Wild Hope: A Conservation Journey with Ami Vitale
10 Days | 6 Guests Only | $59,995 per person | 15 – 24 February, 2027
About Your Guide: Ami Vitale
Ami Vitale is a National Geographic Explorer at Large, an award-winning photographer, documentary filmmaker, and founder of Vital Impacts. With nearly three decades across 100+ countries, she has documented some of the planet’s most urgent conservation stories — including the last northern white rhinos on Earth. She doesn’t just tell these stories. She fights for them.
From Ami:
I want to take you somewhere real. Not a curated highlight reel. Not a distant view from a safari vehicle. I want to bring you into the heart of the work, to meet the keepers, the rangers, the community leaders, and the scientists who are fighting, every single day, to protect what remains of our wild world.
I have photographed the last northern white rhinos on Earth. I’ve watched communities in Northern Kenya transform from poachers into protectors. I’ve seen what’s possible when human beings decide that wildlife is worth saving, and I’ve seen what’s at stake when we look away.
Wild Hope is an invitation to six people to live the work firsthand. Over ten extraordinary days, we will travel and document together – in style, in comfort, and with deep intention – through Kenya’s most important conservation landscapes, and then on to the pristine waters of the Seychelles. Every destination has been chosen because the story being told there matters.
Where We’re Going and Why It Matters
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya We will stand together in the presence of the two last northern white rhinos alive on this planet. You will meet James Mwenda, who spent years as keeper to Sudan — the last male of his kind — and whose devotion to these animals is one of the most quietly heroic stories we know. This is not a zoo encounter. This is a reckoning with extinction, and with hope.
Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, Namunyak Conservancy This community-owned sanctuary in the Samburu region is one of the most powerful conservation stories in Africa. Former poachers are now protectors. Local women are keepers. I have documented this transformation for years, and bringing you here — behind the scenes, in person — feels like completing a circle.
The Skies of Northern Kenya We’ll spend a full day in a private helicopter over landscapes so remote and strange they barely feel real — the Suguta Valley, the Hoodoo Valley, the Painted Valley, the vast sand dunes of the north, the southern shores of Lake Turkana. This will take your breath away.
Loisaba Conservancy We will have behind-the-scenes access to the active rhino conservation work happening here — the researchers, the data, the daily reality of protecting a species on the edge.
Six Senses Zil Pasyon, Félicité Island, Seychelles We end where the land meets the sea, in one of the most unspoiled marine ecosystems on Earth. We’ll snorkel with a marine biologist, explore the island, and take one last evening together on the water as the sun goes down. Because conservation isn’t only about urgency. It’s also about remembering what we’re protecting — and how beautiful it is.
How We Travel
Every flight — within Kenya and to the Seychelles — is aboard sustainable private executive aircraft and carbon-neutral charters. Our air operator was the first safari company in the world to offset 100% of its carbon emissions. We move through this world as lightly as we possibly can, without sacrificing a moment of comfort or wonder.
Learning to See
This journey is not just about witnessing the wild — it’s about learning to capture it. Throughout the trip, I will work with the group as a photography mentor, sharing the instincts and techniques I have developed over nearly three decades in the field. How to anticipate a moment before it happens. How to find the light that tells the truth. How to earn the trust of your subject — whether it’s a ranger, a rhino, or a child who has never seen a camera before.
We will go out together at dawn and dusk — the hours when the light is extraordinary and the animals are moving. No prior experience is required. What matters is curiosity, and the willingness to slow down and pay attention.
What Your Journey Gives Back
A meaningful portion of the proceeds from Wild Hope goes directly to the people and places doing the work: Ol Pejeta Rhino Sanctuary, Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, and Vital Impacts — the nonprofit Ami founded to use the power of storytelling for conservation.
You won’t just witness this work. You’ll help sustain it.
Organized by Six Senses, Bushtracks and Ami Vitale.
For more information, please contact Susie Arnett at susie.arnett@sixsenses.com.