About us

Our story

Two guides and a landcruiser

Wild Habitat Adventures began in 2014 with one vehicle and two guides who had spent a decade driving other companies’ itineraries. We knew where the animals were in February and where they were in September, and we were tired of routes written by people who had never sat in the Mara at 6am.

The first year was eleven trips. We now run a little over two hundred a year and we have deliberately not grown faster than we can guide. Every itinerary is still written by someone who has driven it.

We are a Kenyan company, registered in Nairobi, licensed by KATO, and we own our vehicles rather than subcontracting them. It costs more and it is the reason our breakdowns are rare and our guides stay.

Guide driving a safari vehicle through the savannah

What we are for

To put travellers in the right place at the right time with someone who can explain what they are looking at, and to leave the camps, guides and communities we work with better off than a cheaper operator would.

What makes us different

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KPSGA-rated guides only

Kenya grades its guides bronze through gold. We hire silver and above, pay accordingly, and they stay with us for years. Ask any operator what grade your guide holds; most cannot tell you.

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Our own vehicles

Nine Toyota Landcruisers we maintain ourselves, with charging points, a fridge, and a roof that actually opens. Nothing subcontracted at the last minute.

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One consultant, start to finish

The person who writes your itinerary is the person you email at midnight from the airport. No handover to an operations desk that has never read your file.

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We say no

If your dates and the migration do not line up, we will tell you rather than sell you the trip anyway. Several times a year that costs us a booking and keeps a reputation.

Ready when you are

Tell us what you want from East Africa

Send us your dates and a sentence about what you are hoping for. We reply within one working day with a route and a price.