Award Winning Camp
  • Tatler Guide to Guides - John Warburton-Lee
  • Travel.Telegraph - Brian Jackman
  • Conde Nast Traveler - Best of the World - Top 100 (November 2002) - pdf
  • Best Tented Camp in the World - Tatler
  • Best Tented Camp in the World - Harpers and Queen
  • Best SME for Tourism in Africa
  • Best Guides - Travel and Leisure
Published
  • Safari: A chronicle of Adventure, Bartle Bull
  • Safari to the Soul, Dennis Waitley
  • White Hunter, Brian Herne
  • Licensed to Guide, Suzie Cazenove
  • End of the Game, Peter Beard
  • Men for all seasons, Antony Dyer
  • The Exception was the rule: The memoirs of Charles Cottar
  • Trophy room
What the Press Say

Vogue - June 2007

Vogue - June 2007 The Chronicles of Keira
On a much-needed spring break, Keira Knightley hops the green hills of Africa in fittingly romantic, feminie looks. Plum Sykes catches up with the puckish adventuress. Photographed by Arthur Elgort.
"Well, there you go. I've done my homework!" says actress Keira Knightley, handing over a leather-bound Louis Vuitton journal. Inside are pages and pages of immaculate, copperplate handwritting. Keira has taken her recent Vogue assignement - writing a diary of her escape to Africa - very seriously...

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Outlook Traveller - June 2007

Traveller - June 2007 Animal Pleasure
Amita Baviskar savours the wildlife and the good life of Masai Mara. Photographes by Sanjoy Ghosh.
There is a memorable scene in Out of Africa, Karen Blixen's account of life in early 20th centry Kenya. Having just shot a charging lion, Blixen and her lover Denys Finch Hatton go back to camp to drink wine. We are no less dramatic but a lot less lethal. Having just watched a pride of seven lions and five cubs gnaw away at a young giraffe that they had killed, we lean back and sip red wine, feast on roasted cashews and hot crisp bhajiyas fried over a roaring fire, even as the evening sky flames orange...

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Architectural Digest - March 2003

Architectural Digest - March 2003 Cottars 1920 Safari Camps - Evoking the Golden Age Of the East African Adventure
Text and photography by Tim Beddow.
Evoking the Golden Age of the East African Adventure It's no east task these days to experience an authentic African safari-one with the privacy, splendor and elegance of former times. Too often, lodges are soulless places where the safari consists of game drives in overcrowded minibuses. One very special place, however, aims to give its visitors a unique encounter with Africa. Cottars 1920s Safari Camp, located on a 200,000-acre private concession at the edge of Kenya's Masai Mara Reserve, harmoniously fuses the elements that make for a stylish, comfortable, one-of-a-kind safari adventure....
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Conde Nast Traveler - Best of the World - Top 100 - November 2002

Conde Nast Traveler - Best of the World - Top 100 - November 2002 Into the Bush with the Best - Lisa Limer
Calvin Cottar and John Stevens know something about elephant behavior. They have lived in the bush most of their lives and have developed such a profound understanding of the wild animals and their habits that if academic accolades were awarded for bush craft, they would have doctorates bestowed on them. If you ask Africa hands to name the best guides, Cottar and Stevens appear at the top of every list...

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Travel and Leisure - August 2001

Travel and Leisure - August 2001 Follow The Leaders
Text by David Herdon. Photographed by Curt Markus.
Calvin Cottar is chosen as one of the top five of a new generation of safari guides in Africa:- The Cottar clan is referred to in the book (White Hunters) as The First Family of the safari business. If you want to track bloodline, you go to Cottar's. Today, Cottars camp is situated on the lower slopes of a heavily forested hillside, overlooking the green-blond Masai Mara plains and Tanzania's Serengeti beyond. It's such a classic vista that you expect the title of Out of Africa to roll across it...

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London Financial Times - Lucia Van Der Post

"for those who find themselves hooked on Africa, there comes a time when they want something different, something lonelier and wilder...Not every guide can take you there. Some do not have the taste for it and some do not have the know-how, but Calvin Cottar and his 1920's safaris come with the kind of pedigree and promise and promise that is hard to resist"

The Tatler Cunard Travel Guide - Alexander de Cadenet

"Nobody knows the bush better or can guide you more safely. Not only were we able to see places of astonishing beauty to which more regular safari outfits never go, but Calvin was able to educate us by sharing his unprecedented knowledge of animal behavior."

Tatler Guide to Guides - John Warburton-Lee

voted Calvin Cottar the best guide in Kenya and said: "Scion of one of the oldest guiding families, Cottar is straight out of White Mischief".

Travel.Telegraph - Brian Jackman

Have visitors crowded out animals in Africa's game parks? Not yet. Brian Jackman finds unexpected tranquillity in Kenya.

Vogue (UK) - Tim Beddow

"Although there are a few luxury safari outfits, this is easily the most atmospheric. It harks back to the era of hunters such as Denis Finch-Hatton, when safaris were undertaken in grand style".

Bloomburg Magazine - John Frederick Walker

"Over the years, Cottar`s has guided royalty, sports figures, assorted tycoons, and scores of more down-to-earth type on safaris completely tailored to meet their needs and desires. This ecologically correct adventure re-creates all the glamour and style of a classic safari".