Private Gorilla Safari
A true explorer's adventure, for a truly unique safari: Coming face-to-face with Silverback Gorillas and witnessing the Great Migration at its epic crosspoint on Mara River. The original destination for African explorations and the birthplace of the luxury safari: East Africa’s Great Rift Valley has been documented far and wide for its species diversity and spectacular topography. Yet, so many of the true gems of safari life remain secret and off-the-beaten path, even in the most iconic and well-known reserves, offering a glimpse of an old-world, untampered Africa. Guided Safaris® specialized locations are the private hideaways of the Mara ecosystem and Virungas rainforest, by-passing the tourist-laden parks for a far more intimate journey.
Guided Safaris® Signature Collection An enriching journey offering a spiritually significant encounter with vast, unexplored landscapes in East Africa's most iconic locations. Guided Safaris® bring you up close with Gorillas in Rwanda and afterwards, on the trail of Big Cats in the Mara.
Iconic, unspoiled wilderness
Here is the Real Africa. This enriching journey through East Africa is designed for Wildlife Photography and Anthropology enthusiasts seeking a spiritually-significant encounter with vast, unexplored landscapes and real interactions with the indigenous cultures who are its true wilderness custodians. Throughout your journey, you’ll witness the most iconic Africa, in the most private and special settings. And you’ll learn its tales told by rainforest dwellers and Maasai tribespeople you’ll meet with us on safari.
Cradle of Mankind
Journey across East Africa's Great Rift Valley: The Cradle of Mankind, where man first took step and home to some of the deepest lakes on earth. The Albertine Rift, bordered by some of the highest mountains in Africa, including the Virunga Mountains are where the Great Apes still roam, carrying 98% of our DNA.
Your private journey
So, just how exclusive will your journey be? Far from the crowds, only millions of animals around you. We’re right along the path of the Great Migration - and the Mara River crossings. Embark on a Guided Safaris® privately hosted luxury journey with a Specialist professional guide and custom-designed 4x4 cruiser while in our care in East Africa. Guided Safaris® camps are luxurious and your safari is led by Africa’s most respected team of highly-rated guides to personally host your game drives for the best suited plans to your interests, whether photography, specialized species or geological interest.
Wake up to views of the mystical Virungas: a place of fire and ice, framed outside your private balcony at the finest luxury safari lodge in Rwanda with a dramatic rainforest location. Later in the Mara, with 100,000-acres of exclusive wilderness and a beautiful luxury camp to come home to: This is the ultimate safari.
Trek the serene cloud forests in search of the 12 habituated Gorilla families this side of the Virungas. The Virunga Mountains are a chain of volcanoes in East Africa, along the northern border of Rwanda. Here, our journey winds its way to the scenic Albertine Rift, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas, home to critically endangered Mountain Gorillas and Golden monkeys. The Volcanoes National Park with its beautiful bamboo and fern forests is the finest place to track habituated families of Gorillas and spend time with these Great Apes, watching them at play with their young.
Africa’s oldest wilderness; a rainforest like no other.
Derived from age-old know-how, our journeys to Africa are tailored by your imagination. The dream becomes the enchantment of a moment, the joy of a journey, a companion for life.
We’re here to inspire you to dream up your own safari story.