The Manager Field Guides:

Kwihala Guiding and Management is one of the best services we provide with regard to knowledge. Highly qualified and excellent guides from Clearly Africa Guided Safaris guide and manage this spectacular camp throughout the year in rotation.
They are trained to conduct game drives in Ruaha National Park and being resident in the park are aware of animal movements and the best locations and times of day to view wildlife and birdlife. They are familiar with the topography of the park and are a veritable mine of information on animals, birds, trees, flowers, insects etc. The nature guides are always available in the camp to impart their specialist knowledge.

The resident 'family' of guides, managers and staff are there to make sure that each guest enjoys the Kwihala camping experience to the full. It is designed to be a canvas 'home' in the bush rather than a hotel or a safari lodge. Our guests’ enjoyment is our reward.

Please see below CVs of our current Manager Guides.

Steven Roskelly

 

From an early age Steve has been preoccupied with wildlife and nature and his working life has been spent in the field of nature reserves, wild animals and wide-open spaces.

Living in, and having travelled extensively in, Southern Africa, he realises that nature is where his heart and passion lies. Private and guiding journeys to the wilderness areas of Tanzania, Botswana and Namibia have re-enforced his keen desire for travel and the exploration of unknown habitats and their natural inhabitants.

Guiding experience from open vehicles, on foot and in light aircraft, from low veldt savannas to lowland Sand Forests and rugged coastlines are among Steve’s repertoire of working activities. In addition to guiding, Steve has also spent time training the next generation of Field Guides based in various reserves across the Limpopo low veldt.

Steve’s formal credentials include a degree in Botany & Zoology as well as top guiding and tracking qualifications from the Field Guides Association of Southern Africa. Steve’s passion for nature and photography together with his bush-skills, honed over many years as a wildlife guide, have taught him to be humble in the presence of the wildlife that surrounds us.

"If one listens, nature will speak of wonders and awaken the strongest of human emotions"

Pietro Luraschi - currently managing the camp, from 1st June - Oct 2011

Born in Milan in 1975
His passion for Africa took him to the continent first as a volunteer in the Tarangire Lion Project, a research project on the lion population in the Tarangire National Park in Northern Tanzania.

He studied to become a professional guide in South Africa in the Kruger National Park, where he received his qualifications for ARH (Advanced Rifle Handling) and Level 2 qualification from FGASA (Field Guide Association of Southern Africa), the most accredited association of safari guides in Africa. He also received a qualification as a Trails Guide, again from FGASA, regarding the conduct of walking safaris in areas with potentially dangerous game. This was obtained at Beho Beho in Tanzania.

 

 

 

He has worked as a guide and as camp manager in southern Tanzania in two of the wildest and most untouched areas in the African continent, Ruaha National Park and Selous Game Reserve.

During these years he has heightened his knowledge of the bush by working for three different camps, Mdonya Old River Camp, Selous Impala Camp and Lake Manze Camp.
He Speaks Kiswahili.

"Bwana wa porini"

 

Marius Swart

Since 1992 Marius has been passionately sharing the splendours of nature with friends and strangers alike. With a penchant for walking safaris he developed a sense of awareness and pace, which provides for an experience of being an observer rather than a participant in Nature’s flow of events. Considering himself a generalist, as his interests are as divergent as nature itself, he thrives in discovering new wild places and piecing together the components which underpin their cycles.

Preferring small groups of guests and quiet concessions has led him to some spectacular and unknown regions where interpretation occurs naturally and spontaneously, as the events and behaviour displayed by the wildlife are observed.

Marius enjoys photography, adventure motorcycling and flying as hobbies when he isn’t “working”...

"Please join me for a journey of discovery, not only of nature’s treasure chest, but of yourself."

Festo Rafaelle Ntayaye

Born in 1974 to a father who was a Game Ranger in Rungwa and Selous Game Reserves, Festo accompanied his Dad on numerous patrols and thus developed a fascination for nature and the wildlife they observed.

After school Festo completed a one year course in Guiding and started working as a guide in Selous Game Reserve where he conducted drives and walks, sharing his knowledge and experiences with guests.

After a few years in Selous he found an opportunity to guide in Ruaha National Park which is situated next to his childhood haunt of Rungwa. Here he honed his skills as guide and excelled as interpreter of all things wild.

Today he is still in Ruaha and his passion for the Park is clearly visible.

Festo really enjoys bird-watching as well as taking time to calmly sit and observe the events around him as they happen. “This way one is able to really get to understand how things fit together”.

 

 

 

 

Lorenzo Rossi

Born in Italy in 1984. Speaks English, Italian and some Kiswahili.

On completing his studies in Economic Engineering in Milano in 2009 he decided

to visit Tanzania to enjoy his passion for nature. He visited Arusha and Kwihala camp
and then decided to make tourism and guiding in Tanzania his career.

He first took a course in South Africa and gained his level 1 in guiding with FGASA
(Field Guide Association of Southern Africa). He is now assistant manager at Selous Impala Camp.

He loves football, tennis, fishing and just to be out in the bush.