What to Wear on Safari in Kenya — The Complete PP Wardrobe
What to Wear on Safari in Kenya — The Complete PP Wardrobe
What to wear on safari in Kenya — the Masai Mara, earth tone palette, game drives, lodge dinners.
Kenya is East Africa's most established luxury safari destination — the Masai Mara, with its unparalleled concentration of wildlife and its twice-yearly wildebeest migration, the Amboseli with Mount Kilimanjaro as its backdrop, the Laikipia plateau's private conservancies, the coast at Malindi and Watamu. The safari wardrobe is specific: natural, earth-toned, practical, and appropriate for the significant temperature variation between the cold dawn game drive and the warm midday hours.
The safari colour palette. Earth tones, warm naturals, and khaki are the standard safari wardrobe colours — not for camouflage (modern safari vehicles and walking distances mean this is rarely a practical concern), but because they connect to the landscape, they do not attract insects in the way vivid colourways can, and they are widely accepted as the visual language of the safari context. PP earth tone and warm natural colourways — Oatmeal, Warm Natural, Beige Cream — are the correct PP choices for the safari.
“The Masai Mara's temperature variation is significant — cold dawns and hot middays. A PP linen shirt in an earth tone as the morning layer, worn throughout the day as the temperature rises, is the correct practical safari choice.”
— Pieter Petros, founderFor the game drives. The dawn and dusk game drives — temperatures in the Masai Mara and Laikipia can reach 10 degrees or below at dawn and 30 degrees or above by midday. A PP linen shirt in a warm earth tone as the mid-layer over a base layer for the cold dawn drive; the same shirt as the primary garment as the temperature rises through the morning. Linen trousers rather than linen shorts for the game drive — full leg coverage is practical in the bush context and many safari guests find it more comfortable in the open vehicle.
For the luxury lodge. The tented camps and lodges of the Masai Mara — &Beyond, Four Seasons Safari Lodge Serengeti area, Singita, Angama — produce the evening occasion of a bush dinner around the fire. A warm earth tone PP linen shirt with linen trousers for the lodge dinner.
The women's wardrobe. A PP women's linen shirt in a warm earth tone with linen trousers for the game drive; the same combination for the lodge evening.
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