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Ask the people who’ve been there.

It was the advice in the 1998 letter, and it is still why writers call. Chip and Sandy talk about safari from the inside: the camps, the families who run them, and conservation that pays its own way.

Founded
Kenya, 1991, by Chip and Sandy Cunningham
Owned
By the family. Independent, no parent company
Home
Santa Barbara, California
Reach
Thirty-six countries, six continents
2008
OutsideA feature from the Australian bush (2008); OutsideGO, a travel partnership (2014); and “The Green Hills of Cunningham,” a profile of Sandy.
2007
Riviera Magazine“Camp It Up” — Campi ya Kanzi, Garonga and Nomad Tanzania.
T+L
Travel + LeisureSandy Cunningham, a trusted Travel + Leisure advisor on Africa, family and multigenerational travel.
 2024
Global Safari MagazineOur own masthead: trip reports, letters and stories from the field.

The founders

The two people to call.

Chip Cunningham
Chip CunninghamCEO & Co-Founder

Bush pilot, safari guide, sportsman, adventurer and conservationist. He flew game counts and anti-poaching missions in Kenya, and rebuilt ol Donyo from the ashes.

 Sandy Cunningham
Sandy CunninghamPresident & Co-Founder

Born in South Africa and raised in Rhodesia. A trusted Travel + Leisure advisor, known throughout the industry as one of the leading experts on Africa.
Owner-run campsWhy the small, family-run places matter, and how to find them: if we don’t know who owns it, we don’t send you there.
Conservation that pays its wayPeople, Planet, Profit, in that order, and the camp in the Chyulu Hills where they worked it out.
The Global Safari Awards™Judging camps the hard way, by staying in them. The 2026 winners ›

Writing a story? Interviews, photographs from the archive, logos and the founders’ story — ask and we’ll send the right files.

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Your chapter

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