About Nanyori Experiential
We don't sell safaris. We design them.
A Nairobi studio of safari designers crafting private journeys across Kenya and Tanzania — one traveler, one designer, one journey at a time.
Our promise
“Every Nanyori journey should feel like it could only have been written for you — because it was.”
We believe a safari is not a product you pick from a shelf. It is a story that deserves an author — someone who knows which camp the leopards pass at dusk, which airstrip the light falls into at seven, and which week the river crossings begin. That author should know your name, your pace, and the moments you refuse to leave without.
So we built Nanyori around a simple discipline: every journey is designed by one dedicated safari designer, from the first message to the final sundown. No call centres, no layers between you and the person drawing your route. When you write to us, a designer answers — usually within two hours during business hours.
How Nanyori began
Years in the field, journeys with a name.
Nanyori Experiential grew out of years spent in the field — guiding, hosting, and sitting around camp fires with travelers who kept saying the same thing: “we wish someone had told us this before we booked.” The camps were right, the wildlife was extraordinary, but the journeys felt assembled rather than imagined. Pacing was wrong. Transitions were rushed. The magic was there, but the thread that should have tied it together was missing.
So we became that thread. We began designing journeys the way we believed they should be designed — slowly, personally, and with the candor of a friend who has actually slept in the bed, eaten at the table, and waited with you for the light. The name comes from a phrase our travelers taught us: something made especially for you, not for everyone.
Today our studio sits in Nairobi — the gateway city of East African safari — within reach of Wilson airstrip and the morning flights that carry our travelers to the Mara, the Serengeti, and beyond. We are small on purpose. Every designer here has driven these routes, walked these conservancies, and argued over itineraries at midnight to make a single day better.
“The best journeys are not assembled. They are composed.”
What we hold to
Four promises behind every journey.
Designed, never templated
No two Nanyori itineraries are alike. We start from a blank page and your way of traveling — the camps, routes, and pacing follow from there.
Field-tested, always
We recommend only what we have experienced ourselves. If we haven't slept in the camp or walked the conservancy, we won't put you there on faith.
Honest counsel
We will tell you where to splurge, where to save, and when to change the plan — even when it means a smaller journey than you first imagined.
Present throughout
Your designer stays a message away from the first inquiry to your flight home — and the itinerary bends when the wild does.
Let's design your journey.
Tell us how you dream of East Africa. There is no obligation — only a conversation with someone who knows every camp.