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Safari
Private wildlife journeys with expert guides, from the Maasai Mara to the Serengeti plains, gorilla trekking to Big Five encounters. Every safari is shaped around your pace, interests and comfort.
Tailor-made safaris, trusted local expertise and thoughtful details from the first idea to the journey home.
Tailor-made African Safaris
Shishi Footsteps is a curated travel design company specializing in premium, tailor-made safaris across East Africa. Rather than selling fixed packages, we build every itinerary from scratch based on your interests, pace, comfort level, and travel goals.
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Private wildlife journeys with expert guides, from the Maasai Mara to the Serengeti plains, gorilla trekking to Big Five encounters. Every safari is shaped around your pace, interests and comfort.
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Beautiful lodges, private decks, considered service, wellness retreats and comfort after every wild day in Africa's finest destinations. We select stays for location, guiding, atmosphere and how they make you feel.
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Respectful local encounters, community visits and cultural experiences that make the journey richer than wildlife alone. These moments add meaning to every African safari.
Destinations
Big cat country, private conservancies, dramatic migration crossings and warm coastal endings.
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Serengeti plains, Ngorongoro drama and wild southern parks made for unrushed safaris.
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Gorilla trekking, chimpanzee forests, lake country and deeply moving wildlife encounters.
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Gorilla trekking, rolling hills, golden monkeys and intimate luxury lodges with volcano views.
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Private reserves, refined lodges, wine country and effortless family-friendly safari routes.
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Desert-adapted wildlife, sculptural dunes and remote lodges beneath huge star-filled skies.
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Okavango waterways, mobile camps, elephant-rich landscapes and pristine wilderness.
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Each idea is a starting point, not a package. We only offer what the country, the season and our partners can honestly deliver.
Kenya conservancies and private guiding — predators, space and days that are not a checklist.
Explore Kenya
Tanzania’s Serengeti calendar, crater mornings and camps placed for the herds — never a promised crossing.
Explore Tanzania
Uganda’s Bwindi forests, permits handled quietly, one carefully timed hour with a habituated family.
Explore Uganda
Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park, golden monkeys, Kigali and highland golf when they earn their place.
Explore Rwanda
South Africa’s Sabi Sand guiding, Cape Town light, Winelands tables and championship golf when they belong in the week.
Explore South Africa
Namibia’s Sossusvlei dunes, Etosha pans and remote lodges under huge night skies.
Explore Namibia
Botswana’s Okavango channels, Chobe elephants, mokoro time and quiet luxury camps.
Explore Botswana
Luxury Accommodation
A carefully selected Maasai Mara safari stay with warm service and a strong sense of place.
Kenya / Maasai Mara View DetailsExperiences
Photograph giant elephants beneath the snows of Kilimanjaro.
Explore the lively heart of Arusha, the safari capital of Tanzania.
Drive the Cape Peninsula from ChapmanΓÇÖs Peak to Cape Point.
Explore the Chobe River on a private boat safari through one of Africas most wildlife-rich waterways. Chobe National Park has the largest concentration of elephants on the continent, and the riverfront offers spectacular sightings of large herds bathing and drinking. Your experienced captain-naturalist navigates the channel where wildlife is most concentrated. Hippo pods surface alongside the boat as elephant families wade through the shallows. The birdlife is exceptional with African skimmers, carmine bee-eaters, and fish eagles. Morning and sunset departures are available. Each boat is private to your group with shaded seating and refreshments.
Step into the heart of Maasai culture with a respectful community-based visit that offers genuine connection. Your Maasai guide escorts you through the manyatta, explaining the social structure, ceremonies, and daily life of one of Africas most recognised indigenous communities. Learn how a manyatta is constructed, watch women demonstrate traditional beadwork, and hear from young warriors about their role in protecting the community. Participate in a traditional jumping dance and try your hand at fire-making. A portion of the visit fee goes directly to community projects including the local school and water initiatives. Allow 2-3 hours for the village visit.
Snorkel the coral gardens and sandbanks off Diani Beach.
Featured Safaris
A private Kenya journey with thoughtful pacing, excellent guiding and handpicked stays.
A private Tanzania journey with thoughtful pacing, excellent guiding and handpicked stays.
A private Botswana journey with thoughtful pacing, excellent guiding and handpicked stays.
Why Shishi Footsteps
We design from Nairobi with people we trust on the ground. Routes, lodges and guiding are chosen for season, temperament and the way you actually like to travel.
Our storyPermits, tee sheets, conservancy access and last-minute lodge changes are handled by people who know the roads, not a remote call centre.
We leave honest flying days and quiet afternoons. Luxury, for us, is the itinerary still having a pulse on day eight.
We favour camps and conservancies that employ locally, protect habitat and treat wildlife as more than a backdrop.
African Golf Holidays
From a focused championship week to a multi-country golf circuit, we arrange tee times, caddies, club hire, private transfers and course-friendly stays around the way you want to play.
From the field
The Mara conservancy stay changed the whole trip. Private guiding, no crowding, and evenings that felt considered rather than scheduled. Shishi Footsteps wrote the days around us, not a brochure.
Amelia & James Hart United Kingdom · Nine-night Kenya conservancy safari
They timed the Serengeti camp to the herds, then gave us Ngorongoro as a single, early crater morning — not a checklist. The migration felt like weather: present, moving, never promised on a given hour.
Sophie Laurent France · Tanzania migration safari
The Delta was water, light and a camp that felt private without being precious. Mokoro time was slow in the way you hope Africa will be, and never is when the days are overpacked.
Charlotte & Ben Walsh New Zealand · Okavango private concession
Journal
Jul 21, 2026
A complete guide to planning a luxury safari in East Africa — when to go, where to stay and how to choose the right destinations.
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Jul 23, 2026
A sensory journey through Kenya — from the Maasai Mara to the Rift Valley, captured through moments that stay with you.
Read moreResponsible Travel
We favour partners who invest in local employment, fair opportunity and meaningful community programs across East and Southern Africa.
Safari choices can protect habitat, fund rangers and keep wildlife corridors alive for the future. We support conservation-conscious travel.
We prioritise thoughtful routing, lower-impact stays and operators who take sustainability seriously across every journey we design.
Your Private Safari
Tell us your preferences and our specialists will shape a tailor-made itinerary with the right destinations, pace, guides and lodges — built from scratch around you.
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