Spotters

Spotters - the sharpest (human) eyes on the Serengeti

All our game drives are led by experienced Rangers, who have many years of guiding experience. Being permanently stationed in the Serengeti, they know where the game can be found, and share hour-by-hour information on where the best viewing opportunities lie.

We are one of the very few operators who use local spotters to augment our Rangers’ eyes and ears. These members of the indigenous Kuria tribe sit at the back of each vehicle, using binoculars but also their innate skills and powers of observation to detect movements, spoor and other signs of hidden animals.

These young men are superb spotters, and by employing them we save them (and local wildlife) from their only other form of income: poaching. In this way, everyone wins: Bushtops gains local expertise; the Tanzanian authorities minimise poaching; you benefit from the sharpest human senses on the Serengeti (no one knows the bush better than those who have spent days on foot searching for prey); the Kuria get a fruitful and sustainable livelihood – and wildlife is left unpoached.