Laikipia & Lewa

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On the high plateau between Mount Kenya and the Rift Valley, a patchwork of private and community conservancies has rewritten African conservation, and created Kenya’s most exclusive safari country in the process.

Highlights

Laikipia and Lewa hold East Africa’s healthiest black and white rhino populations alongside northern specialities: Grévy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, beisa oryx. With no park rulebook, the conservancies offer what reserves cannot: walking safaris, night drives, horseback and camel safaris, and visits to the anti-poaching teams your stay funds. Ol Pejeta, on the plateau’s edge, shelters the world’s last two northern white rhinos.

Best Time to Visit

Laikipia is rewarding year-round thanks to resident game; June to October and December to March are driest. It slots naturally between Nairobi and the Mara or Samburu.

Where to Stay

Segera Retreat is our Laikipia benchmark: art, wellness and 50,000 private acres.

Rhinos, walking and wilderness: our Laikipia Rhino Conservancies & Samburu journey covers it all, or explore every Kenya safari.