About
Who we are, and how we are paid
Both worth knowing before you take planning advice from anyone, including When to Visit Kenya.
What this site is
When to Visit Kenya is an almanac. We built it because "when should we go?" is the question that decides an itinerary, and because most of the answers online pick a month and sell it. Kenya has twelve months, each with a real trade attached, and we would rather set out all twelve than push you towards August.
We are not a safari operator. We do not own camps and we do not drive the vehicles.
Who arranges the safaris
When you send an enquiry it goes to Nomad Africa, our partner travel agency in Kenya. They build your itinerary, price it, hold the bookings, take the payments and look after you on the ground from the airport pickup to the flight home.
It is one partnership, not a marketplace. We do not put your enquiry out to a panel of operators and we do not pass your details to anyone else.
How we are paid
If you book a trip through an enquiry that started here, Nomad Africa pays us a commission. You pay no more than you would going to them directly — camps hold rate parity, so the commission comes out of the agency’s margin, not your price.
That is the whole commercial model. We think you should know it before you read anything else on the site.
The rules we write to
- No invented reviews. If you see a testimonial here, a real person wrote it and gave us permission to publish it with their name.
- No invented statistics or credentials. We do not claim licences, memberships, awards or numbers we cannot document.
- No promises about animals. Nobody can guarantee a river crossing or a leopard, and any site that implies otherwise is selling.
- Ranges, not fake precision. Where we publish costs they are clearly marked as indicative planning ranges. Your quote is the exact number.
- We say when something will not work. If your budget does not reach what you are picturing, or your dates are wrong for what you want to see, that goes in the first reply.
Part of a network
We publish a family of specialist Kenya guides, each going deeper on one subject than a single site could. This one is When to Visit Kenya: The safari almanac. These are the ones that sit closest to it:
- Kenya Safari Planner — The full planning hub: parks, seasons, itineraries, costs and how to put a Kenya trip together.
- Great Migration Kenya — Month-by-month on the migration in the Mara, and how to plan around the river crossings.
- Kenya Safari Cost — What a Kenya safari actually costs, line by line, and where the money really goes.
- Masai Mara Camps — How the Mara’s camps and conservancies differ, and which one suits how you want to travel.
They share this partnership and this editorial standard, and they link to each other wherever a question genuinely belongs on one of the others rather than here.
More from our Kenya guides
Our other Kenya guides
Each of these is a focused guide we publish. Same Kenya specialist behind every enquiry.
Ready to turn this into a real itinerary?
Send us your dates, who is travelling and roughly what you want to spend per person per night. Our Kenya specialist comes back within 24 hours with a plan built around them and a costed quote.