Tailor-made Kenya Safari Traveller Reviews

A brilliantly organised safari in Kenya, mixing very different but very special experiences.

Richard Trillo at Expert Africa is the kind of helpful advisor and organiser you wish every travel company could have. He seems to intuitively know the kind of places I'll enjoy staying in - which is an impressive skill - and with every detail thought out and taken care of, the whole trip works seamlessly on the ground.

We had 3 nights at Kicheche Laikipia and Kicheche Valle, and a week at Kinendo Kwetu. The organisation and recommendations were superb, and after 6 nights in the bush ca week at Diani Beach was perfect. All the transfers and flights worked seamlessly and we had a wonderful holiday.

Expert Africa. We went to Botswana with them a few years ago and we would recommend them to anybody as their kniwkedfpge , experience and organisation are unsurpassed!

A safari trip to Kenya staying 4 nights in Samburu and 5 nights in the Masai Mara. We have been on this trip many times and our experiences with Expert Africa have been invariably excellent. Great care is taken to ensure the trip is exactly what you want and any questions asked are answered very quickly and positively. The information provided is very clear. Whilst there are many good companies offering trips to Kenya we would not have any reason to use anyone other than Expert Africa.

As stated already we would have no reason to choose any other company than Expert Africa. They have always provided excellent service.

We enjoy visiting Kenya in December because it is quieter than many other times of year. Loldia House, on the shores of Lake Naivasha and part of the Governors' group - is not too far from Nairobi and was a very good place to start. A couple of nights here as the only guests ensured that we were well looked after by Heather and her staff and included a full day's trip to Lake Nakuru N.P. The food was excellent, the room comfortable and spacious. We used Governors' own airline to fly to the Maasai Mara from the Loldia strip - about forty minutes - and then stayed for four nights at Il Moran. You won't see the hundreds of thousands of wilderbeest or zebra that frequent the park during the migration, but there are residents (the ones without passports as our guide, Paul, described them!) and all the other animals that you could wish for are still present. We enjoyed long game drives, taking breakfast with us each day so as to be able to visit distant sectors of the park and had a succession of fantastic game viewings. The camp is very comfortable and, again, food and service standards are high. To recover from the early mornings we flew from the Musiara air strip to Mombasa for a few days in a beach hotel. The Serena Beach Resort does not offer an exclusive, boutique experience, but the rooms are spotless, food good and there is a lovely pool to both cool off and swim in.

Efficient, knowledgeable, helpful, trustworthy.

A Maasai Mara migration with other safari options and a week on the beach to finish off. Perfect.

The team member understood our requirements quickly and was able to book us a superb trip that suited requirements perfectly. We've travelled with EA on many occasions and will continue to do so. Can't recommend highly enough.

Richard Trillo and Expert Africa put together a superb itinerary for us and our 2 kids (age 11 and 12). The logistics worked flawlessly, and even for a very well travelled family, it was amongst our best ever holidays.

Understood what we wanted, found us places that we would never have found ourselves and ensured that everything went flawlessly. Couldn't have asked for a better service.

Expert Africa designed a custom safari, based around the Patterson experience with the "Maneaters of Tsavo" and the railway bridge he built in 1898. Also, added hunting for spitting cobras, and maneless male lions. Everything was done in the best way, with the most success.

I have gone with Expert Africa three times now. I normally use a tour operator only once, but Expert Africa has gone out of it's way to design custom safari's for me. (Another tour operator called me a nightmare, and accidentally sent me the E-mail with that statement in it. The statement is true -- I am hard to work with.)

We chose to celebrate our Fortieth Wedding Anniversary with a personalised trip to old haunts. Instead of the camping of our youth, the accommodation was a mix of five star and friendly African. Fortunately the only changes we noticed were the tribesmen carrying guns instead of spears, and the villagers living on Aid wearing European clothes and demanding money for photographs. It was fun to find we could still speak some Swahili, and to reread The Constant Gardener after visiting Oasis Lodge and actually visiting Wolfgang, mentioned in the book.

The trip was tailor-made for us, and Richard was always ready to answer our questions personally.

Given our fairly specific criteria, Expert Africa put together a varied and comprehensive package, visiting 5 venues in Kenya and Tanzania; it covered virtually all East African animals and a wide range of terrain and habitats... The camps were varied and all good, in different ways. Everything worked well including transfers, drivers and connections... As was pointed out it wasn't a standard first safari package, but as independent and experienced travellers it hit the spot... I would recommend Expert Africa for an excellent and worry free safari experience... We saw everything we hoped for and more... We visited: Nairobi National Park Laikipia Wilderness Encounter Mara Impala Camp, Salous Mwagusi Camp, Ruaha

Brillaint, helpful and always available... I would recommend Richard Trillo for his knowledge,helpfulness and enthusiasm for Africa...

Excellent Bush Camp experience and safaris in all respects, including travel arrangements.

Cannot be faulted, knowledge, service, speed of response, very pleasant.