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A safari vehicle heading into the savannah at sunset

Private safaris in Tanzania, run by the people who guide them

The savannahis our home.

We are Maasai and we have spent twenty years reading the Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire and Manyara. No agency in between: you talk to the person who drives.

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20

years guiding safaris

5

destinations on the northern circuit

50%

cheaper than booking through an agency

100%

organised on the ground, by us

A visit to a Maasai village in northern Tanzania
Who takes you

We were born Maasai. We have spent twenty years reading the savannah.

We grew up in a Maasai community in northern Tanzania, learned English, then Spanish, and started guiding safaris. Two decades crossing the Serengeti, the crater and the baobabs of Tarangire.

We are not an American company or a European middleman. We are from here, and we are the ones who take you out.

Where

The northern circuit and Zanzibar

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Filmed there

A whole pride, ten metres away

This is not stock footage or a bought clip. It was filmed from our own vehicle on a real safari: lionesses with their cubs suckling and playing, unbothered, a few metres away. This is what you see when you know where to go.

Gallery

Photographs from our safaris

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Why us

Four differences you notice from day one

A Maasai guide, not a middleman
The person driving the vehicle was born Maasai in northern Tanzania and has spent twenty years working these parks. Finding animals is not luck: it is knowing which tree each pride sleeps in and what time they come down to drink.
You talk to the person who drives
From the first email to the last day of safari. No call centre, no chain of messages between offices, and nobody relaying your questions to someone else.
No agency commission
We are the local operator, not a reseller. Agencies in Europe and North America subcontract companies like ours and add their margin on top: here that step does not exist.
Always a private vehicle
The vehicle is yours alone. You leave when you want, stop as often as you need and stay with the leopard until it comes down from the tree.

Shall we build your safari?

Tell us how many of you there are, how many days you have and roughly when. We come back with a proposal and a fixed price, no obligation.