How to combine Laikipia with Samburu, Masai Mara, Amboseli and other Kenya parks — multi-destination itineraries, logistics, and recommended routes.
A Laikipia safari does not feel like the rest of Kenya, and that is the whole point. The Masai Mara pulls in hundreds of thousands of people a year for the wildebeest crossing; Amboseli sells the elephants-under-Kilimanjaro postcard. Laikipia trades all of that for something scarcer — a quiet, close-up safari across a plateau that…
Most people planning a Kenyan safari have never heard of Laikipia, and that single fact tells you most of what makes it worth the trip. While the Masai Mara absorbs the crowds and the magazine covers, this 9,500-square-kilometre plateau between the snows of Mount Kenya and the rim of the Great Rift Valley quietly holds…