Meet the Safari Expert Behind GTour’s East Africa Coverage

By Safari News — Africa Calling Safaris, Partner desk, Nairobi · 14/10/2026

Updated 23 October 2026

Nikos Pocock leads Africa Calling Safaris, a Nairobi-based operator building custom journeys across East Africa. Since the early 2000s he has guided and managed trips through Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda, and that field experience informs every itinerary his company puts together.

A certified guide and member of the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association, Pocock knows the Maasai Mara ecosystem, Amboseli National Park and Samburu National Reserve well, along with the mountain gorilla habitat of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. His clients range from wildlife photographers and conservation researchers to honeymooners and extended family groups, each given the same level of attention regardless of itinerary size. Much of his understanding comes from time spent walking rather than driving through these landscapes, which he says changes how animal behaviour and terrain read on the ground. He points to the quiet early hours in the Mara, ahead of the day’s vehicle traffic, as the moment the reserve is most itself.

Pocock now reviews the destination and wildlife content GTour publishes in its Safari section, checking ecological detail and logistics against his own field notes and conversations with colleagues across the region. Travellers coming from Europe or the Caucasus typically reach Nairobi via one or two connecting flights, making it straightforward to combine a Georgian itinerary with an East African safari in the same trip. He is based in Nairobi and takes enquiries on itinerary planning through Africa Calling Safaris.

Based on reporting by Safari News, the travel desk of Africa Calling Safaris (Nairobi), GTour’s partner for East Africa. Read the original there.