Every couple who calls us asks some version of the same honeymoon safari splurge vs save question: how much should we actually spend on this trip? The honest answer is that a Kenya honeymoon safari can cost anywhere from $250 a night to over $3,000 a night, and the difference often has nothing to do […]
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 […]
Every year a parent emails us asking the same question. “Is the Masai Mara malaria-free? We’re traveling with a toddler and I don’t want to give her antimalarial tablets.” Here’s the honest answer. The Mara sits at 1,500 to 2,100 meters, which keeps mosquito numbers lower than the coast, but it is not malaria-free. Doctors […]
If your first Kenya trip was the Masai Mara and maybe a few days in Amboseli, you saw the classics. Lions on a kill, wildebeest crossing a river, Kilimanjaro floating behind the elephants. It is a good trip. It is also, in a way, the easy trip. A Laikipia conservancy safari repeat visitors choose for […]