Meet the Kenya Safari Club

Our history

In 1928 our father and grandfather Rodolf Langer came to Kenya as a specialist in coffee cultivation. He emigrated to Guatemala in 1923 as an agronomist and learned to grow coffee there. A friend brought him to Kenya to start growing coffee in the area around Kitale, now Moys-Bridge. In addition to coffee, he also introduced modern agriculture. The latest machines were imported, which at the time were the Lanz Bulldogs and the then-new invention of the disc plow.

In 1951 our uncle Bernhard Grzimek came to Africa for the first time to Tangajika, today Tanzania. He had accepted a job to count the animals during the great migration in Tanzania and Kenya. An airplane was purchased so that the animals could be counted from the air. He was the director of Frankfurt Zoo and already had a lot of experience with wild animals. After the film was released, he was regularly on television and told his animal stories. He was a conservation pioneer in Germany and a national park initiator in Kenya. Bernhard Grzimek used his popularity throughout his life to promote conservation and the protection of the natural habitats of wild animals.

In 1969, Bernhard Grzimek became the first Federal Government Commissioner for Nature Conservation (1969-73) and called for a nationwide nature conservation law. He was also a co-founder of WWF Germany, the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND), and President of the German Nature Conservation Association (DNR). Together with Hubert Weinzierl, he provided crucial initial support for the first German national park, the Bavarian Forest, which was officially founded in 1970. Together with Horst Stern, he founded the Ecology Group, which saw itself as the German version of the Club of Rome.

The Serengeti and Masai Mara animal parks were to be reduced in size and provided with roads. He then campaigned for the preservation of the parks and needed a lot of money for the research work. He came up with the idea of making an animal film. The result was the first world-famous animal film 'No place for wild animals' in 1956, which won an Oscar. It was the first film to expose big game hunting which had been very respected until then. It was the first film to make animal protection socially acceptable. Another film, Serengeti Must Not Die, in 1959, finally brought the breakthrough. He was the best-known animal rights activist in Germany and was featured on German television twice a week and has been a wildlife educator ever since.

In 2001 the physicist and inventor Hans Langer founded the Feria Tour AG focusing on outbound tourism to East Africa and the Seychelles. Ten years later he acquired the resort Temple Point in Watamu, Kenya. Since then high-quality safari experiences, diving, and kite surfing have been the main drivers of our experiences and expertise in Kenya.