Kenya, at the pace it deserves.
We are a small team in Nairobi who plan safaris one at a time. No call centre, no handovers — the person who answers your first email is the person who meets you at the airport.
Open country across four countries, and the particular corners we trust.
Each of these is somewhere we send guests repeatedly, because the guiding is good and the camps answer the phone.
Kenya
Where the safari was invented.
Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Oct
Maasai Mara
Big cats, open plains, and the river crossing.
Best Jul–Oct
Amboseli
Elephants beneath Kilimanjaro.
Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Oct
Samburu
The dry north and its five special species.
Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Sep
Laikipia
Conservancies, rhino, and almost no one else.
Best Jan–Mar, Jun–Oct
Diani & the coast
White sand at the end of the safari.
Best Jan–Mar, Jul–Oct
Serengeti
The migration, and the plains it moves across.
Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Oct
Zanzibar
Spice, stone town, and the Indian Ocean.
Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Oct
Sundowners on the plains, an hour before the drive back.
We would rather send you somewhere quieter than somewhere famous.
Most operators sell the Mara in August because it is what people ask for. Sometimes that is right. Often it is not — the crossings are crowded, the rates are at their peak, and the same money buys a private conservancy with better guiding and nobody else at the sighting.
We will tell you when that is the case. It is the whole reason to use a person instead of a website.
They moved our whole trip forward by a week because the rains were early. We would never have known to ask.
Tell us roughly what you want. We will do the rest.
Seven short questions, about three minutes. A real itinerary comes back within a day.