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El Karama Lodge: an intimate, award-winning, family-centred safari adventure in Laikipia, Kenya Exceptional privacy and warm hospitality.

El Karama Lodge is an award-winning, intimate and family-friendly safari lodge located on a 14,000 acre private wildlife conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya. Tailor- made, private safari adventures including walking, game drives, night drives, horse rides, fly camping, family activities.

8 cottages including two exclusive use parts of camp, a large swimming pool, star light fire pits and salt licks to watch wildlife from inside the camp environs.

24/09/2026

In our wider region lives an endemic specie more rare than a Black Rhino. For the past 15 years Murray Grant has been contributing to the monitoring and understanding of the Mountain Bongo in this country. The story of the Mountain Bongo is a compelling one not just because of it’s secretive nature and elusive habits, but also because this animal can be regarded as an indicator specie of eco system health. Without the thick forests and bamboo layers of their habitat they cannot exist. When you support Bongo conservation in Kenya you support forests and vital woodland like Mount Kenya and the Aberdares. Habitat loss is the greatest threat to wildlife in Kenya today Murray Grant KWS El Karama Lodge, Laikipia

12/09/2026

Sharing our story with the next generation…being connected to the next generation of conservationists is part of how we give back in our space. Sharing our off grid technology, greener ways of operating and living as well as the specific ways in which our small business intersects with conservation and the practices that support wildlife and people through our work. Hosted by our wonderful team, this is something we love doing and which helps our community and our team to connect the dots. This week we invited over 80 school children from our region in partnership with The Leo Project (TLP) to learn about eco tourism, sustainability in business and careers in conservation El Karama Lodge, Laikipia El Karama Wild El Karama Wildlife Conservancy

09/09/2026

These two boys have settled in well since October when they first walked in. Read our newsletter for the full story. A new key species for El Karama and the culmination of 70 years of conservation and habitat enhancement and management and achieved up to this moment through sustainable small business alone. Our story at the lodge is just one part of the conservancy story but this is why we do what we do. So as the world around us ‘invests’ in wild spaces and more and more tourism companies crop up, remember to ask the questions as a consumer that count. Is the company you are supporting through your hard-earned dollars owned by people embedded in the landscape, does the lodge you are staying in spend its money in the local economy for food and other goods for that lodge, is the team working there from the local region, what proportion of the profits are fed back into the environment etc small is beautiful and impact has to be balanced against the gains El Karama Lodge, Laikipia El Karama Wild El Karama Wildlife Conservancy 📸 Murray Grant

07/09/2026

Terroir 💚💚💚 the idea that food carries qualities of the particular soil, climate, plants, and ecology of where it was produced. Luxury is the act of harvesting your food daily and eating it where it was grown. Here El Karama Lodge, Laikipia we think of this a core part of our value on your safari. Our food is grown with love and without chemicals right here. Guests can visit our beautiful shamba, they can pick fruit whilst walking around it as they learn own from our team about our intentional and holistic approaches to growing food. Your safari table does not have to be foreign or imported food that attempts to mimic something from elsewhere, it can creative and unique and honour heritage and local seasons, it can be full of the nutrients in the soil under your feet and be fresh from an hour before. Shamba love ❤️ today. From El Karama Lodge, Laikipia El Karama Wild

02/09/2026

Beautiful to see the Mother Elephants at the Waterhole waiting patiently for their little ones to sleep…so much of mothering is patience and that is true for the wild too 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘El Karama Lodge, Laikipia 📸 Murray Grant El Karama Wildlife Conservancy

29/08/2026

End of our peak season, end of our family time and back to school, but boy have our children had some fun and what an incredible team we have El Karama Lodge, Laikipia El Karama Wild they have made this season so so special@murraygrantbronzes Gratitude beyond measure 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪 El Karama Lodge, Laikipia El Karama Wild Murray Grant

27/08/2026

The lion are always active here and our guests see them most regularly of all the cats. They choose the deep valleys and luggahs to raise their young and then come out onto the more open tops of plains to teach them how to hunt. Yesterday the sky was clear blue and the moon full and far-away looking. The grass has yellowed now after several months of no rain and it rustles and crackles when the wind blows before dusk. I will never tire of watching these creatures as they lounge on termite mounds, slow blinking and yawning at last light. When they start to move there is a gradual momentum build as you watch and see them begin to think about the hunt. Our nights are filled with roars this week as the pride moves around the conservancy seeing the plentiful prey around them. Each morning we wonder what we will find and see, there is always something to wonder at, no day the same, no season a formula. This wild life that people come to visit is like nothing else in the world…there is no amount of AI that could generate the feeling and smell of dry grass, dust wind and gloaming light. These safaris - providing we resist the Western urge to bring all the accoutrements of comfort and allow the wild to pervade the Safari will always remain if these spaces remain… El Karama Lodge, Laikipia El Karama Wild

22/08/2026

We may be lucky enough to share this corner of Laikipia with lion, elephant, rhino, leopard and buffalo — but for us, your safari is about so much more than a checklist.

It’s our home grown food picked from the Shamba. It’s Long, unhurried days outside watching Elephant at the dam and experiencing freedom on foot, on horses and under canvas. It’s feeling that you are in a home being cared for by experienced people who know this land intimately. It’s the warmth and individuality that comes from staying somewhere that is still proudly owner-run that represents the vision and hopefulness of a family who are embedded in a landscape. Our offering is an extension of our values, our personalities and our culture and when you visit that is what you feel from the books on the shelves, the paintings on the wall and the hand carved, home spun nature of the place.

At El Karama, the wild isn’t something we take you out to see. It’s all around you, it is where we live and its how we connect to the world around us. Quiet, connected luxury in the heart of Laikipia El Karama Lodge, Laikipia and El Karama Wild on El Karama Wildlife Conservancy

14/08/2026

News of a lifetime in our latest newsletter- subscribe to find out more and check your inbox 🦏A vision, a landscape, a team, a family - some conservation stories write themselves and evolutions like these prove the value of the connected, protected landscapes that remain El Karama Lodge, Laikipia El Karama Wild El Karama Wildlife Conservancy

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