The World’s Most Awarded Safari Company

Micato Safaris is the Rolls-Royce of the safari world.

—Forbes Magazine

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Dear Friends,

Of all the compliments that have come our way in the past 56 years, perhaps the most heartening is from Travel+Leisure: “The Pintos treat their guests like well-loved, out-of-town relatives.”

Micato’s dedication to expert, familial service is the legacy of our founders, my parents Felix and Jane (pictured below in Nairobi). Willingness to go many extra miles to ensure that a Micato safari is the trip of a lifetime—as it is for so many of our guests— is the rock on which Felix and Jane built our family-owned, family-operated company, and why every member of the Micato team will become your welcoming family, from the Safari Director who will be with you from touchdown to takeoff, to our large staffs in Eastern and Southern Africa and the U.S.

Our eight African countries fared relatively well during the pandemic, far better than the U.S., Europe, and almost all the world’s most popular destinations. When travel was shut down, we kept the Micato family together, redoubling our commitment to Micato-AmericaShare and Huru (see pages 38-45), and we’ve been sending travellers on (safe, sane, and Covid protocoled) safari since early winter of 2020-21. Africa’s open skies beckon.

And so, I hope you’ll enjoy an armchair safari with this brochure, and that you’ll consider joining us for hilltop sundowners overlooking the guileless and gorgeous African game lands. We’ll clink our glasses in celebration of the safari life Isak Dinesen said “makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne—bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.”

Sincerely,

Dennis Pinto Managing Director

the pinto FAMILY A Unique African Story

In 1963 Felix Pinto, a high-ranking member of Kenya’s colonial government, was personally invited by Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s founding father, into the government of the newly independent country, where he was instrumental in laying the foundations for Kenya’s agricultural success story.

Jane Pinto—like Felix, a second-generation Kenyan—was an elite international table tennis player. They lived on a rambling farm off Bogani Road, in the Nairobi suburb of Karen, where they raised their three kids.

In 1966 Felix and Jane—known as Mama Kibiriti, She Who Gets Things Done—now in retirement yet full of energy and talent, decided to start a little safari company. The brochure you hold in your hands is evidence of their success. But Micato, now a big company, remains a family affair, committed to making its Micato affiliate employees on three continents, and its guests from all over the world, feel like family.

Felix Pinto and Jane Pinto, Micato Africa’s founders, live just outside Nairobi in beautiful Lavington House, where they entertain all Micato visitors in the capital city; they also enjoy sojourns to their Cape Town residence and safaris with their children and grandchildren.

Felix is one of Kenya’s most highly respected businessmen. The family’s Ideal Farm, close by Nairobi National Park, was for many years a model East African agro-industrial enterprise (and the home of a cadre of prize-winning livestock—including a massively beautiful champion pig who occupies regal stature in family lore; when you dine with Felix and Jane in Nairobi, ask them to tell you the story of the Empress of Ideal Farm).