Head Guides and Spotters

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HEAD GUIDES AND SPOTTERS

All Rekero’s guides are qualified members of the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association and are fully trained in first aid. Each year they undergo training and placements of which the most recent will be an exchange programme with Sabi Sabi in South Africa. They are widely recognised as among the best in the Mara and right across Kenya. So more than two decades after Ron Beaton recognised that your safari was only ever going to be as good as your guide it is something that continues to be taken very seriously.

Dickson Ngashar Ole Keretu

I have been working as a guide at Rekero Camp since May 2006. Prior to that I was at The Koyaki Guiding School learning some of the skills which have formed the basis of my guide work so far. I am newly married and do not have any children yet. I got married in June 2006. One of my favourite things to do as a guide is to explain to clients about the great migration. I am very proud of being Maasai. I also love the scenery and landscapes of The Masai Mara as well as the vast amount of different species of game. One of my hopes for the future is that a balance can be struck between tourism and nature – a difficult task today as The Mara is so popular. I also hope that as my experience as a guide increases it will help me to be part of the conservation effort. I consider an area of expertise for me is my knowledge of The Masai culture. One of my visions is that safari guides and management from camps in The Mara can join forces and form an eco-friendly team to concentrate on keeping The Mara clean and tidy and regulating the development of tourism in The Mara.

John Kaelo

I grew up very close to Rekero and started my working life as a teacher at the local school. I have now been at Rekero for eight years. I am married with three children aged between three and six years, two girls and a boy. The part I enjoy most about guiding is meeting different guests and telling them about the different species of wildlife found here in the Mara, the animals I believe to be my area of expertise. The guests are always nice and ready to accept the knowledge that I pass on to them. I am glad that the Mara is now universally acknowledged the seventh new wonder of the world and will do everything I can to protect it.

Risa (Spotter)

I joined Rekero camp in April 2006, at the time a sister camp was being started and I worked there as a night watchman before I joined the guiding team as a spotter. I have a little boy and have been married since 2006 to one wife (so far). The Interaction with guests and the amount of information I get from them amazes me and I enjoy that a lot. I like the Masai Mara because it is my home and as they say, East or West home is the best! The abundance of game makes me like this area too. I aspire to work longer at Rekero to get an income to educate my children as it will open opportunities for them. My area of expertise is the ability to search for game.

Rakita (Spotter)

I have been working at Rekero from when it begun almost 30 years ago. I got married almost 20 years ago and I have 11 children from two wives. Guiding/spotting has given me an opportunity to relate with guests and the guides and I enjoy hearing about the different cultures. I’ve been brought up in the Mara and when it was first marked out for conservation we thought it would be the end of livestock. Now I’m earning a living out of it, which I enjoy. I’m essentially a bushman and so bush craft and tracking are my areas of expertise. My future aspiration is to educate my children and I would like to see Rekero excel in all fields and prosper.