Which Animals Will You See?
Tell us the one you want, and we will tell you where to find it.
From the most elusive sunda clouded leopards on private night drives in Borneo to snow leopard expeditions in Ladakh with a near perfect success rate, these are the species our guests ask for most, and the places we know best to find them.
Plan Your Wildlife Safari
Guests come to us asking where to find a leopard, a wild orangutan, or the world's rarest big cats. This page is our honest answer: not a promise of any single sighting, but a lifetime's experience in exactly where and how to look.
Elusive by Design
Wildlife our guests want to observe
Handpicked for how elusive and how rewarding the search for each one is, from wide open plains to a single riverbank in Borneo.
Clouded Leopard
Neofelis diardiThe holy grail of Asian cats, rarely seen and rarely photographed well. We track it after dark in Deramakot's forest reserve, where research grade guides and quiet, single vehicle night drives give you the best odds anywhere in Borneo. Sightings are never guaranteed, but few places offer a fairer chance.
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Sri Lankan Leopard
Panthera pardus kotiyaYala holds the highest documented leopard density anywhere on Earth, and its leopards behave differently for it, more visible, more used to a respectful distance. Private trackers read pugmarks and alarm calls to place you ahead of the cat, not behind it. Multiple sightings across a single stay are common.
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Snow Leopard
Panthera unciaWinter expeditions into the Changthang highlands, where dedicated spotters scan the ridgelines from first light. It is patient, cold work, days spent glassing a valley for a single grey shape against grey rock, but our success rate here runs close to full across recent seasons. Few wildlife experiences reward stillness quite like this one.
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African Leopard
Panthera pardusSouth Luangwa has long been called the Valley of the Leopard, and few places anywhere match its density of confident, camera ready cats. We track them by day along the riverline and after dark on licensed spotlight drives, when the valley belongs almost entirely to them. It remains one of the most reliable leopard destinations we send guests to.
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Wild Orangutan
Pongo pygmaeusTruly wild apes, never fed, never staged, encountered on their own terms along the Kinabatangan river and deep in Danum Valley's primary forest. Mornings on the river often bring mothers and infants building nests in the canopy overhead. This is Borneo's signature encounter, and the reason many guests come to the island in the first place.
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Bengal Tiger
Panthera tigris tigrisForest tigers by open jeep across Central India's reserves, and the far more elusive swamp tiger of the Sundarbans by private boat through tidal mangrove channels. Each landscape produces a different kind of sighting, and a different kind of story. Together they cover the full range of how a tiger can be seen in the wild.
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Lion
Panthera leoPrides of the private conservancies beyond the Mara reserve, and the far quieter lion country of remote Ruaha in southern Tanzania. Both offer close, unhurried encounters without the vehicle numbers of the main reserves. Night drives in the conservancies add a second, rarely seen dimension to how these cats hunt.
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Pygmy Elephant
Elephas maximus borneensisThe world's smallest elephant, found only on this one island, and best watched from a boat drifting quietly along the Kinabatangan. Family herds move along the riverbanks through the morning and late afternoon, often crossing the water in full view. It is one of the gentlest, most accessible wildlife encounters we offer anywhere.
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Carmine Bee Eater
Merops nubicoidesCliffside colonies of brilliant crimson gather along the Luangwa's riverbanks each dry season, thousands of birds nesting in burrows carved into the sandbanks. Boat based viewing in September and October puts you level with the colony at its most active. Few sights in African birding are as immediately spectacular.
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Civet
ViverridaeSpecialist nocturnal safaris built around the small, secretive carnivores few operators bother to look for, banded civets in Danum Valley's understorey, African civets on night drives through South Luangwa. These are patient, spotlight led safaris for travellers who have already seen the obvious species and want the next layer down. A guide who knows exactly where to look makes all the difference.
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Africa's Big Five defined a century of safari. Borneo has quietly built an answer of its own.
African Big Five
Kenya, Tanzania & ZambiaBornean Big Five
Malaysian BorneoQuestions We Are Asked Often
The honest answers behind the questions guests send us on social media and through our contact form.
Planning Your Sighting
Can you guarantee a specific sighting, such as a snow leopard or a tiger?
No responsible operator can promise a single sighting on a single trip. What we can tell you honestly is that our snow leopard expeditions have run at close to a 100 percent success rate to date, built on dedicated spotters, the right season and a conservative approach to timing.
Where can we see the wildebeest migration?
In the Masai Mara and the Serengeti, timed to the herd's movement through the year. We choose your camp and travel dates around where the migration actually is that season, rather than a fixed calendar date.
What if the animal I want is not listed on this page?
Tell us anyway. This page covers the species we are asked for most, not the full range of what we can help you find. Many of our most memorable itineraries began with a single, specific request.
Species & Destinations
What wild cats can you help us see?
Nearly every size, from lions and leopards down to civets and clouded leopards. Leopards are a particular focus for us: we cover South Luangwa, Yala, the Masai Mara and Borneo, spanning African, Sri Lankan, snow and clouded leopard.
Where is the best place to see wild orangutan?
Deramakot, Kinabatangan, Danum Valley, Trusan Sugut and Tabin. These are genuinely wild, unhabituated populations, never fed or staged for visitors.
What is the difference between the African and Bornean Big Five?
The African Big Five, lion, leopard, buffalo, rhinoceros and elephant, defined a century of safari. Borneo's answer, the pygmy elephant, proboscis monkey, orangutan, rhinoceros hornbill and crocodile, is every bit as rare, and far less crowded.
Malaysia
River & Rainforest
Orangutan, pygmy elephant and clouded leopard along the Kinabatangan and in Deramakot.
Zambia
The Walking Safari
Leopard density and night drives across South Luangwa's riverine forest.
Tanzania
The Endless Plain
The Great Migration in the Serengeti, and remote solitude further south in Ruaha.
Kenya
Beyond the Mara
Private conservancies beyond the reserve, built around the Mara's resident big cats.
India
Big Cats & Culture
Bengal tiger, snow leopard and the one horned rhinoceros across four distinct regions.
Tell us the animal. We will tell you where.
Every itinerary we build starts with a single question: what do you most want to see? From there we choose the country, the season and the exact reserve.