Busanga Safaris Ltd is a privately owned specialist safari company. We have been successfully arranging safaris for clients since 1999 and have enjoyed a steady growth in our safari activities and diversification of our destinations. We run things with care and attention to detail, fully insured and bonded for our guests safety and financial security.
Our main criterion when choosing a safari destination is the wildlife which we will encounter. The camps that we use were selected because they appealed to us when we stayed there as guests or friends and because they offer good guides with extensive local knowledge.
We really care that our guests have an outstanding safari that very often results in them returning for future expeditions. As testament to this we arrange around half of our safaris for repeat clients, or through personal recommendations, in addition to new clients who come to us through our website or from advertising in publications such as BBC Wildlife magazine.

In addition to the various small group set date safari ideas that we offer we can also arrange safaris that are tailored to your requirements. Just let us know what you have in mind and your budget and we will come back to you with some suitable itineraries.

Meet the Team:

Tony McKeith - Founder- safari consultant and guide. Tony will arrange your booking and help to plan the best itinerary to suit you. Always available to answer any questions relating to your safari and especially happy to talk endlessly about the wildlife you are likely to see or may wish to encounter. Tony leads several set date escorted safaris during the season and is available to escort you on your safari to take the thinking out of the trip. A life time of love of wildlife and a passion for travel which has seen Tony searching out wildlife from China to the Congo. 2010 & 2011 saw Tony building and working as the resident manager at Island Bush Camp in Zambia's Luangwa Valley. 

Clare Gibbs - Co Founder - Company Secretary. Clare provides the administrative skills that ensure your booking confirmations and invoices are always accurate and dispatched promptly! Clare has a great deal of travel experience gained from many years in the airline industry and is also a very skilled wildlife artist.
Clare also instigated Busanga safaris' newest winter project where we invite our clients old and new to stay with us on birding and nature weekends at our little village house in a beautiful Spanish valley where Golden Eagles soar and walks in the winter sun are fueled with great local food.

 
 

Tyrone (Magoo) McKeith BSc (Hons) Wildlife conservation – safari consultant / guide. Literally spending every spare moment on safari from a very young age and having gained a Wildlife Conservation & Management degree at the world renowned Durrell Institute at the University of Kent, still only 23 years old, Tyrone has built a reputation for his in depth knowledge enthusiasm and charismatic style of guiding. Managed safari bush camps in Zambia's Luangwa Valley but is best known for his work in the Kafue where he has lived and worked for the last couple of years on the wonderfully wild Busanga plains, combining introducing guests to the Kafue with working tirelessly to promote and help protect it's wildlife. Tyrone gives talks about his life and experiences living on safari at all the major travel shows, also a guest speaker at Eton College's Shackleton Society and a contributor to the Zambia tourism website, and many internet wildlife magazines and forums. Tyrone has safaried in Kenya, Malawi and Botswana and south America and the far east.  
Tyrone will be guiding a number of our set date safaris in 2012 and embarking on a new project that sees him establishing his own new safari camp and the very first walking safari trails in the Kafue that will take guests under the skin of this fascinating place.

Phil Jeffery BSc (Hons) Wildlife Conservation - Guide Zambian born and brought up in Lusaka Phil has a wonderfully engaging personality and encyclopaedic knowledge was started by his wildlife researcher and pro pilot father from a very young age, Phil has limitless passion for the bush and has been a professional guide and been responsible for guide training for Wilderness safaris in the Zambia since graduating with Tyrone (which is where they first met) at the Durrell Institute. At the forefront of initiatives to support antipoaching activities in conjunction with the Zambian Wildlife authorities he is of a very few who really knows the Kafue. Phil will be leading several set date safaris in 2012, will be able to privately guide / drive you on your own mobile safari (on request). Phil is currently working hard to establish the new safari camp and mobile safaris in the Kafue where quality mobile camping will be combined with simply the best and most enthusiastic guiding that the Kafue has ever seen. 

Doug Macdonald is a qualified professional safari guide who lives in Zimbabwe with his wife and two sons and has been in the safari industry since 1994. Doug did his first canoe trip down the Zambezi River at the age of 12. After getting a college degree in Hotel and Catering Management he achieved his Professional Guides License in 1998. We have joined up with Doug to create some new safari ideas to visit Zimbabwe the sleeping giant of safari. We strongly feel that now is the time to begin to offer Zimbabwean safaris to support and promote the great wildlife that still very much exists in Zim. Doug has travelled and guided extensively in Zimbabwe and through many countries in Africa specialising in photographic and adventure safaris. Doug has a very easy going manner and finds great pleasure in passing on his knowledge and          understanding of his environment to his guests to make your safari as interesting and exciting as possible.

Jules Sykes - Jules has been arranging and leading birding and wildlife journeys across Europe for many years with his trademark enthusiasum and good humour. Jules and Busanga first joined forces for 2010 to offer our clients the very rare chance to seek out Iberian Wolf and Lyx in Spain on short break wildlife journeys and birding trips. Jules is in the processs of planning to guide small group departures to Botswana guiding with a real 'Birding' emphasis. If you are interested in rare euopean mammals or birding safaris why not check the offerings on our website or send us a line and we will be happy to let you know what we have palnned or what we can plan just for you.

Pete Cooper - Photographic guide and Tiger expert. Pete spent the first twenty years of his working life in Finance and Management. Inspired by his first trip to Tanzania he began to combine a lifelong appreciation of wildlife with photography. In early 2005 during a safari to India he was accompanied by the BBC and filmed for a documentary that was screened as part of the Inside Out Series on BBC One in September 2005. He now spends many months each year studying Tigers in India and runs a series of tours there to support both the wildlife and local communities. We are over the moon to be working with Pete who will be guiding on a selection of wildlife tours in India & Sri lanka in 2012. 

Grant Atkinson - We first encountered Grant in Botswana where he was a senior and very highly regarded guide for Wilderness Safaris. Apart from being a thoroughly nice chap, he is an excellent professional guide with outstanding wildlife skill and knowledge and just to rub it in he is also one of the best wildlife photographers that we have come across. Apart from being able to use Grant's guiding skills as a private guide for our guests on some of our Botswana safaris and with plans for Grant to run a small number of photo safaris to Zambia in 2012.
Grant is developing his love of photography by offering his outstanding images for sale through his own portal. 
 

Linda Lee. Has been a regular visitor to East and South Africa, for many years, like so many off us, initially visiting the Masai Mara, where she was immediately bitten by the safari bug. Since then Linda has safaried in depth in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, Uganda, South Africa. In the last 5 years, Linda has been visiting to Zambia each season building on her experience, travelling to many parts of Kafue seldom visited as well as her favourite spots on the Busanga plains and also visiting North and South Luangwa, Kasanka and Bangweulu. Linda has worked as a conservation volunteer on a Leopard and general wildlife projects in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
As a wildlife/safari enthusiast and often a single traveller, Linda recognises the importance of a well organised trip and the value of good ground support, whether travelling as part of a small group, or individually. Linda re-joins our Busanga team to offer that support to our guests on our 2012 escorted tours in Zambia.