For over 26 years, we have been working hard to find excellent wildlife habitat without large visitor numbers, and our guests understand the value of this, too. We find that private conservancies and concessions offer excellent wildlife viewing in peaceful surroundings with expert guides, and the wildlife is given the ... Read more

At the start of this year, our Managing Director, Alice, and Alex headed to Kenya to master a new skill. Read on for Alex's account of those wobbly, wind-swept days on Diani Beach.  Learning to Kite Surf in my older years: My Adventure at Diani Beach, Kenya At 60+, there's ... Read more

The Great Wildebeest Migration is one of Africa’s most iconic wildlife events, one of the greatest feats of endurance in the natural world. However, let’s not forget the lesser-known migrations from the fabulously flamboyant carmine bee-eaters to the colossal southern right whale. Africa’s animal migrations, the big and the small, ... Read more

Spotting wild dog on safari is a real treat. One minute you’re sitting, eyes fixed on the vast open plains, and the next, a pack of a dozen or so wild dogs is streaming past at full pace, ears pricked, tails high, chattering to each other as they close in ... Read more

Elephants are afraid of bees. That single fact, confirmed by field research, is now the basis of a low-cost defence protecting crops and livelihoods across Kenya.  The discovery came from Save the Elephants, the Nairobi-based research and conservation organisation founded in 1993 by the zoologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, in research conducted ... Read more

Kenya’s incredible Masai Mara is world renowned for its dense wildlife population and the beauty of its iconic ‘Out of Africa’ landscapes. With wide open rolling plains dotted with acacias and desert date (or balanites) trees, patches of dense riverine forests, stands of olive trees on hillsides and thickets of ... Read more

On a quiet stretch of Kizingoni Beach, on Kenya's Lamu Island, The Cabanas is a story of family and reinvention. Continuing the vision of her late mother, Leslie Duckworth, who designed and built the original Kizingoni Villas.  Anna and her husband Shawn have blended Hawaiian "Aloha" with Swahili "Karibu" hospitality, ... Read more

If you can ride and you're looking for your next adventure, a mobile riding safari in Africa should be at the top of your list. The choice can feel overwhelming, and finding the right ride through your own research isn't easy. That's where we come in. Once we know a ... Read more

I’ve always been drawn to the world from above. As a child, I remember hiking mountains, following cliff paths and loving school and Brownie PGL adventure trips. I suppose my head for heights began there. At university, I spent my summers as a high ropes instructor, swinging through the trees ... Read more

Older than the dinosaurs. Tougher than an asteroid. Built to cross entire oceans on nothing but instinct and the Earth's magnetic field. Sea turtles are, by any measure, extraordinary reptiles and five of the world's seven species call the coastlines of Africa and the Indian Ocean home. Meet the ancient ... Read more