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Fix the month and the length
These two settle most of the rest. The month decides which regions are dry, where the herds are likely to be and what a bed costs that week. The number of days decides how many regions you can reach without spending the trip in a vehicle, and Kenya is separated by escarpments, deserts and several hundred kilometres of road. The destination guides group the country the way it actually divides, which is the quickest way to see what fits beside what.
Decide what kind of trip it is
A game drive, a mountain, a coral reef, a soda lake and a Swahili stone town are different holidays with different seasons, costs and rhythms, and they rarely mix well inside a short trip. Things to Do in Kenya sorts them into families and says what separates them, and the attractions index covers the individual sights, each filed under the place that contains it.
Send one enquiry
Once you know the month, the length and roughly the budget, open a safari that fits and write to the operator who runs it. Browse the safaris by park, activity or length.
The planning guides
Three of the questions that come up before every Kenyan trip have guides of their own. Getting around Kenya covers flights, roads, the Nairobi to Mombasa train and the transfer rules that decide how many regions a trip can reach. Kenya travel requirements sets out the entry authorisation, the vaccination certificate rule and the customs limits, each taken from the issuing authority and dated. Planning a migration safari deals with the one trip that is planned around a probability rather than a place.
How an enquiry works
This site is a marketplace. It lists safaris sold by independent tour operators and it does not run, book or sell any of them. There is no fee to you, nothing is booked here, and no payment passes through this site.
Sending one
Open the safari you are interested in and use the Enquire button on that page. Your message reaches that operator with the trip and your details attached, so they can come back with real dates and a real quote rather than a brochure.
What to tell them
Operators answer far more precisely when an enquiry includes your rough travel dates or the month you are aiming for, how many days you have on the ground, how many people are travelling and their ages, what you most want to see or do, and the kind of accommodation you prefer with a rough budget if you have one. Working through the three steps above is the quickest way to arrive at those answers before you write.
What comes back
An outline itinerary, a note on what has to be reserved early, and a breakdown of what is and is not included. Park and reserve entry fees are set by the authority that runs each place rather than by the operator, so ask whether they are inside the quoted figure or outside it. Everything after that, including the quote, the booking and any payment, is between you and the operator.
Contacting the site
For anything about the site itself, a listing that looks wrong, or an enquiry that went unanswered, use the contact page. For questions about a particular safari, contact the operator who sells it, through that safari’s page.