Our story
A small camp, kept beautifully.
Amani began, quietly, in 2014 — a single tented suite on a bluff of the Laikipia Plateau, built for the founder's own retreat. Guests followed. Then friends of guests. Then people who had been sent by someone who never spoke of it.
A decade later Amani is nine suites, a spa, a farm, a resident yoga teacher, and a small permanent team drawn largely from the surrounding communities. We have turned down partnerships and expansion many times. We remain small on purpose.
The land is held in a conservancy of 40,000 hectares. Elephants pass beneath the treehouse. The kitchen garden feeds the table. Twenty percent of every stay goes directly to community and conservation partners on the plateau. Guests often become custodians — that is by design, not by accident.
Founder
Yasmin Kariuki
On what Amani is for.
“I did not build Amani for people to see something. I built it so they could hear something — the version of themselves that had gone quiet.”
Trained in East Africa and Kyoto, Yasmin is a former hospitality director who left the industry to spend a year walking. Amani is what she made afterwards. She still greets nearly every guest herself.
The place
Laikipia Plateau, northern Kenya.
An hour by light aircraft from Nairobi, then thirty minutes across the plains by open vehicle. Amani sits at 1,900 metres — cool nights, warm days, and one of the greatest concentrations of wildlife left on the continent.
We open March through mid-December. We host no more than eighteen guests at any time.
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