Custom Safaris

30/04/2026

Personal space is optional 🐘

29/04/2026

100% energy, 0% plans

28/04/2026

This is a hyrax—one of the closest relatives of an elephant. Yeah… explain that.

27/04/2026

POV: this is why zoom exists

24/04/2026

Black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes?

23/04/2026

This is what we mean by front row seats. 🦏✨

22/04/2026

Just sniffing you out 🐘

21/04/2026

Something moves through the grass. Eyes catch the light, then vanish.

Out here, after dark, the rules change. The hunters wake. The shadows shift. And if you're still enough, quiet enough… you witness things that most people will never see in a lifetime.

That red glow? It's not for show. Nocturnal animals can't perceive red filtered light, so to them the night stays completely undisturbed. The hunt plays out exactly as nature intended. You're invisible to their world, watching it all unfold.

A world that has always existed. You just needed the night to find it.

05/04/2023

Twenty years on the Condé Nast Traveler Top Travel Specialist list. I could not have done this without our Custom Safaris staff who have been with me on this journey. Thank you to our partners in Africa who make the magic happen on the ground. I am honored to be included on this list with extraordinary individuals.

15/10/2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-maryland-zebras-are-trying-to-evade-capture-let-them/2021/10/14/c7fd40b0-2d24-11ec-8ef6-3ca8fe943a92_story.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main

The equines, hidden by acres of forest and farmland, deserve to be left alone.

08/07/2021

It's always a good day when Blossom decides to visit.

He said he'd heard about the newly renovated bar area at Governors Camp and he was just making sure that it doesn't interfere with his love of wandering through to say Jambo.

📷 Philip Mason