For 30 years we have been searching out the wildest, most remote regions of East Africa, places that can only be travelled by foot: the way Africa was first explored by 19th century adventurers. We’ve improved upon the style of these early pioneers, (our comfort level is a world away from their experience), but we haven’t compromised the basic concept: to remove ourselves from the modern world, and travel lightly across country unmarked by roads, overcoming the challenges of landscape.

Thankfully, people are still interested in these challenges: our Great Walk of Africa, which provides our visitors with a 120 mile walk across the wilderness of Tsavo, has proved to be one of our most successful safaris in recent years.

We’ve found another special adventure, and we’re inviting you!

Join us as a member of this special safari, where we will hike with our guide Alex Fiksman, along the “Edge of Africa” – the Great Rift Valley. For 7 days we’ll hike from Kenya’s Loita Hills (the spiritual land of the Maasai people), into the equatorial forest of the Nguruman Escarpment, which forms the dramatic western edge of the Rift Valley.

In the company of Maasai warriors, we’ll enter this silent world of forested ridges and valleys – and home to elephant, buffalo and leopard - from where magnificent waterfalls spill over the edge of the Great Rift onto the plains several thousand feet below. We’ll then descend into the Rift Valley, and cross the plains to the edge of flamingo-fringed Lake Natron on the Tanzania border, then on towards the foot of Shompole Mountain.

Before we commence our hike we will “recover” from our flights to Kenya with two wildlife-filled days in the Maasai Mara (regarded by many as Africa’s premiere park). At the end of our hike we’ll spend two nights in the exclusive Shompole Lodge.