The Migration, Entirely Private
Four nights camped near the Mara River at crossing season, with your own guide and vehicle and no fixed hour to turn back.
Guide price $28,500 per person
Private journeys across Africa · Since 2011
Africa, entirely your own.
Private safaris and expeditions in six countries we know first-hand, planned around the moments you want to remember rather than a fixed itinerary.
2011
Planning private African journeys from London
6
Countries we know on the ground, camp by camp
1
Planner from your first call to your flight home
24h
Direct line answered while you travel
Our approach
A safari should feel like yours, not a version of everyone else's.
Every journey starts with a conversation about how you like to travel: early starts or slow mornings, walking or watching, a camp of twelve tents or a house of your own. From there we build a route that fits, choosing guides and camps we have stayed in ourselves.
The result is quieter than a package safari and more personal. Your vehicle waits when the light is good, your camp knows how you take your coffee, and if the herds move, your plans move with them.
Signature journeys
Six starting points, each one yours to reshape.
Gorillas Beyond the Mist
Two gorilla treks in the Virunga volcanoes, golden monkeys in the bamboo, and a final stretch of savannah in Akagera.
Guide price $19,800 per person
Botswana by Sky & Water
Light aircraft link three exclusive-use camps: the Okavango by mokoro, the Linyanti's elephant river and the white silence of the salt pans.
Guide price $31,200 per person
Desert Silence & Skeleton Coast
Fly with your own pilot-guide from the red dunes of Sossusvlei to desert elephants in Damaraland and the fog-bound Skeleton Coast.
Guide price $26,900 per person
Zambia, Wild and Unscripted
Walking safaris in South Luangwa, a fly camp under the stars, canoes on the Lower Zambezi and a last day at Victoria Falls.
Guide price $22,400 per person
Bush to Indian Ocean
Elephants beneath Kilimanjaro, horseback mornings in Laikipia, a private Mara conservancy, then slow days on the Lamu archipelago.
Guide price $24,600 per person
How it works
From first call to first sundowner.
01
A conversation
A relaxed call with a specialist about where, when and how you like to travel. No forms to fill in first.
02
A written proposal
Within five working days: a route map, a day-by-day plan, photographs of each camp and every price.
03
Refined together
We adjust until it feels right, holding the camps for you while you decide.
04
Travel, looked after
Your planner stays with you throughout, with a direct line answered day and night.
Private services
The details that make the difference.
Charter flights instead of long road transfers. A whole camp for your family. A guide who has spent twenty years tracking leopard in one valley. These are the things we arrange every week, and the reason our guests come back.
- Private aviation and helicopter transfers
- Exclusive-use camps and private houses
- Specialist guides chosen for your interests
- One planner and a 24-hour line
From our guests
What travellers carried home.
Our guide knew when to wait, when to move and when to switch the engine off and say nothing. On the third morning the herds crossed right in front of us, and there was no one else there.
Three generations, one camp, and nobody felt they were compromising. My father still talks about the mokoro; my daughters talk about the meerkats.
The scale of Namibia was hard to take in, but it was the small things I remember: the pilot pointing out oryx from the cockpit, a picnic in a dry riverbed, the silence at night.
When to go
Where to be, month by month.
The migration moves, the rains come and go, and each country has its moment. Our month-by-month guide shows the best time for each destination, and when the quieter months are worth it.
Read the seasonal guide
Your Africa begins here
Tell us what moves you.
Share a few details and a specialist will come back within one working day with first ideas for a journey that is unmistakably yours.