For time pressed safari-addicts, it’s entirely possible to whizz down to Africa for a long weekend break, adding a night or two on to a Bank Holiday to make an extraordinary escape from office life. Flying out of London in the early evening, it’s easy to be in the Masai Mara by mid-morning for a 4 night, adrenalin packed classic safari adventure.

There are some combinations that are classics because they work: gin and tonic, Lennon and McCartney, clotted cream and strawberry jam. To this, we’d add East Africa’s very own classic combination: the Masai Mara and Zanzibar. Spend four days in the Masai Mara enjoying some of the best game viewing on earth, and follow with six days snoozing under a coconut palm on Zanzibar.

If you’ve got a team of tiny explorers, look no further than Kenya. With generations of experience raising their own bush babies, these Kenyans certainly know how to create an unbeatable family adventure. Meet the animals up close at Nairobi’s Giraffe Manor, then head out to the bush for game drives, camel rides and visits to the Laikipia Maasai. At the end of your trip, hide away on a deserted beach on Kenya’s remote coastline.

If you follow the sunshine to Africa, you’ll be following the crowds. During the green season, however, and it’ll only be you, the photographers and the serious safari cognoscenti. The grasslands turn a vivid shade of green, the sunsets are unforgettable and the game reserves virtually empty. Welcome to the Kenya most tourists never see...

Get back to nature on this dream of a trip across African plains to wild, deserted Seychelles beaches. A holiday of superlative experiences seen from small, select lodges and luxury beach hotels.

Safari-virgins take note: Kenya is everything you expect a safari to be. Vast open savannahs, fantastic game viewing, ancient tribal cultures, luxurious tented camps. Visit the private conservancies of Laikipia, teeming with game, watch the wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara, and finish beside the Indian Ocean for a text-book East African experience.

An African honeymoon needn’t mean campsites and basic beach lodges. Instead, we present you with some of Kenya’s finest boutique hotels, all chic, stylish and wildly romantic, where you enjoy an indulgent honeymoon without sacrificing any of the adventure. Start in the untouched wilderness of Samburu National Park, home of the Samburu tribe, before tracking the great elephant herds of the exclusive Loisaba Conservancy and ending up on the white sands of Kenya’s Indian Ocean coastline.

Kenya has many of the African big names which draw visitors from across the world, but at Exsus, we’d like to show you those special places that few other travellers see.