The Cottar family are arguably the oldest name operating in the safari business in Africa today, with our forbearers having arrived from the USA in 1909. Initially the family focused on hunting safaris, evolving into photographic and filming trips by the 1930`s. Many safari concepts taken for granted today were pioneered by the Cottars, including the concept of the permanent luxury tented camp, wildlife photography, many safari equipment designs and safari vehicles. (mug shots of Chas, Mike, Bud, Glen, Calvin). Today this legacy continues with Calvin and family.

Drawing on more than eighty years of organizing and equipping safaris, the Cottar family will provide clients with the highest standard of personalized and professional guiding. Tailor made itineraries ensure that every safari provides a unique experience for our clients. Recalling an era of luxury and quality, Cottar's 1920's Safari Camp in the Maasai Mara continues to this day in the original spirit of the legendary safaris of that golden age offering a journey of romance, adventure and elegance in the hands of highly professional guides. All safaris take place in a timelessly unspoiled setting with views stretching to distant horizons and the plains covered in boundless game free to roam at their will across the rivers and plains of the three great East African reserves. There are no fences to contain them and no national boundaries hinder their movements during the annual migrations.

The cottars have for the last 30 years focused on a very special part of Africa in the country of Kenya in a unique wilderness area that is adjascent to the Serengeti National Park of Tanzania and the Maasai Mara National Reserve of Kenya. This area is home to the largest concentration of terrestrial wildlife on earth - the immense wildebeast, Zebra and plains game migration that numbers over to 2.5 million animals. The landscape is rolling savannah of high altitude (6000ft), with no fences or man made structures, and with pure wildlife that has not been trans located or manipulated by man; we have one of the highest success rates of big five sightings in Kenya although our focus is never on trying to see more species or checking off a list of species.