October 17th - 25 years on: Kicheche Safari Camps – a model for wildlife tourism?
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In the year 2000, two travel professionals with experience across Africa teamed up to create a safari camp that brings together nature, community, energy and inspiration in Kenya's Maasai Mara. A quarter-century on, my guest Greg Monson and his partner Paul Goldstein are still working their socks off to provide great travel experiences that support the community and preserve the environment.
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| 1:02.2 | Hello and welcome to today's Inventant travel podcast from me, |
| 1:06.0 | I'm on Friday the 17th of October. |
| 1:09.8 | And I am a Royal Geographical Society in London a very special event. |
| 1:16.2 | It's the 25th anniversary of Kichiche, which is a safari camp, indeed an enterprise like none other. |
| 1:26.1 | I see it as a fantastic fusion of enterprise, nature and of community. |
| 1:33.1 | But I want to hear more about it from one of the partners, Greg Monson. Greg, you're from New Zealand. |
| 1:40.7 | How on earth did you end up in Kenya? Well, it was a long, circuitous journey, |
| 1:45.6 | covering quite a bit of the globe, and I never saw myself ending up in Africa, but from the early |
| 1:50.6 | days I fell immediately in love with Kenya, and I subsequently moved there in 95, and never |
| 1:57.2 | looked back, never felt like leaving. And that led to us coming back 25 years ago now when we got underway. |
| 2:04.1 | You were there with Paul Goldstein, noted wildlife photographer, guide and friend of the podcast. |
| 2:11.4 | And I understand this all began at the millennium. |
| 2:15.3 | Exactly. |
| 2:15.9 | Round a campfire, a millennium. |
| 2:17.8 | We'd been on, I had guests on Safari, and I would join with some friends, including |
| 2:22.6 | Paul and his wife, Donna. |
| 2:23.9 | And we enjoyed fantastic time, riotous times with the Games of Baldadash among safaris. |
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