Cottars 1920s, Reviews , Rating Kenya Masai Mara

Cottars Safari Service earned the title of a longest serving name in business and this gives them a belief that their 80 years of experience handed down through the generations, give them an advantage in providing clients with what they expect from a quality safari experience, for example; adventure, comfort, security and many others.

In the year 1919, the Cottar Safari tradition began and yet even after eighty years, it has continued to provide an unparalleled safari experience to discerning African Mecca guests that Africa hosts.
Extending an era of luxury and quality, Cottars Safari Service returns to the original spirit and essence of “safari” reminiscent of a golden era that includes; romance, professional guiding, adventure and elegance.

The Cottars Safari, a 1920s camp is located in the Masai mara, bordering the Serengeti and Loliondo Ecosystem in an untouched 200,000-acre exclusive concession offering the discerning guests with a guarantee of privacy and a lot of wildlife.

A maximum of twelve (12) clients can be accommodated by the camp in authentic white canvas tents, which are spacious and luxuriously furnished and incorporate original safari antiques from the 1920s; private en suite dressing rooms and bathrooms (with old-fashioned styled tubs, showers and flushing toilets), the main bedroom and an outdoor verandah.

Some of the nature experience and activities at Cottars Mara Safari Camp include the following: -
§ A tented reading room with an extensive array of African, modern books and magazines or Cottar’s natural rock swimming pool with surrounding hammocks are the alternative to wildlife viewing.
§ Guided walking and night drives are also highly allowed and recommended, because Cottars Mara Camp is located outside the game park. By walking, visitors get much closer to nature, and if a chance of tracking wild game comes, guests will even be taken closer by Cottar’s trained trackers.
§ There are also game drives that Calvin Cottar or guides of equal professional standard do guide in either state of the art modern four wheel drive cars, in Cottar’s authentic and old wooden car or in oxen pulled wagon.

The Cottar’s 1920s Mara Safari Camp has got some personalities behind it and some of these include the following;
1. CALVIN COTTAR: - Calvin a fourth generation Kenyan, grew up in the bush, with the aim of gaining experience with wildlife from his father Glen and his father’s tracker Bajila. He started guiding clients on game drives and walks from the family camp in the Mara when he was 15 years old, from there, he went to Tanzania as a professional hunter spending 5 years before returning to Kenya.
When he returned, he set up a wildlife management company that provided landowners with services. He later joined the Kenya wildlife service in 1993 in the Community development department, where he developed the idea of five district wild life associations, to help landowners get user rights of their wildlife. He then rejoined the family company to initiate the 1920s project inn July 1995 and it is important to note that he has been voted Kenya’s bet guide. After passing his silver-level KPSGA exam, he also won himself a position as Honorary Warden for the Kenya Wildlife Service. Meanwhile, his wife Louise also stays with him at Cottars 1920s Camp.

2. LOUISE COTTAR: Louise was born in England and studying a degree in International Business made him come to Kenya in 1989. He is noted to have returned to Africa in 1994 as the co-ordinator of a UN program in Somalia, and this was after he had finished both an undergraduate and masters degree plus working in Europe. He succeeded in having the willingness to work in places of risks and taking risks themselves, thereby winning himself a reputation, for it true that when he was thrown in at the Africa deep in one of the most dangerous countries to live and work, he went and spent almost four years there.

3. PHIL WEST: - Phil, a member of the Field Guides Association of South Africa and the Kenya Professional Guides Association, is a young and up coming guide who was born in Kenya and spent most of his youth life in the Tsavo bush.
This well known collector of arthropods for the Nairobi Museum, with a particular interest in tracking bush craft and ethno-botany, was educated in the UK and trained as
a guide at Lewa Down and now he is a freelance guide with Walking Safaris as his particular area of specialisation.

4. JOHN SAMPEKE: - From his personal experience and perspective, John who was born and raised in Maasai land brings African Mecca clients a wealth of knowledge of Maasai culture and traditions. Passing the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association with the highest grades in his class, John who joined Cottar with over 10 years of experience, working with the best safari companies in Kenya, is believed to be highly educated, quietly entertaining and undoubtedly the best Maasai professional guide in the business.

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