A guest called me from the Ol Kinyei gate last year, stuck. She had 40,000 Kenyan shillings in cash and a stack of dollars, but no card reader in sight and no signal to check her eCitizen account. The gate wanted a pre-loaded Safari Card. It took two phone calls and forty minutes to sort […]
If you have already done the Masai Mara, you know the drill. Wall-to-wall vehicles at a leopard sighting, a radio crackling every few minutes, and a guide who knows exactly where the action is because ten other guides already told him. Meru National Park is the opposite of that. This Meru National Park safari guide […]
An affordable honeymoon safari Kenya trip is not a myth, even though the first search results suggest otherwise. Search “honeymoon safari Kenya” and you will find page after page quoting $800 to $1,500 per person, per night. That is a real price for a lodge in the Mara Triangle. It is not what most couples […]
If you ask ten camp managers along the Ewaso Nyiro River for the best month for wildlife photography in Samburu, you will get ten confident answers and at least three different opinions. That is because Samburu rewards photographers differently depending on what you are chasing: dust-lit elephant herds, clean green backdrops, or dense predator action […]