Karisia Walking Safaris

30/06/2025

When human mumbo jumbo gets you down, you need to get some of this.

28/06/2025

Safari is the ultimate mental escape.

25/06/2025

This is Badfoot. We always recognize his bad limp when we see him in person but also his tracks that show his distinct injured foot . He is one of 2 bosses of our local pride and he sustained his injuries to his foot long ago. We even suspect that one of his eyes is non functional. Despite his war wounds, he is actually a quite polite lion. We run into him regularly on Gamedrives and on foot. He usually makes a grunting growl and pushes on away from us when we’re walking but poses nicely like a Mara lion with vehicles.

24/06/2025

Another great day guiding climbing with our friends and neighbors at . Super fun on super rocks in a stunningly beautiful conserved landscape.

09/06/2025

Breakfast with friends, family and Giraffes.

27/05/2025

In May we guided a team from Save The Rhinos who made a 100km crossing of Laikipia to raise money for Rhino range expansion in Kenya. They completed the mission without incident celebrating their achievement at Laragai on Borana. Thanks to all the ranches that participated and helped, including Sosian, Ol Donyo Lemboro, Chololo, Oljogi, Loldaiga, Ol Naishu, and Borana.

07/05/2025

A helicopter tour of the northern Rift Valley is beyond description for multiple exceptional reasons. The geological reasons though alone are beyond the beyond and evoke some heavy deep time appreciation all within features whose beauty are also beyond the beyond. Read more about the geological features of a heli tour to the northern rift at the link below:

A recent helicopter trip up the Rift Valley with our friends at Tropic Air was beyond my ability to verbalize or utter, especially on landing, in the moments after each flight.  The beauty exceeded the words or the brain and I struggled to make more than enthusiastic grunts and fist pumps w

28/04/2025

A beautiful Narina’s Trogon we found recently near the canopy walk in the Ngare Ndare Forest.
Got a birdy friend? Send them to us. We were born birdy.

24/04/2025

Mt Kenya at her best.

19/04/2025

Catching trout in style with and

09/04/2025

What a pleasure to witness tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Lesser Flamingos nesting on Lake Natron . Later in the season those numbers can increase to 2.5 million birds, a very large percentage of the total population of the species. The closest relatives of Flamingos are the Grebes and after that Pigeones, Doves and Sandgrouse. These species though split from the flamingos around the time of the meteor that wiped out the Non-avian Dinosaurs. When organisms exist at the end of long evolutionary trees then their own DNA is far more unique than that of organisms with closer living relatives. The Flamingoes, of which there are only 6 species worldwide, are not only the only members of their family, Phoenicopteridae but also an entire Order, the Phoenicopteriformes. This does not just signify their unique adaptions, it also points to their remarkable conservation value. A soda ash factory that was once proposed for Natron was an enormous threat to the Lesser and Greater Flamingos as well as many other important wading species. Thankfully the project was moved elsewhere but threats will always remain. Bird Flu comes to mind. Let’s celebrate Flamingos, not only their unique looks but also their very special place within Earth’s rich Biological history.

06/04/2025

The Original Safari was a Walking Safari.