Cottars 1920's Camp is the longest established safari outfitting company in Africa registered in British East Africa in the year 1919 by Chas Cottar and operated by him and his sons, Bud, Mike and Ted during the 20's, 30's and 40's. By Mike's son Glen and his wife Pat in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's and now by Glen's son Calvin and his wife Louise, as joint owners in the 90's and 2000's.

Cottars Safari Service is a family business that has depended for the last 80 years on providing clients real value for the money and real adventure, descriptions of which we are in many of the classic and contempory books. We are not in the Safari business - it is our way to continue living in the land we love and our preferred way of life.

Since Chas Cottar's days, the quality of safaris in Kenya has generally deteriorated as operators sacrificed adventure for convenience, safaris have become over-itinerized, limited to congested big name parks and having no room for the flexibility that always was the vital essence of the original safari. Calvin and Louise work hard to keep the vital essence of safaris alive, and we evoke the light, the smells, and the unchanging atmosphere of Africa of the 1920s' the heyday of the early explorers.