Kicheche Camps

Name: Kicheche Camps
Address: P. O Box 15236, Nairobi, 00509, KE
Telephone: +254736888055
Price range: $$$
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Exclusive African safaris in Kenya’s private, prime wildlife conservancies from four small eco camps Travel company

16/04/2025

Spot of the Week - Rock Stars

Dickson is one of those quiet and effective Titans that can seemingly create alchemy from almost anywhere in Mara North Conservancy.

Natito plus one was his quarry and naturally enough he found them playing at the foot of an escarpment providing an ecstatic early elixir to Andreas and Sarah - no strangers to Bush Camp, or indeed leopards.

After this early cameo they vanished up the hill having grown seemingly dismayed by other vehicles arriving. These feckless flakes soon left and moments later both cats appeared again. Against the sky. On granite.

The antics resumed with an ebullient cub and slightly curmudgeonly mum. Thanks, you two, this is a marvellous gallery; one is exceptional - perhaps even a seven! (I'll lie down now.) Thanks, Dickson, also, gold spot.

Spot goes into the close season, see you in June.

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Kicheche Mara North
Mara North Conservancy (Masai Mara, Kenya)
Dickson Mako

Sarah Jeffery Photography
Andreas Immel Photography

04/04/2025

From Spanners to Safari: William’s Wild Journey.

Meet William, one of our exceptional silver-level expert guides at Kicheche Laikipia.

His journey is nothing short of inspiring—starting as a mechanic, then leading as head waiter, and now mastering the wild as a brilliant silver-level guide.

Guests appreciate his in-depth knowledge of wildlife, warm personality, and commendable guiding skills.

Beyond the safari, William is passionate about community empowerment, proudly serving as ambassador. He finds joy in mentoring young scholars from Wathituga Secondary School, inspiring the next generation with knowledge and opportunity.

Join William for an elevated safari where nature, adventure, and conservation come together.

14/03/2025

Full moon party 🎉
Happy Friday! Giraffe 🦒 on the move under an amazing sunset.

Naboisho

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📍Kicheche Valley, Naboisho

11/03/2025

Spot of the Week - Remember
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Whether a tiny calf gambolling after mother, lumbering bull or breeding herd, NO-ONE forgets their first elephant. They don't forget either.

Talking of not forgetting, bit more detail about Wednesday October 15th. Evening. Royal Geographic Society. Dress code, anything with Kicheche in it. If possible.
Invite details soon.

Mara Elephant Project

10/03/2025

Wild O'Clock

Good morning from Kicheche Mara North with the River Pride bosses Lenkoe and Saningo.

📍Kicheche Mara North
Tinka Jimmy
Mara Predator Conservation Programme

08/03/2025

We had Moniko, Enkuyanai, Oldikdiki prides , but today we celebrate International Women's Day with our favourite Bush pride, a force of nature : From Left: Gladys, Peninnah, Sheila, Branice, Milly and Eva.

22/02/2025

Spot of the Week - Tuck Shop

We made quite a lot of our 25th anniversary last week (tickets available soon), but NEVER in 50 years, let alone 25 would we expect to see something like this, appropriately featuring a mongoose.

Needs little prose: an albino mongoose with its mother. Now, in itself, this is the pangolin/zorilla carat value. Ironically, despite its rarity, it is also conspicuous, and this has proved its downfall.

Imagine Alison Tuck's joy at discovery then turning to dismay as it met its downfall.

In any often evolving avian top ten, the largest of eagles, the martial, will invariably feature. This monster sat high on its acacia throne, with a huge field of vision and this bright morsel proved irresistible.

Getting the images in the frame was remarkable as Alison had never seen this before, and if Bernard had never seen it, it'd never happened before.

Top work, the pair of you ... all the white stuff.

📍Kicheche Valley Naboisho
Guide Bernard Soit
#📷 Tuck

20/02/2025

Huge Congratulations to our co/founder Paul Goldstein.

Five Star Meal

I am very proud to have won the gold medal in the World Nature Photography Awards. Black and white is not normally my metier but this one screamed that format. Good guiding, good gambling, typical of Kicheche's Patrick Koriata - asante mwalimu Patrick.

📍Kicheche Bush Olare

Black and White ( #📷 )

15/02/2025

Kicheche@25

The first spot of the week was scribbled in a Moleskine notebook before being faxed to London. It involved lions, mentioning that they were just close enough to camp for our tallest staff member (of only six), Lenye, to see them. Lenye is still with us.

Twenty-five (25) years on, Paul and Greg, the founders, look a little older now; anyone would. With 170 staff and thousands of livelihoods depending on these four camps, they show no signs of hanging up their binoculars. They are just as determined to keep Kicheche at the vanguard of sustainable tourism in the community conservancies they helped establish, quite literally in this for the long game.

At ten years, Lenkume – one of the ‘Kicheche Six’ – accepted his long service award before turning to all the staff and declaring: ‘Ten years still makes me a kijana (young boy)... this is not something to brag about yet. I will talk if I’m still here at 25 years.’

It was quite the soliloquy, and he is still here, and he is talking. What’s more, his son is now working with him at Mara Camp too, joining the Kicheche family.

Are we going to celebrate? You bet we are, throughout 2025, culminating on October 15th in London.

The evening will feature bitings, sundowners, and rare and roar entertainment as we mark 25 years of wilderness awakenings. Oh, and we need you there... all of you. Put it in your diary. Now.

📍Kicheche Camps

Mara North Conservancy (Masai Mara, Kenya)
Mara Naboisho Conservancy
Olare Motorogi conservancy-Official
Ol Pejeta Conservancy

14/02/2025

Your first Kicheche kiss is one you never forget.

📍Kicheche Laikipia
Peter Kariuki

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P. O Box 15236
Nairobi
00509

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+254736888055

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Our Story

Our Passion

Wildlife numbers have declined dramatically throughout Africa over the last few decades. The primary cause is not poaching or hunting but habitat loss which is largely driven by a growing human population competing for resources hence the critical need for Conservancies.

The creation of them has enabled the protection of the habitat whilst providing an important revenue stream for the landowning communities in addition to jobs and security, all funded by tourism, plus social welfare projects funded by donors. All Kicheche camps are located inside Conservancies. Our founder is the chairman of Olare Conservancy and like his staff, swallowed the ethic whole about these precious parcels of land and wildlife havens.

Our Founders

Kicheche founders Greg Monson & Paul Goldstein celebrated the Millennium around a campfire in the Masai Mara unaware that six months later they would be launching their first camp on the nearby Lemek Plains. Their vision was to provide authentic safari experiences by creating a team of outstanding guides and encouraging guests to spend as much time in the field as possible.

Paul’s skills, success and enthusiasm in the guiding and photographic realm led to more and more photographers (both professional and amateur) choosing Kicheche as their preferred destination in Kenya. Paul, based in the UK, continues to lead photographic trips all over the world with his passion for capturing the natural world at its finest decidedly undimmed. His favorite destination is, naturally enough, still the Mara Conservancies.

Greg, based in Kenya, runs the operation and has achieved two of his major objectives to date a) to create an all Silver Guiding Team at Kicheche and b) the establishment of 3 stunning conservancies across the northern Mara landscape.

They both still somehow get on. They both still support Tottenham.

Our People

The journey, with a loyal band of incredible employees, has resulted in the establishment of four camps and more importantly created a marker in standards of how to operate safaris with integrity and create transformative experiences for many thousands of guests over the years.

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