In-country experience. 

Lyndsay has been traveling to Africa for over 25 years - well over 50 trips - surfing in Morocco, hiking in Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains, working with local artisans in Tanzania, sleeping under the stars in Namibia, tracking wild dogs in Kenya. Lyndsay first started exploring Latin America well over a decade ago, catching rays on Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan during the dreary Seattle winter, hiking the "W" in Torres del Paine, and sampling Argentina’s best food and wine. Amani Travel brings offers experience-based travel that is carefully curated to meet your 'travel personality' and interests. Lyndsay spends on average two to three months a year on the ground in the destinations that she works with, and continues to return year after year keeping tabs on the condition of camps and lodges, seasonal wildlife movements, road conditions, management and staff at properties, and more.

Personalized service & curated travel.

Each custom tour begins with an in-depth face-to-face meeting, Google Meet or phone call. Lyndsay takes the time to learn about your travel preferences, goals and dreams. Think big: Spot wild dog or Africa’s threatened cats. Dine by candlelight at the foot of a Maya ruin. Trek to the Ethiopia’s most remote churches. Explore Tikal with a National Geographic Explorer in Residence. Think details: Oat milk. Personal shoppers. Custom jewelry (hip in Cape Town or hand-hewn over coals in Tanzania). A private wine tasting in the cellars of one of Tuscany's star women winemakers. Advance dinner bookings at 'Top 50' restaurants or a stop at the best roadside tamale stand in Belize.

No bias and long-standing relationships.

Amani does not own camps, lodges or hotels overseas, and therefore, does not have quotas or bed-night requirements to fill. Lyndsay designs tours based on individual interests and needs, and prefers to work with family-owned and operated properties wherever possible. The guides, camps, hotels and experiences Amani includes in its travelers’ journeys are the result of decades of world travel, relationships maintained over the years and trust in the fact that travel bridges almost any gap. The world is so big to begin with, let’s keep travel small…

Family Travel.

There are few family travel “experts” with families as well traveled as Lyndsay’s. By age five, her son had spent three months in Africa - on two different trips - exploring Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique and Kenya. He’s visited his relatives in Norway's Arctic Circle, made friends with village kids in Guatemala and built sandcastles on the beach in Belize.

Amani will craft a family holiday to entertain and challenge your kids, and let you relax and enjoy your time away from daily life. Family-friendly lodges and tented camps in the Galapagos (for those parents who just know a week on a boat will be far from relaxing), hands-on chocolate making classes in Antigua, mother-daughter shopping in Cape Town, mobile camping across the Serengeti plains learning how to shoot a bow and arrow with Maasai warriors, father-son trout fishing in Kenya’s most remote lakes. Need more ideas? Just ask.