Out of Africa

Channel your inner Robert Redford or Meryl Streep at the award-winning Cottar’s 1920s Safari Camp, which has its own 7608-acre private conservancy and is situated one kilometer from the famous Maasai Mara in Kenya and the Tanzania Serengeti game reserve. Owned and managed by the oldest established and continuing safari family in Africa, it extends an era of luxury and quality and returns to the original spirit and essence of safari.

See for yourself the Great Migration -- the movement of a million plus wildebeests from the Serengeti in Tanzania northwards into the adjoining Maasai Mara Reserve in Kenya. This is one of the world's most spectacular and thrilling displays of wildlife behavior. The migration takes place every year with the animals' primal instincts guiding them towards greener pastures following the climatic rain fall patterns over the Serengeti-Maasai Mara ecosystem.

Experience the spoils of East Africa. One distinct advantage of traveling in this area is that at dawn, you can find yourself in the middle of a huge herd of antelope as they cross golden grasslands and then be walking along a pristine beach by sunset.

End on a high note -- a very tall, high note -- with a stay at Giraffe Manor, a historic manor house set in 12 acres of private land within 140 acres of indigenous forest in the Langata suburb of Nairobi. With its stately façade, elegant interior and verdant green gardens, guests often remark that it’s like walking into the film Out of Africa: indeed, one of its twelve rooms is named after the author Karen Blixen. One of the most fascinating things about Giraffe Manor is its resident herd of Rothschild’s giraffes who may visit morning and evening, poking their long necks into the windows in the hope of a treat, before retreating to their forest sanctuary.