If “African safari” is a single image in your head, that image was probably Kenya. The Masai Mara is where wildebeest cross the river, where lions hunt at golden hour, where Maasai herders share the plains with the Big Five. Amboseli’s elephant herds parading in front of Kilimanjaro is among the most photographed scenes in Africa, and Samburu adds species reticulated giraffe, Grevy’s zebra, gerenuk, Beisa oryx  that you’ll see almost nowhere else.

Beyond the headline parks, Kenya offers astonishing diversity. Lake Nakuru’s soda-water shores host pink flamingo flocks plus white and black rhinos. Tsavo East and West make up the country’s largest park, with red-dust elephants and the Mzima Springs. The Aberdares and Mount Kenya rise into highland forest. And the entire south-east coastline Diani, Watamu, Lamu delivers powder-white beaches and reef-protected swimming, perfect for the post-safari wind-down.

BLS Safaris uses Wilson Airport light-aircraft transfers throughout, so you spend days in parks rather than on roads  and our Kenya itineraries pair seamlessly with Tanzania’s Serengeti or Uganda/Rwanda gorillas for once-in-a-lifetime multi-country trips.