About us
Ours is a local business
Founded in Nairobi, staffed by Kenyan guides, and built on the belief that the people who grew up next to these parks should be the ones showing them to you.
The story
Chase Wild Safaris began with one vehicle and a standing weekend booking to Naivasha. What changed everything was noticing that the people asking the best questions were not the ones flying in.
Kenyan families wanted short, affordable trips they could take four times a year. International travellers wanted the trip of a lifetime, planned properly, with honest advice about what they would actually see in the month they had chosen. Those are different businesses, and most operators run one of them badly while pretending to run both.
So we run two tracks. International safaris are priced in dollars, built around internal flights and private guiding, and sold with lodging tiers stated up front. Resident tours are priced in shillings at resident park fees, leave from Nairobi, and are short enough to repeat.
The guides
Who takes you out
Every guide on our team is Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association certified, and most grew up in or beside the areas they work. They are salaried, not commission-driven, which is why none of them will push you towards a curio shop or cut a game drive short.
- 14
- Full-time guides
- 11
- Land cruisers, all pop-top
- 2,400+
- Guests hosted since 2016
Values and impact
What the money does
Conservancy bed-night fees go directly to the Maasai landowners who set aside grazing for wildlife. We book conservancy camps wherever the itinerary allows, because that model is the only thing currently holding back subdivision of the land around the reserve.
We also fund two ranger salaries in Mara North, contribute to a secondary school bursary in Talek, and offset every internal flight we book. None of that makes a safari carbon-neutral. It does make it worth more to the people living with the wildlife than it costs them.
