Our Story
Safari Guide’s Camps
Zebra Plains Collection was founded by Alfred Korir in 2016 a seasoned professional safari guide. After several years of safari guiding and managing of some Africa’s finest lodges in Kenya and Tanzania Alfred decided to start his own safari camp so that he can offer his guests the best of Maasai Mara, a place where he was brought up by his father who worked in Mara for almost two decades as a chef in one of the Camps. It is his father who introduced him to Mara at his very early age of ten.
Alfred is considered as one of the best guides in Mara having second highest level of guiding in Kenya Silver, from KPSGA and also FGASA Level 2 and Dangerous game guiding (DG) qualifications from South Africa. When he is not on safari or hosting guests Alfred is often found busy making his camps looks better, he loves upgrading all the camps all the time. Alfred’s designed, managed construction and did all decors of all the camps, he seems to have learned all this from previous places of work and extensive travels in East and Southern African Countries.
He is also into Conservation where he is one of the founding member camps in Mara Ripoi Conservancy where he operates premium luxury tented lodge; Lalashe Mara Ripoi Camp a sister and partner camp to Zebra Plains Collection. The collection as well recently joined Lemek Conservancy through premium luxury Camp Zebra Mara Lemek where he will play another role in conservation as well.
At the end of the year 2025 he managed to open a luxury camp in Amboseli, Praro Amboseli which it is located in Private Conservancy (35,000 Acres). We are proud to say that through payment of Monthly leases and employment of locals by Praro Amboseli Camp a very important corridor linking Amboseli and Tsavo ecosystem which it as well serves as a dispersal area for Amboseli wildlife has been protected.
Investment in Privately Owned Community Concessions
All our safari camps and lodges are built in private concessions that are adjacent to the Main Reserves/Parks or in Private Conservancies, the land belongs to the community and we pay Monthly, Quarterly or annual fixed land leases/rates and (OR) bed night fees of USD.15 per guest per night into the land owners. Choosing to stay with us means you are leaving a positive impact in Maasai Land through Zebra Plains collection of Camps and Lodges. The space that we secure from community gives us opportunity to go on walking safaris, do some sundowners/bush breakfasts or bush lunches and even game drives in the bigger conservation areas that we are partner camps. We do pay leases as well in some wildlife Corridors thus Conservation of Wildlife and their much-needed space.