Dexter Kariuki is a private safari guide based in Nairobi. He guides across Kenya personally, and plans trips into Tanzania and Uganda with local partner guides he trusts. No agency, no call centre: just him.
Most people who book a safari through an agency meet a different guide at every stage: one at the airport, another in the Mara, someone else again for the second half of the trip. Dexter works the other way round. The person who answers your first message is the person who plans the route, meets you in Nairobi and drives every game drive in Kenya.
Almost twenty years of guiding means knowing which waterholes hold in a dry August, how the season is moving the herds this year, and which camps still feel personal rather than processed. It also means being honest when the timing isn’t right, and saying so before you book.
KPSGA silver level, first-aid training, English.
11 days Dexter's own hand-picked circuit through five of Kenya's most distinct landscapes — Ol Pejeta, Lake Nakuru, the Masai Mara, Lake Naivasha, and Amboseli — hosted by him in person, once a month, for a small group only.
14 days Samburu's wild north and the Masai Mara's big-cat plains with Dexter, then six barefoot nights on Diani's white sand. A slow, two-week Kenya safari and beach holiday with no rushing anywhere.
15 days Kenya's three great safari landscapes, from Samburu's arid north to the Mara's plains and Amboseli's elephants under Kilimanjaro, then four slow days on the Swahili island of Lamu. The definitive fly-in.
Tell Dexter where you're hoping to go and when. You'll be talking to him directly, not a booking desk.
It's in Nairobi Dexter replies usually within a day