The Africa you were promised.
Private, conservation-led safaris across Kenya and East Africa — written one guest at a time by specialists who have slept in every camp on our list.
We do not sell safaris. We design ten days of your life, and then we answer the telephone at midnight.
A journey with us is drawn from a conversation, not a catalogue. We ask what you want your mornings to feel like, how far you will walk, whether you would rather be alone with a leopard than photograph a lion in company — and we build the days from the answers.
Our list is short on purpose. Forty-one camps and lodges across nine countries, each one visited, eaten at and slept in by someone in this office. If we say the second tent looks over the lugga, we mean the second tent, in September, before the rains.
Two-thirds of our guests come back, and most arrive by introduction from someone who did. That is the whole of our marketing, and the reason a single specialist stays with your journey from the first call to the last night under canvas.
2016
Founded in Nairobi
41
Camps and lodges we know by name
68%
Of guests travel with us again
24/7
Concierge, in-country, for every journey
Featured destinations
Masai Mara
KenyaThe finest concentration of big cats in Africa, and river crossings from late July. We favour the private conservancies on its northern edge.
Explore the Mara Amboseli — elephant beneath KilimanjaroAmboseli
KenyaGreat-tusked elephant families against Kilimanjaro. Two nights is enough; the light at dawn is the reason to go.
Explore Amboseli Samburu — doum palms along the Ewaso NyiroSamburu
Northern KenyaArid, dramatic and quieter: gerenuk, Grevy's zebra and reticulated giraffe found nowhere further south.
Explore Samburu Serengeti — acacia plain, wide horizonSerengeti
TanzaniaThe other half of the migration, and the reason our fourteen-day grand journey crosses the border by light aircraft.
Explore the SerengetiSignature journeys
Classic Kenya
7 nights · from $9,400 ppAmboseli, the Mara's northern conservancies and two nights in the Nairobi hills. The journey we send first-time guests on.
View the itinerary Light aircraft on a bush stripThe Fly-in Collection
8 nights · from $16,800 ppFour camps, no long transfers, all movement by private light aircraft. For travellers with more taste than time.
View the itinerary Wildebeest at a river crossingEast Africa Grand Journey
14 nights · from $28,500 ppKenya and Tanzania in one arc, timed to the crossings, ending with three nights on the Indian Ocean.
View the itineraryForty-one places, each one slept in first
Six-tent camps on private conservancies. A colonial house above the Rift with a cook who has been there thirty years. A treehouse on the Ewaso Nyiro reached on foot. We place you by temperament rather than star rating — and we will talk you out of the famous lodge if the quiet one is better that week.
See how we choose campsLuxury safari experiences
Fly-in safaris
Private charters between camps, so the day belongs to the game drive rather than the road.
Read more Detail — long lens on a bean bag, dawn lightPhotographic expeditions
Converted vehicles, hides, and guides who understand why you will sit with one cheetah for four hours.
Read more Detail — dinner laid under a fig tree at duskHoneymoon escapes
Bush to ocean, with the two evenings that matter arranged before you arrive and never mentioned again.
Read moreWho vouches for us
4.9
Average of 312 verified guest reviews
2024
Kenya Tourism Federation — Responsible Operator
Silver
Ecotourism Kenya eco-rating, 2023 and 2025
2025
Safari Awards — Best Safari Specialist, East Africa, finalist
Memberships
- Kenya Association of Tour Operators
- Ecotourism Kenya
- Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association
- The Long Run
Bonding and insurance
- Fully bonded and insured
- Client funds held in trust until travel
- IATA-accredited ticketing partner
- All charter operators AOC-audited
Conservation
- Conservancy fees itemised on every invoice
- 1% of turnover to the Mara Predator Project
- Leases supporting 340 Maasai households
- The full accounting →
“They talked us out of the itinerary we asked for and built a better one. Four nights in one conservancy instead of four camps in eight days, and it was the right call.”
Eleanor Whitfield · March 2026“The conservancy fee was itemised on the invoice with a note on where it went. No other operator we approached would do that.”
Marcus Oyelaran · January 2026“A flight was cancelled at Amboseli and we found out because our guide already knew. It was re-routed before we had finished breakfast.”
Sophie Lindqvist · November 2025“They moved a whole week for us when the river came up, and never once made it feel like a favour. Our fourth journey with them, and the first we did not plan ourselves.”
The land pays for itself, or it is sold. That is the whole argument.
Every journey carries a conservancy levy paid directly to the Maasai and Samburu landowners whose grazing becomes wildlife habitat. In 2025 that came to USD 412,000 across eleven conservancies — lease payments, forty-one ranger salaries and two mobile veterinary units.
$412k
Paid to conservancies in 2025
11
Community conservancies supported
41
Ranger salaries funded
100%
Of camps on community or private land
Planning your journey
The conversation
An hour on a call — season, pace, what you have seen before, what you would rather avoid. No itinerary is written before this.
The first draft
Within four days you receive a written journey: camps, routing, guide, costs in full. Then we re-write it as often as you like.
The holding
We hold provisional space while you decide, and confirm on a 25% deposit. Balance due sixty days before travel.
The journey
Airport-side welcome, one guide throughout, and a Nairobi number answered by a person for the whole of your trip.
Tell us the month, and we will tell you where to be
Every enquiry is read by a specialist, not a queue. Expect a written reply within one working day — and a first draft journey within four.
Before you enquire
What does a luxury safari cost?
Our journeys begin at approximately USD 1,150 per person per night for private-guided travel — camps, all flights inside the itinerary, park and conservancy fees, a dedicated guide and vehicle included. Fly-in itineraries and exclusive-use houses sit meaningfully higher; a seven-night Classic Kenya runs from USD 9,400 per person sharing.
When is the best time for a Kenya safari?
June to October is dry, reliable and the season of the Mara river crossings from late July. January to March is warm, green and far quieter, with excellent cat viewing and the best rates on the finest camps. April, May and November are the rains: some camps close, those that stay open are near-empty, and the photography can be extraordinary.
Do you offer private guides?
Always. Every journey includes a private guide and vehicle from arrival to departure, and your guide travels the whole route with you rather than being handed over at each camp. It is the single largest difference between a good safari and one you talk about for twenty years.
Is a safari suitable for children?
Yes, with thought. We place families in camps that welcome children genuinely rather than tolerate them, shorten drives, and build in swimming, riding, tracking lessons and time out of the vehicle. Most conservancies accept children from six; a handful of walking itineraries require twelve.
How far in advance should we book?
Nine to twelve months for July-to-October travel and for the festive fortnight, when the best small camps sell out first. Outside those windows six months is usually comfortable, and we have built fine journeys in six weeks. We will hold provisional space while an itinerary is being written.