Your own vehicle, your own guide, your own pace
Nearly every safari in this catalogue is private by default: your own vehicle, your own driver-guide, and a route that starts and stops when you decide rather than when a group schedule dictates. It is worth stating plainly, because the difference in how a day feels is considerable.
On a private safari you decide when to leave in the morning, how long to stay at a sighting, when to stop for lunch and whether to go back for a second look at something. On a group departure, all of those are compromises. For photographers, families with young children and anyone who tires at a different rate from strangers, that control is the whole value.
The catalogue does include one explicit group-joining route — the twelve-day Group Joining Kenya and Tanzania budget itinerary — where sharing the vehicle is what makes the price work. Everything else is quoted as a private journey unless you ask otherwise.
Private does not have to mean expensive. A private vehicle across four travellers costs little more per head than a seat on a group departure, and the cost falls further as the group grows. We quote both so you can see the actual difference rather than assume it.
From the catalogue
Every one of these is a full route with a written day-by-day itinerary, not a template.
Any route in the catalogue can be re-paced, re-tiered or rebuilt around what matters to you. Tell us what that is.
