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Kicheche Bush Camp
Kicheche Bush Camp
Kicheche Bush Camp
Kicheche Bush Camp
Kicheche Bush Camp
Kicheche Bush Camp
Kicheche Bush Camp
Kicheche Bush Camp
Kicheche Bush Camp
Kicheche Bush Camp

Reviews of Kicheche Bush Camp

Wildlife sightings and reviews

111 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Kicheche Bush Camp and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa

Wildlife sightings by our travellers
Starting in Feb-2019, 80 of our travellers have recorded their wildlife sightings at Kicheche Bush Camp.
Lion

100% success

Leopard

90% success

Cheetah

90% success

Wild dog

4% success

Buffalo

100% success

Elephant

100% success

Giraffe

100% success

Zebra

100% success

Spotted Hyena

99% success

Wildebeest

97% success

Hippo

97% success

Eland

88% success

Black Rhino

9% success

Striped Hyena

8% success

Pangolin

2% success

Aardvark

0% success

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Duration
Arrival date
Mr & Mrs R
Glos

"Kicheche Bush Camp review"

4 nights Arrived 1 Feb 2025
"Bush camp was much busier than laikipia with a number of boisterous return guests already there when we arrived. So it felt very different to the peace at laikipia. The tent was great. The food was rather better.

The sightings were great. More cats - we saw cheetahs and leopard as well as lions. Plenty of game. We shared the car and guide with two other couples over the course of our stay. So the experience was not quite so personal here.

Our guide, Josphat, really came into his own when the camp emptied towards the end of our stay. The slightest noise brought us fabulous early morning hyenas and lions. The merest twitch of a tail yards away brought us a beautiful leopard." See all these reviews: 10n in Kenya
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Good
Service:
Good
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Sightings Report

Buffalo

9 sightings

Cheetah

2 sightings

Eland

10 sightings

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

10 sightings

Hippo

10 sightings

Leopard

1 sighting

Lion

10 sightings

Spotted Hyena

10 sightings

Wildebeest

10 sightings

Zebra

10 sightings

Mr & Mrs K
Australia

"Kicheche Bush Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 19 Jan 2025
"Beautiful camp site. Excellent facilities, food & drink.

A fun Maasai welcome. Camp manager Dido very welcoming & our guides Patrick & Charles were amazing.

We thoroughly enjoyed a back of camp tour showing how everything operates behind the scenes.

The Bush Gin Bar on the rocks for our Sundowner one evening was a fantastic experience with a beautiful sunset & great campfire, where we met up with another group." See all these reviews: 15n in Kenya
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Black Rhino

Multiple sightings

Buffalo

10 sightings

Cheetah

Multiple sightings

Eland

Multiple sightings

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

Multiple sightings

Hippo

5 sightings

Leopard

1 sighting

Lion

5 sightings

Spotted Hyena

4 sightings

Wildebeest

10 sightings

Zebra

10 sightings

Ms J.
USA

"Kicheche Bush Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 19 Jan 2025
"This camp was a continuation of the Kicheche Laikipia experience.

More of the same wonder and five star service.

Read my review of the Kicheche Laikipia.

It provides a more varied wildlife experience to move around the Savanha." See all these reviews: 12n in Kenya
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Black Rhino

Multiple sightings

Buffalo

Multiple sightings

Cheetah

Multiple sightings

Eland

Multiple sightings

Elephant

Multiple sightings

Giraffe

Multiple sightings

Hippo

Multiple sightings

Leopard

Multiple sightings

Lion

Multiple sightings

Spotted Hyena

Multiple sightings

Wildebeest

Multiple sightings

Zebra

Multiple sightings

KC
USA

"Kicheche Bush Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 19 Jan 2025
"Loved this camp, had an amazing Maasai welcome (or perhaps just for Nancie)

Staff were so accommodating… food was even better and GLADYS even shared one of her recipes with me!

Really appreciated the tour of the ”back of the house” where we saw how the camp worked, use of solar and recycling etc

Dido was wonderful, I learned so much from our guide Patrick (who could teach a class anywhere,)

Loved the balloon ride and saw so many gorgeous animals," See all these reviews: 13n in Kenya
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Black Rhino

Multiple sightings

Buffalo

Multiple sightings

Cheetah

Multiple sightings

Eland

Multiple sightings

Elephant

Multiple sightings

Giraffe

Multiple sightings

Hippo

Multiple sightings

Leopard

1 sighting

Lion

Multiple sightings

Spotted Hyena

Multiple sightings

Wildebeest

Multiple sightings

Zebra

Multiple sightings

Mrs D.
USA

"Kicheche Bush Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 19 Jan 2025
"The accommodations were wonderful, as was the food. Dido was particularly charming. He was more than willing to help me with poop patrol - identifying the sources of various "piles" left along the paths. There was quite an assortment!
Yet again, the entire staff was talented, charming and genuine." See all these reviews: 13n in Kenya
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Black Rhino

10 sightings

Buffalo

10 sightings

Cheetah

1 sighting

Eland

10 sightings

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

10 sightings

Hippo

10 sightings

Lion

10 sightings

Spotted Hyena

10 sightings

Wildebeest

10 sightings

Zebra

10 sightings

Steve H
Cumbria

"Kicheche Bush Camp 25"

3 nights Arrived 12 Jan 2025
"As always, great camp, great wildlife, great people.

Fantastic experience again, with wonderful wildlife and great guiding." See all these reviews: 7n in Kenya
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Buffalo

10 sightings

Cheetah

3 sightings

Eland

10 sightings

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

10 sightings

Hippo

10 sightings

Leopard

4 sightings

Lion

7 sightings

Spotted Hyena

10 sightings

Wildebeest

10 sightings

Zebra

10 sightings

Nick_H
Herts

"Kicheche Bush Camp review"

5 nights Arrived 28 Dec 2024
"This was my second stay at Kicheche Bush Camp and I have already arranged my third.

It is a wonderful location within a stunning Conservancy. Dido and the team are outstanding and my stay was full of wonderful memories and experiences.

From being met upon arrival with my favourite drink, to the outstanding guiding and the amazing staff, Kicheche Bush Camp is a very special destination.
New Years Eve was full of joy and fund shared with my fellow guests.

As with all Kicheche properties this is your home away from home and it did not disappoint. The accommodation, hospitality, and food and drink are amazing.

I have stayed at all the Kicheche properties and they all have unique identifies whilst retaining the core values that make them such wonderful additions to any itinerary.
I cannot praise the lodge, staff, and my experience highly enough it and I return later this year." See all these reviews: 18n in Kenya
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Buffalo

10 sightings

Cheetah

2 sightings

Eland

10 sightings

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

10 sightings

Hippo

10 sightings

Leopard

1 sighting

Lion

10 sightings

Spotted Hyena

10 sightings

Wildebeest

10 sightings

Zebra

10 sightings

Mr S.
Clontarf

"Kicheche Bush Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 27 Sep 2024
"Another fabulous Kicheche camp ably run by Didi and Anne. If anything the tents are even larger. And the food was probably the best of the camps.

We only had two nights here. There was rain on the two afternoon drives that limited some of the wildlife views and we didn't have any good sunrises/sunsets for photos! We did thoroughly enjoy it though. I was expecting to see more wildlife and had set high expectations for photography given their description of the camp. The advertised specialised photography vehicle was not in use when we visited.

Charles was an excellent guide in the conditions and again was excellent at positioning me for photographs including thinking where to go early in the mornings hopeful of a sunrise setting.

At the outset I said I was hoping to get photos of leopard in a tree. He identified a location where he hoped a leopard would run later in the day, we waited for an hour and he fully delivered when a leopard appeared climbed up the tree, looked around and came back down. We drove through the bush to a great viewing point whilst a vehicle from another camp chose a more obvious location but where the tree was partly obscured by bushes.

We also had a great experience (in the rain!) following some lion hunting a buffalo and giraffe unfortunately abandoning without a chase!" See all these reviews: 14n in Kenya
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Buffalo

2 sightings

Elephant

6 sightings

Giraffe

Multiple sightings

Hippo

3 sightings

Leopard

Multiple sightings

Lion

5 sightings

Spotted Hyena

3 sightings

Wildebeest

4 sightings

Zebra

6 sightings

Ms. R
Canada

"Kicheche Bush Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 21 Sep 2024
"Best camp for comfy beds, huge hot shower, excellent excellent excellent (three excellent!) guides, engaging and caring staff and fabulous food. I wish I could have stayed longer.

Our time felt so short because we packed so much in, in the three days there.

I loved the tents. They were large with comfy beds and linens. The one thing I would change is have lounge chairs inside the tent that I can actually sit upright in...the ones they had were angled back to recline and you couldn't adjust them. The bathrobes fit. I am not a large person but the robes at Tanguila were for size teeny tiny people. The robes at Kicheche were super soft and fit well." See all these reviews: 12n in Kenya
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Buffalo

4 sightings

Cheetah

3 sightings

Eland

2 sightings

Elephant

5 sightings

Giraffe

5 sightings

Hippo

5 sightings

Leopard

2 sightings

Lion

4 sightings

Spotted Hyena

4 sightings

Wildebeest

10 sightings

Zebra

5 sightings

Mrs A. & Ms. K
Canada

"Kicheche Bush Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 21 Sep 2024
"Ahhh Kicheche... What can I say? I was so sad to leave. I was so totally happy at Kicheche.

Even knowing that lions and hyenas were wandering around not far away did not make me want to leave. I felt totally safe the whole time we were there.

Watching zebras, elephants, and giraffes out in the grasslands around the tents was very surreal. Our tent was one of the furthest away from the lodge and was just perfect. Brian did an excellent job of preparing our rooms at night...my hot water bottle lasted well into the next morning.

Staff were excellent. We felt very cared for including our water intake management! William was wonderful at mealtimes, and it was so nice to have mangers Dede (I hope spelled correctly) and Anne sit down with us at mealtimes to share our experiences with. They were very accomodating for food preferences and were happy to provide an alternative. The chefs were very knowledgable and the food was exemplary. Bush Breakfasts were perfect in every way from the fruit and yogourt to breakfast burritoes to excellent coffee!

Our game drive guides were also great. Charles and Patrick have such a great rapport and patience with the guests and staff, they made us all feel very safe and cared for. I would not hesitate to recommend them for any guiding.

Additional sightings: Coke's Hartebeast x 4; Jackals x 8; Bat-eared Fox x 1" See all these reviews: 13n in Kenya
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Buffalo

10 sightings

Cheetah

3 sightings

Eland

1 sighting

Elephant

9 sightings

Giraffe

10 sightings

Hippo

7 sightings

Leopard

2 sightings

Lion

7 sightings

Spotted Hyena

5 sightings

Wildebeest

10 sightings

Zebra

10 sightings

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