Sharing our stories
Every journey is an adventure in its own right, filled with vibrant colour, thrilling encounters and wonderful experiences. Every destination across East Africa is filled with tales begging to be told, brimming with fascinating information and insight. Here's where we curate the things that make Anderson & Harvey safaris so special, distilling them into engaging stories worthy of sharing with your clients. Enjoy!
The Serengeti is often defined by the Great Migration, but a well-crafted safari reveals that this vast ecosystem has so much more to offer. From rolling grasslands and rocky kopjes to riverine forests and wetlands, the Serengeti supports year-round wildlife activity, creating opportunities for memorable encounters.
There is a moment every good safari itinerary should deliver. That quiet click, when everything suddenly makes sense. Flights line up. Landscapes flow. Wildlife encounters feel earned rather than staged. For all of us, this moment does not happen by accident.
The sight of a black rhinoceros moving silently through the bush is among the rarest and most thrilling moments on any East African safari. Once widespread across the region’s great plains, forests and highlands, both black and white rhinos suffered catastrophic declines in the 20th century due to relentless poaching.
The Serengeti-Mara ecosystem stands as one of the most iconic wildlife landscapes in the world, a sprawling expanse of savannah, riverine forest and kopjes that has shaped our understanding of Africa’s great predators.
Few animals embody the spirit of Africa’s wild places quite like the painted wolf (Lycaon pictus) also known as the African wild dog. Their mottled coats of black, brown, white and yellow create a living mosaic that is as unique as each individual.
East Africa is famously associated with sweeping savannahs and spectacular wildlife migrations. Yet its landscape is also defined by a remarkable constellation of lakes, each a vital ecosystem offering unique wildlife.
East Africa’s highlands are home to some of the continent’s most enchanting and least explored ecosystems: the Afro-montane forests. These dense, mist-shrouded landscapes stretch across Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, offering a world apart from the savanna plains below.
If there is a single creature that embodies the spirit of East Africa’s wilderness, it is the elephant. Towering, intelligent and ancient, elephants shape the landscape they inhabit as surely as rain or fire. And nowhere is this quiet influence more profoundly felt than in Kenya's Chyulu Hills and Amboseli ecosystems.
For many travellers to East Africa, the image of the Maasai warrior is as enduring as that of the wildebeest crossing the Mara River or the elephants roaming the Serengeti plains. The bright shúkà cloth, the beaded adornments, the slender frame of a herdsman striding the landscape.
The phrase "East Africa" often conjures images of lions stalking the Serengeti, elephants crossing the Masai Mara, and leopards lounging in acacia shade. The Big Five remain the iconic drawcard for travellers – and rightly so – but the wild heart of East Africa offers far more than these familiar faces.
