Micato Safaris 2024 Guest Photo Contest Winners

By Micato Staff April 10, 2025

Surprises, the good kind, are what we want for you on a Micato safari. Some surprises we orchestrate, and with great care. Naturally, we won’t elaborate on what those surprises are because then we’d have to call them something else.

Some surprises, however, we can hardly wait to share. Like the look of surprise on the face of this Maasai Mara monkey above. Or the feeling of surprise the photographer, Micato guest Scott Polen, experienced when he spied this gobsmacked creature and snapped the photo.

Because of this image, it’s our pleasure to announce that Scott is the 2024 Grand Prize winner of the Micato Photo Contest. His winnings: A $2,500 cash prize and a $3,000 credit in the Micato Safari Shop.

Allow us also to present our second-place winner, these Samburu dancers who greeted Micato guest Doug Whitman and friends upon arrival at Loisaba Conservancy. For his efforts, Doug will receive a $1,500 cash prize and a $2,000 credit in our Shop.

Our third-place winner is Micato guest Steve Rossi and this stunning photo of a leopard in Sabi Sand Nature Reserve, for which Steve will receive $1,000 cash and a $1,000 Micato Safari Shop credit. About this moment, Steve writes: “The sun had just gone down and we came upon this leopard… who had gone down to the watering hole for a drink. Luck was upon us to witness this incredible cat and marked a great way to start our safari.”

We realize this text is the only thing that stands between you and clicking through the rest of our winners below, so we’ll be brief:

We are grateful to all who enter our contest, open to all travellers who have ventured either to Micato’s Africa or Micato’s India.
You may enter the contest anytime with photos you shot any year you travelled with Micato. We announce winners annually. So for any given calendar year—say, 2025—we will reveal our winners early next year.
Here’s a reminder of what we’re looking for as well as how to enter.
If you’ve yet to travel with Micato, we hope these stunning photos inspire you or your travel advisor to contact us, as our Micato Safari Directors would love to get you to the right places at the right times to take astonishing photos like these.

Enjoy!