What shapes a safari · 01
This is the core of a Kenya wildlife safari — lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, and, if your dates land between July and October, the wildebeest migration crossing the Mara River. But the animals move on their own schedule, not a printed one, and the difference between a good sighting and a great one usually comes down to who's driving.
Edward reads each park daily rather than working off a fixed route — which waterhole is holding in the dry season, where a pride was last seen, which stretch of river the herds are massing near before a crossing. None of that comes from a app or a briefing sheet. It comes from twenty years of actually being out there.
"People think wildlife safaris are about luck. Some of it is. But most of what looks like luck is just knowing where to be at six in the morning instead of nine."
Not a fixed package — a set of things Edward can build into any itinerary, depending on your dates and what you want most.
If a route isn't producing, it changes — the itinerary is a guide, not a contract
Early starts and off-peak timing over sitting in a line of vehicles at a sighting
No overselling what a particular week is likely to produce
Tell David when you're thinking of travelling and how many of you there are — he'll reply personally, usually within a day.