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The Young Rangers’ Club offers adventurous youngsters the chance to bring their wildest dreams to life – as they learn to survive the greatest wilderness on the planet.

The Young Rangers’ Club is available to children between the ages of 12-17 in several different packages for school groups, family holidays, or extended family groups. As well as special game drives, bush walks and cultural experiences, Rangers can undertake personal studies of a selected species – answering every question they’ve ever had about their favourite animal.

At the end of their stay, each Ranger will receive an official certificate as proof of their newly-honed ‘bush skills’.The aim of the course is to offer members an outdoors hands-on educational environmental program at our safari camps / lodges. It is available to allow the older child to be involved in activities part from just game drives therefore valuing their stay / holiday at the Heritage properties.

Our goal is to make children appreciate nature and hence the need to conserve it, taking care of the land, the wildlife and its people.  Normally the rangers’ course is run through a three-day period in which the ranger is involved in set activities throughout the day. 

At the end of the course, the ranger will receive a certificate.

Locations & Facilities.

The Young Rangers’ bases allow Rangers and their families to combine the very best of Kenya – from the game-rich grasslands of the Maasai Mara to the forested slopes around Lake Naivasha, the wild deserts of Samburu to the untamed wilderness of Kenya’s largest national park, Tsavo. Each property offers the finest safari accommodation, from luxurious tents in the middle of the Mara and Samburu wildernesses to rooms with one of the Earth’s grandest views at the Great Rift Valley Lodge.

At Siana Springs, the Young Rangers’ Club offers a broad variety of ‘hands-on’ facilities, such as our famous Animal Obstacle Course, which enables kids to mimic the movements of different mammals before studying the serious science of survival behind them.

The Rift Valley Lodge offers a host of more modern adventures, from horse rides and bicycle safaris to golf lessons and tours of the Rift’s ‘Great Lakes’, while at Voyager Ziwani, Rangers can join Tsavo’s famous rhino reintroduction programme, learn the workings of a modern African farm, or tour the World War II battlefields along the Tanzanian border.

And at Samburu Intrepids, the latest Rangers’ programme offers a host of rarer safari activities, from lessons in livestock herding and handling ancient weaponry to meetings with real-life magicians and hikes up a mystical sacred mountain.

Our Guides

Heritage’s Young Rangers’ Club benefits from one of the finest guiding pedigrees on the continent. Over the years, we have grown into one of Africa’s most reputable and highly qualified safari families, with a team of naturalists and cultural aficionados that is second to none.

Our head naturalists include:

• Sammy Maende, a marine conservationist with long experience running coastal conservation programmes;
• Daniel Kilonzo, a professional Kamba guide as famous for his humour as his award-winning bird knowledge;
• John Parmasau, Kenya’s most experienced and popular Maasai children’s guide.