Safari and Expedition
Luxury safari travel, planned around the camps worth the flight.
Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, and South Africa, plus the Galápagos and Antarctica on the expedition side. The camp decides the trip, so I start there.
How I plan safaris
The camp is the trip.
On safari, the room and the guide are the whole experience. Two camps can sit twenty minutes apart in the same ecosystem and deliver completely different weeks, one with a private concession where you drive off-road and stay out after dark, and one on a public road where you'll queue six vehicles deep at a leopard sighting. I know which is which, and I match the camp to the month, the travelers, and the budget.
The logistics are the part people underestimate. Light aircraft with twenty kilogram limits, camps that move with the water, borders, tips, and the international timing that makes or breaks day one. I handle all of it, so the complicated parts are mine and the morning coffee looking at the Mara is yours.
Trip shapes
Three ways these trips usually go.
The Migration circuit, ten days
One night in Nairobi to land soft, then fly into the Mara for four nights at a camp on a private concession, where you're allowed off-road and out at dawn. Then the Serengeti side, or the Ngorongoro highlands, for the calving. July through October, and the top camps go on sale a year out, so I book them the day the calendar opens.
Botswana and Cape Town, twelve days
Two camps in the Okavango Delta, one in the Linyanti, all reached by light aircraft with strict weight limits I've planned your bags around. A night at Victoria Falls if you want it. Then Cape Town for four days, the Winelands, and dinner reservations that don't depend on a concierge's cousin.
The expedition side
The Galápagos on a small ship with naturalist guides, fifteen guests instead of ninety. Antarctica on a fly-cruise that skips the Drake Passage both ways. I match the ship, the cabin, and the departure date, and I know which operators actually deliver the expedition they advertise.
Start here
Every safari starts with a consult.
We'll spend twenty minutes on who's going, what you want to see, and how rough you're willing to go before the luxury matters. Then I'll come back with camps, dates, and a number that's real.
Questions I get asked