need not repeat it
This is a first sketch rather than a quote. The real trip gets drawn in conversation, and everything you have told us arrives with your message, so nobody asks you to repeat yourself.
Write to us
Your answers are in the message below, so nothing gets lost. Change anything that is not quite right.
Thank you. That is with us now.
Sian reads every one of these herself, and she will write back personally rather than send you a template.
Check your inbox for a short note asking you to confirm the letter. Nothing else comes until you do.
If it is easier to talk, we are on WhatsApp.
One of us will write back, usually Sian.
Prefer to skip the form? sian@marulahill.com · WhatsApp +27 82 459 0648
