Meet your guides
Everyone who drives for us is a Maasai field guide from a community bordering the ecosystem, and a licensed professional. One is why we hire; the other is what makes it a career.
Credentials
Current Tanzanian professional guiding certification, held individually. The company operates under a TALA licence.
A valid first-aid qualification, refreshed every year at the company's cost. Every vehicle carries a stocked kit and every guide is trained on it.
Company-funded training each year, and a paid apprenticeship for one or two new guides — not an unpaid internship.
Loliondo · 14 years guiding
Started as a spotter at nineteen and has worked every migration season since. Reads the herd's leading edge the way other people read a timetable.
Ololosokwan · 11 years guiding
More than five hundred species logged inside the ecosystem, and the person the rest of the team radios when nobody can name a call.
Longido · 17 years guiding
Co-founder, and the guide photographers ask for. Reads the light and where an animal will move, then puts the car where the picture will happen.
Monduli Juu · 9 years guiding
Builds a day around the people in the vehicle rather than a fixed route. Unusually good with children — she gives them a job, usually spotting.
Endulen, Ngorongoro · 12 years guiding
Grew up on the Ngorongoro highlands and leads our crater days. Sets up a scope outside camp on clear nights, which is on no itinerary and is one of the best things we do.
Kisongo · 8 years guiding
Qualified to lead walking safaris, and hosts the cultural exchange day in his own community. Firm about how that day is run.
We match a guide to a trip rather than rotating a list. A first safari with children goes to Nalepo. A photographic trip goes to Saitoti. A crater week goes to Sironka.
You are told who is driving you before you pay your balance, and you can message them beforehand. If we have to change your guide, you hear it the moment we know.
We recruit through the communities our guides come from, and take on one or two trainees a year on a paid apprenticeship. Certification, first aid and continuing training are paid for by the company.
If you guide in northern Tanzania, write to [email protected].
