Kenya Safaris | Safari and Soul

Kenya is where the word safari was born, and it still sets the standard: the Maasai Mara at migration time, elephant beneath Kilimanjaro at Amboseli, and the wild northern frontier of Laikipia and Samburu.

We plan Kenya around rhythm rather than checklists. A few slow days in a private conservancy bordering the Mara, where night drives and walking are permitted and vehicles are few, do more for a first safari than a week of chasing sightings.

From there the country opens up. Laikipia for rhino and community-owned conservancies, Samburu for the dry-country species you will see nowhere else, and the coast at Lamu or Watamu when you are ready to trade dust for the Indian Ocean.

Plan a Kenya safari

Best time: July – October, January – March
Suggested stay: 8 – 12 nights
Pace: Two or three camps
Pairs with: Tanzania, Rwanda

Where to go

Regions of Kenya

01
Maasai Mara & conservancies
Big cats, the Great Migration from July to October, and private conservancies with a fraction of the vehicles.
02
Amboseli
Elephant families crossing dry lake beds beneath Kilimanjaro. Best at first light.
03
Laikipia & Samburu
Rhino conservation, community conservancies, camel walks and the special five of the north.
04
The coast
Lamu’s Swahili old town and the barefoot beaches of Watamu to close a journey gently.

Our approach

Fewer camps, longer stays

Three nights is the minimum we recommend anywhere. It takes a day to arrive, a day to settle, and only then does the bush start to show itself. In Kenya we typically pair two or three camps chosen for contrast, not for ticking regions off a map.

Sample journeys

Journeys that include Kenya

Kenya · Tanzania · 10 nights

The Great Migration

Follow the herds from the Serengeti to the Maasai Mara, staying in a mobile camp that moves with the migration and finishing in a private conservancy with walking and night drives.

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