Honest journeys, beautifully made.
Safari in Kenya and Tanzania, the beaches of the Indian Ocean and doctor-led Ayurveda in Sri Lanka, planned personally by someone who grew up on that coast.
A quiet shore, Indian Ocean
Your money
Every payment you make goes into a UK trust account with Protected Trust Services (PTS membership no. 6571). The tour operator or supplier is paid from there.
Your trip
When you book a package through us, the tour operator who provides it is the organiser, and we tell you who that is before you pay. If anything goes wrong, you call us first and we deal with them for you.
Your planner
One person plans your journey, from the first conversation to your last night away. You will always know who you are speaking to, and you will have her number while you are travelling.
Four places we know properly.
We keep to a few places we know well. Knowing the ground is what turns a good trip into a memorable one.
Kenya & Tanzania
Private safaris with your own guide and vehicle can be arranged. Migration timing, quiet camps, and the parks worth the drive.
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Zanzibar & Lamu
The Indian Ocean coast, usually paired with safari. Beaches, spice farms and old Swahili towns.
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Sri Lanka
Doctor-led Ayurveda and classical Panchakarma, alongside tea country, coast and culture.
Explore →Also: beach and island holidays in the Maldives, Mauritius and the Seychelles.
Sri Lanka · Wellness
Ayurveda, honestly described.
Some operators sell a week of massages and call it Panchakarma. Classical Panchakarma takes two to three weeks, so we sell it separately at that length and describe the shorter programmes as what they are.
Every programme starts with a consultation with a registered Ayurvedic physician and ends with guidance you can take home.
See the Sri Lanka programmes →Reset
A short, restful stay with a treatment and yoga each day and time to stop. We make no clinical claims for five nights.
Ayurvedic Wellness Programme
A consultation with a registered physician, a daily programme set for you, prescribed treatments and herbal medicine.
Men’s Wellness
More active than restful, with Ayurvedic treatment alongside physical training. We are setting this programme up with a partner centre now.
Classical Panchakarma
The full classical programme, residential and physician-led, over the two to three weeks it needs.
Looked after, every step.
We will tell you when a lodge is not worth what it costs, when your dates are wrong for where you are going, and when the trip you have described will not do what you are hoping it will.
That occasionally costs us the booking. We would rather that than you finding out when you arrive.
How we work →
Watamu, Kenya
The person planning your trip
I’m Shabnam Rinth.
I was born in Mombasa, spent twenty years in the British travel industry (Page & Moy, Hogg Robinson, Thomas Cook) and still travel to Kenya most years to see family.
I started Nzurie to plan trips the way I would want my own planned: honestly, in detail, and by one person who answers the phone.
Some of the journeys here I have designed myself. Others are packages from tour operators I have chosen to work with, and I will always tell you which is which.
Advice you can trust, journeys you’ll cherish.
Tell us roughly where, roughly when, and what you are hoping for. Shabnam will reply personally within two working days, or call if you would rather talk it through.
Start a conversationOr call 0330 520 0245 · Mon–Fri, 9.00–5.30
Nzurie Ltd is registered in England and Wales, company number 17454818. Nzurie acts as a travel agent. Packages are provided and organised by our supplier partners. Client money is protected through Protected Trust Services (PTS membership no. 6571).