Tag: Kenya Safari

Camping in Kenya’s National Parks: Public vs Special Campsites Explained

Simple tented rooms at a Masai Mara camp, the style covered in our best budget safari camps in Kenya guide

Camping in Kenya is one of the most rewarding ways to experience the country’s national parks, and it runs through Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on a two-tier system most first-time visitors have never heard of: public campsites with basic shared facilities, and special campsites that give one group exclusive, unserviced ground for an advance-booked stay. […]

Best Parks for Walking Safaris in Kenya: Where You’re Actually Allowed on Foot

Walking bush safari safety in practice as a guide and ranger lead guests through Laikipia

The best parks for walking safaris in Kenya narrow down quickly, because most of the country’s famous parks and reserves keep visitors in a vehicle for safety. Hell’s Gate is one of the few national parks where you may walk and cycle, following Kenya Wildlife Service rules. Crescent Island, a private sanctuary on Lake Naivasha, […]

Best Parks for Photography in Kenya: Where Light, Wildlife and Backdrop Line Up

Rhino grazing at Solio Conservancy, a protected area supported partly by visitor conservation fees

The best parks for photography in Kenya are not automatically the parks with the most animals: a photographer needs light, backdrop and behaviour to line up, not just a species checklist. Amboseli delivers one of Africa’s most photographed scenes, elephants beneath Mount Kilimanjaro. The Masai Mara offers predator behaviour and action that few reserves can […]

Most Scenic National Parks in Kenya: 6 Landscapes Beyond the Wildlife

Safari jeep driving towards Mount Kilimanjaro on the road near Amboseli

The most scenic national parks in Kenya offer landscapes that stand on their own, whatever wildlife happens to walk through the frame. Hell’s Gate’s red-cliff gorge, lined with volcanic rock towers, is widely reported to have been visited by Disney animators researching The Lion King. Aberdare’s moorland rises to almost 4,000 metres, cut by waterfall-filled […]

Wildlife Conservation in Kenya: The Real Story Behind the Rhinos You’ll See

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Wildlife conservation in Kenya is not an abstract cause you read about before a trip; it is something you can visit, and at Ol Pejeta you can stand a few metres from it. Kenya’s black rhinos fell to a few hundred animals by the late 1980s under heavy poaching. Since then, fenced sanctuaries and community […]

Best Day Trips from Nairobi: 9 Places That Don’t Need a Full Safari

Safari guests viewing lions from a private safari vehicle in the Masai Mara

The best day trips from Nairobi solve a problem every visitor eventually has: not everyone has a week free for a full safari, but a single free day in the capital should not mean staying in a hotel. Wild lions live about 20 minutes from downtown Nairobi; a rhino sanctuary with a soda lake sits […]

Best Hidden National Parks in Kenya: 8 Places the Safari Circuit Skips

View across the Masai Mara plains toward the Oloololo Escarpment

The best hidden national parks in Kenya sit well outside the Mara, Amboseli and Nakuru circuit that most first-time visitors book, and they offer experiences the famous parks simply do not have. Elephants that mine salt inside dark caves. An antelope so shy it hides underwater. Volcanic islands in a jade-green desert lake, where Nile […]