Is a horse safari safe?
An honest answer, because a horse is an animal: we will not call this perfectly safe.
Horse riding is not risk-free, and no honest operator will tell you otherwise. What we can tell you is what is done on every ride so that it goes well: a safety briefing and riding instructions before anyone mounts, a riding helmet available for every rider, each rider matched to a horse that suits their build and confidence, the group led by the guide at a walk, the route managed for the day's conditions, the weather watched, and the horses' welfare looked after — because a calm, healthy horse is a steadier horse.
Before anyone mounts
- The safety briefing and riding instructions — how to sit, steer and stop, done standing still
- A riding helmet available for every rider
- A horse matched to you — build, confidence, experience — by instructors who know each horse
On the trail
- Professional supervision from the first minute to the last — the guide is alongside the group, not ahead of it
- The group organised and led at a walk; a faster stretch is offered only to experienced riders, at the guide's discretion, and never to anyone who does not want it
- The route managed on the day for ground conditions, the group's ability and the horses
- The weather watched — in bad weather the ride is moved or refunded in full
- A staff member at the horse's head for a child or a nervous first-timer, on request
Your part
Follow the guide's instructions. Wear comfortable clothing and closed shoes. Tell us before the ride about anything that might matter — pregnancy, a back problem, a first-timer who is nervous, a child's age. Pregnancy, and serious back or mobility problems, rule the ride out; who can join lists the recorded limits.
What we will not say
We will never say it is risk-free, never say nothing can go wrong, and never say a helmet makes an accident impossible. Any of those would be a sentence written for a search engine rather than for a rider.
What we say instead is what is done, on every ride, and it is on this page.
The horses' side of it
A steady ride starts with a steady horse: regularly monitored, under veterinary supervision, rested when not fit to work, and matched to the rider rather than the other way round. How the horses are cared for is its own page.
Ready to ride?
One ride to book, three to request, hotel transfer included, nothing charged online.
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