Luxury Masai Mara Safari & Zanzibar Honeymoon

Planet

We want our customers to enjoy an experience led holiday within a natural environment. To do this we use partners and suppliers who are guardians of their surroundings. This means that they look after the local environment they are responsible for, as well as encouraging employment, and revenue generation, for the local population.

While in Nairobi, trips to the Giraffe Centre and Elephant Sanctuary directly contribute to the protection of the endangered Rothschild's Giraffe and to the rehabilitation of orphaned elephants from across Kenya.

In the Mara, Kichwa Tembo uses a solar heating system and through bottling their own water they save over 56,000 plastic bottles annually. They are also planting over 20,000 trees in the local Masai Mara community to restore depleted forest sections. All food here is locally sourced reducing food miles and ensuring it is organic.

In Zanzibar, White Sands Villas supports trips to local conservation areas to ensure the protection of the marine systems as well as local biodiversity such as red colobus monkeys. Food is all locally sourced with the fish coming direct from the ocean having been caught in a sustainable manner.

On this trip you will be encouraged to bring and use reusable water bottles that can be used throughout your journey. We strive to help our customers minimise their use of single-use plastic wherever they travel in the world.

The use of National Parks within our itineraries is widespread, with all park fees going directly to the local authorities responsible for maintaining and protecting the and flora and fauna within the parks.

People

We align ourselves with partners who actively work with local communities, whether this means that they are employing the local population, involved in conservation efforts within the community, or educating the local population with an aim to encourage them to look after their environment.

In Kichwa Tembo, &Beyond and its foundation work to provide food parcels for those at need in the local area, but the main focus is on implementing the local culture into your stay with local employees, and the opportunity to support local sales people and learn from their culture and provide them with a steady income. The guides are predominantly from the local community, allowing them to contribute and offer further insights.

Both Karen Residence and Zanzibar White Sands employ local people and pride themselves on supporting locals with employment opportunities. In Zanzibar, local fisherman are used to catch the fresh catch providing them with a market for their catch.

Pre-travel all of our customers are presented with what we call a ‘travel pack’. Within this travel pack our customers receive all the detail about their trip. The detail includes useful information on the destinations they are travelling to, including, but not limited to, the social and political situations within the destination. We also give guidelines on what to pack to try and minimise the amount of luggage our customers take resulting in lower fuel usage on planes and other vehicles.