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5 days
Masai Mara · Lake Nakuru · Lake Naivasha
Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru & Lake Naivasha — 5 Daysfrom US$ 1,250
FIELD Nº 014
1°17′S · 36°49′E
NAIROBI · DAWN
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— 01° WHERE TO START
Begin where the birds are.
Feather Quest runs birding and safari tours across Kenya. We began by taking people out to see birds, and after enough mornings in the field we had logged over 800 species and counting. The map of Kenya is wider than most itineraries admit, and we spend our time in the parts other operators skip.
Travelers kept asking us to build the rest of the trip too, the game drives and the long routes between them, and that is how the quests grew. If you are not sure where to begin, that is the normal place to begin. Tell us roughly when you can travel and what you most want to see, the birds, the big cats, or a quiet first safari, and we will shape a route around it and send back real, itemized costs.
— WHERE WE GO
- 01Lake NakuruFlamingo shallows and rhino country
- 02SamburuThe dry, wild north
- 03AmboseliElephants below Kilimanjaro
- 04Masai MaraThe great river crossings, July to October
- 05Around NairobiGiraffe Centre, David Sheldrick, Karen Blixen, the National Museum
- 06Further outMeru, Tsavo and Lake Naivasha
Every route is small, capped at twelve travelers, and led by a local guide who is from the place you are standing in.
— 02° SIGNATURE
Quests, slowly
chosen.
Carefully curated journeys. Each one walked twice by our team before you. Each one led by someone who lives the place, not someone reading the script.VIEW ALL →
02
1 days
Gatura Greens Purple Tea Farm Tourfrom US$ 110
03
3 days
Samburu
Samburu National Reserve — 3 Days / 2 Nightsfrom US$ 640
04
1 days
Kiambethu Tea Farm Tourfrom US$ 100
— 03° THE FIELD GUIDE
12 places,
one country.
From the savannah at dawn to the museums in the city, the parks we keep coming back to and the sanctuaries that earn their place in our routes. The lines between them are dotted because the best parts happen between them.
- 01AmboseliNational Park
- 02David Sheldrick Wildlife TrustSanctuary
- 03Girrafe CentreSanctuary
- 04Karen Blixen MuseumMuseum
- 05Lake NaivashaNational Park
- 06Lake NakuruNational Park
- 07Masai MaraNational Reserve
- 08MeruNational Park
- 09Nairobi National ParkNational Park
- 10National MuseumMuseum
- 11SamburuNational Reserve
- 12Tsavo East & WestNational Park
FIELD NOTE Nº 14
— ON SLOW TRAVEL
— ON SLOW TRAVEL
— 04° THE WHY
We started Feather Quest because the trips we kept booking were the ones nobody was selling: the long lunches, the wrong turns, the guide who became a friend.
Every quest is led by someone local, not flown in. Every group caps at twelve. Every itinerary is a draft until the morning of, because weather and people are not algorithms.
— 05° THE PROMISES
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Small groups
Twelve travelers maximum. A single van. A guide who learns your name on day one.
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Locally led
Every quest is led by someone who grew up there. They earn a fair wage that stays in the region.
III
Slow itineraries
We build in margin. Time to nap, time to wander, time for the unplanned tea.
Lena Marchetti
SAMBURU, KENYA · 2025
On day six our guide turned the van off the road and said, “I want to show you something nobody books.” We ate chapati and stew with his cousin's family for three hours. That was the trip.
03 / 24
One letter. One Sunday a month.
The Dispatch.
A field note from wherever we are. New quests, sometimes. A photograph and a paragraph, always.
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