Every Journey We Curate

How to choose between them

Fourteen itineraries sounds like a lot until you realise the choice collapses into three questions: how many days you have, whether you want wildlife or a mountain, and whether you want to finish on a beach. Answer those and usually one or two trips are left.

The shortest useful safari is three days. Two is a long drive for one game drive, and we will say so rather than sell it. Six to eight days is where most people land, because it buys two or three different parks without the trip becoming a series of transfers.

What the price includes, and what it does not

Every price on this page covers the same core, and when you compare us with a cheaper quote this is the list to check it against. A quote that looks low is usually a quote missing one of these.

Included as standard: a private 4x4 with a guaranteed window seat for everyone, a professional Nairobi-based driver-guide, all park and conservation fees, accommodation, meals as specified in the itinerary, drinking water in the vehicle, and airport transfers.

Not included: international flights, your Kenya eTA and the travel health insurance that became compulsory in October 2026, visas for Tanzania if your route crosses the border, travel insurance of your own, drinks, tips, and optional extras like balloon flights.

Nothing on this page is a shared minibus with a middle seat. That is the main thing a markedly cheaper price buys you, and it is worth knowing before you compare.

What moves the price

Four things, in roughly this order. Accommodation, which is most of it — the gap between a comfortable tented camp and a luxury lodge inside a conservancy is wider than the gap between any two itineraries on this page. Season, and not only through lodge rates: Maasai Mara entry is $200 per non-resident adult per day from July to December against $100 from January to June, so the same itinerary genuinely costs more in August than in February. Group size, because a private vehicle split four ways costs each person far less than the same vehicle split two ways. And whether you fly between parks or drive.

Park fees are the floor none of us can move: they are set per person per day by Kenya Wildlife Service and the conservancies, they are the single largest fixed cost of any safari here, and they are included in every price we quote.

Private or small group

Almost everything we run is private: your vehicle, your guide, your pace, your departure date. It costs more per person than a seat-in-coach tour and it is a different holiday — you stop when the light is good, you stay with the leopard, you have breakfast when you want it.

We will also build small-group departures for families travelling together or for two couples sharing. If your budget is tight, sharing a private vehicle with people you already know is the single most effective way to cut the per-person cost without giving anything up.

When to go

July to October is the classic window: dry, easy game viewing, and the Great Migration in the Maasai Mara. It is also the busiest and dearest, and the good small camps are gone six to twelve months ahead.

January and February are nearly as dry, noticeably quieter and cheaper, with the clearest Kilimanjaro views from Amboseli. April and May are the long rains — lowest prices of the year, green landscapes, superb light, muddier roads. None of these is wrong; they suit different trips, and our season guide goes through it month by month.

How booking works

Tell us your dates, rough budget and what you care about, and we send a day-by-day itinerary with a firm price — not a brochure. Revise it as often as you like; most trips go through two or three drafts before anyone pays anything.

A deposit confirms the camps and the vehicle, with the balance due before arrival. We are licensed by the Tourism Regulatory Authority and based in Nairobi, so the people planning your trip are the people who will run it.

If nothing on this page is quite right, say so. Roughly half of what we operate started as somebody asking for a version of one of these with a day added, a lodge changed or a mountain attached.