Tailor-made Kenya Safari Traveller Reviews

At our request, ExpertAfrica organized a personalized trip to Kenya for three of us (parents and a grown child), within our budgetary constraints. We visited three camps, each offering a view of different aspects of safaris in Kenya. El Karama Eco-Lodge offered an interesting link between historic cattle ranching and a low key impact on life in Kenya. The Mara Ngenche Safari Camp took us into a dense, thickly-forested riverine forest. We were quite isolated until we emerged into the savannas to find wildebeest (etc) and the ever-present lions--and the flocks of tourists in their many vehicles, including buses. Quite a contrast with the El Karama area. Our third stop was the elegant Tortilis Camp with huge herds of elephants. An interesting extra event here was a most interesting visit to a Maasai village.

Richard Trillo from ExpertAfrica did a wonderful job, integrating our desires for a trip to Kenya and a modest budget. It wasn't "cheap" but nevertsheless "modest". Richard listened carefully, heard what we wanted, and organized everything: flights, pickups, camp reservations. In fact, down to the last detail. And everything worked out! We were immensely pleased with ExpertAfrica and would highly recommend them for safaris.

We wanted to see lots of wildlife and we were not disappointed. We stayed at two wonderful camps in the Mara with gold eco awards. We had the most amazing wildlife viewing with great abundance and diversity of animals. The knowledge and experience of our guides meant they could anticipate the animals behaviour so we had the privilege of watching them coming towards us. We therefore got very close views. They also understood the importance of lighting and positioning for photographs. We have been on many wildlife trips but this was our best.

We have travelled with Expert Africa on a number of occasions to different countries within Africa and have always had a fantastic holiday. The fact that they are a small operator covering just a small number of countries means they have extensive knowledge and personal experience of the places we want to visit. They are all passionate about Africa and it is great to be able to speak to someone who has been to the region regularly and visited the areas and camps we are considering. Our recent trip was to Kenya and the person who organised the trip for us is the author of the Rough Guide to Kenya. You really can't get someone who has more experience than that can you?

What a spactacular experience. Eleven days on safari, four camps, amazing wildlfe and the great migration to boot. Our trip was everything we had hoped for and more. And everything came together like clockwork.

From the very start it was clear our contact at Expert Africa knew what he was taliking about. Enthusiastic, knowledgeable and experienced, I'd recommend Richard Trillo at Expert Africa to anyone considering a trip to Kenya.

We stayed in the Kicheche Bush Camp and Kicheche Mara. Both are excellent Bush Camps in the Masai Mara. Our stay at both camps, overnight accommodation in Nairobi, internal transfers and flights were arranged by Expert Africa. Everything worked like clockwork.

Hugely knowledgeable and real experts on Africa.

Expert Africa helped us to organise the trip of a lifetime for our honeymoon. Laikipia and the Maasai Mara National Parks in Kenya were sublime; and Zanzibar provided the R&R we needed after 8 days on safari. We absolutely loved it!

Excellent, professional, bespoke and friendly service from people who genuinely know and love Africa.

A weeks safari to Kenya, very well organised, very good choice of camps

Expert Africa listened to what type of safari I wanted, and came up with an excellent choice of camps. Would use them again

We have just returned from a two week, four centre, holiday which was arranged for us by Richard Trillo of Expert Africa. The holiday was outstanding in every respect. We had met with Richard to discuss what we wanted and he tailored the holiday to perfectly fit our desires.We were most impressed with teh camps he chose for us and the attention to detail, right down to having our own personal driver for our last day in Nairobi, recommendation of restaurant for lunch, etc. Every details had been thought through and worked seamlessly. If we go on safari again we would always come to Expert Africa.

Our tour operator's knowledge of Kenya is comprehensive and with the choice of so many camps we could have chosen to stay in, he guided absolutely to the right choices but left the final selection to us.

After listening to what I wanted Expert Africa put together all the separate elements (hotels, bush-camps, transfers, flights, etc) of my trip into a seamless wonderful experience. I stayed in 4 different places with varying degrees of luxury but the main purpose of my trip - wildlife viewing on safari - was exactly what I had hoped for. Knowledgeable guides helping me understand animal behaviours.

I've travelled with Expert Africa a few times before so they know my preferences and where I've been before. They still took the time to discuss with me what I wanted from my recent trip and then gave me a number of options that I could look at on their extensive website. This made it easy for me to choose. Once the bare bones were in place, the agents local knowledge was invaluable. He was able to make a number of very helpful suggestions such as places to eat close to the airport on the evening of my return home.

All the arrangements made by Expert Africa worked well, our accommodation was first class, food excellent and the guides for our wildlife experience were outstanding.

Expert Africa staff are just that - experts! The Rough Guide to Kenya was written by our expert, Richard Trillo. We have travelled with this company twice before and would not hesitate to return.

Our trip was to 3 different camps in Kenya. (Offbeat Meru in Meru, Kicheche Laikipia in Ol Pejeta and Kicheche Bush in Olare Motorogi. We were very happy with each of the camps, food was excellent (as non-meat eaters we were very well catered for), guiding and wildlife viewing was excellent. All arrangements worked very smoohly. We had a wonderful trip.

The tour operator was very careful to listen to our requirementsand was very keen to find out what we wanted from the trip. They were very knowledgeable, having visited the camps themselves. Advice was very good. It is the second time we have used Expert Africa, and we will use them again.