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Masai Mara National Reserve

The Masai Mara, the most famous of Kenya’s game reserves, has been called “the most magnificent wildlife theatre in the world”, and with good reason. Part of the same eco-system as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara hosts with it that great natural spectacle, the annual wildebeest migration.

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Masai Mara and Samburu

Featured itineraries

Discover Kenya Family Activity Safari

‘Discover Kenya’ is an adventurous alternative to a traditional driven safari, offering families a chance to escape the beaten path and explore on foot, by bike and by 4x4 the best that Kenya has to offer. Designed for holiday fun and not as a challenge, the 7-day itinerary is suitable for active families with children aged 10 and over, and can also be adapted to suit small groups and couples.

Destination

  • Kenya

Experience

  • Family Travel
  • Biking Holidays
  • Safari and Wildlife Holidays

Prices from £2190 pp

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Masai Mara Sleepout

This 4-night Masai Mara Sleepout offers you the ultimate romantic getaway. Spend a night in Serian Safari’s most intimate property, the Nest, a unique tree house with room for just two guests. This is a chance to experience the Masai Mara in quiet isolation – to completely immerse yourself in the serenity of the African bush.

Destination

  • Kenya

Experience

  • Honeymoons and Weddings
  • Safari and Wildlife Holidays

Prices from £3390 pp

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Rift Valley Lakes and Maasai Mara Eco-tour

A short, low-cost safari visiting Kenya's Maasai Mara and Lakes Nakuru and Naivasha, perfect as a standalone trip or as an extension to one of our Mount Kenya climbs.

Destination

  • Kenya

Experience

  • Family Travel
  • Safari and Wildlife Holidays
  • Safari and Wildlife Holidays

Prices from £1660 pp

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The Great Migration Fly-in Safari

This 8-day private safari is designed to get you as close to the Great Migration as possible, from both the Kenyan and Tanzanian sides of the border! Starting in the Mara, you’ll stay at the classic Bateleur Camp, before flying south to the Serengeti for 2 nights bush camping at the fabulous Serengeti Under Canvas, a luxury mobile camp that moves in conjunction with the migratory herds. A 2-night stay on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater follows.

Destination

  • Tanzania
  • Kenya

Experience

  • Honeymoons and Weddings
  • Safari and Wildlife Holidays

Prices from £5870 pp

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Kenyan Odyssey

Starting in Nairobi and ending on the shores of the Indian Ocean, this small group safari visits three diverse wilderness areas of Kenya: the lakes of the Great Rift Valley; the open plains of the Mara; and the undulating hills of Tsavo. This is a scheduled group safari accommodating 2-7 passengers and beginning in Nairobi every Sunday.

Destination

  • Kenya

Experience

  • Safari and Wildlife Holidays
  • Group Travel

Prices from £1538 pp

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Accommodation

Basecamp Masai Mara

Basecamp Masai Mara is an eco-safari camp situated on the banks of the Talek River, the natural border to the Masai Mara National Reserve.

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Cottar's 1920s

Cottar's 1920s Safari Camp is situated in its own private concession in the Masai Mara. Furnished to resemble a classic Victorian safari camp, it offers exclusivity in the heart of the Mara.

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Stay 4 nights, pay 3, at Cottar's 1920s

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Elephant Pepper Camp

Elephant Pepper Camp occupies a fine location in the northern Masai Mara. Built in the 1980s, it's one of the older camps in the area and has a classic safari ambiance.

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Entim Mara Camp

Tucked away in woodland on the edge of the Mara River, and just a short drive from the confluence of the Mara and Talek rivers, is the lovely Entim Camp. Each of this small, luxury camp's twelve elevated tented rooms has a view of the Mara River and the savannah beyond from its comfortable verandah.

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Governors' Camp

Governors' Main Camp is one of the oldest and best-located camps in the Masai Mara. It is also one of the biggest, and lacks the intimacy of the Mara's more exclusive camps.

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Il Moran Camp

Part of the Governors Portfolio, Il Moran Camp is a classic, permanent safari camp with a superb location in the heart of the Masai Mara. Much smaller than Governors' Main Camp, it caters more to honeymooners.

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Ilkeliani Camp

Ilkeliani is a permanent tented camp located by the Talek River, just outside the boundaries of the Masai Mara Game Reserve.

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Kicheche Bush Camp

Kicheche Bush Camp is one of the smallest camps in the Kicheche portfolio of luxury safari camps. It's a classic bush camp with a great location in a private conservancy of the Masai Mara.

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Kicheche Mara Camp

Kicheche Mara Camp is a tented bush camp designed in a classic style. It has a great location in the northern Mara plains, within a private conservancy and hence away from the crowds of the busy National Park.

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Little Governors' Camp

Little Governors' Camp is the sister camp to Governors' Main Camp, one of the Masai Mara's original safari camps. It is small and intimate, unlike its sister camp, and superbly located in the little visited Mara Triangle region.

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Mara Plains Camp

Mara Plains Camp is one of the Mara's finest luxury bush camps - a tiny, intimate camp with just seven guest tents, located in the privacy of the exclusive Olare-Motorogi Conservancy.

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Mara Rianta Camp

A medium-sized luxury lodge, Mara Rianta Camp is ideally situated in the northeast of the Maasai Mara Reserve, just outside the private Mara North conservancy, and directly overlooking the Mara River.

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Mara Springs

Mara Springs is a simple bush camp situated 3km from the edge of the Maasai Mara reserve, alongside the forested banks of Sekenani River–a prime game-viewing area at the foot of the Naunare Hills.

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Ngare Serian

Ngare Serian is one of the Masai Mara’s most intimate camps, with just four guest tents. It is located above the Mara River, in the private Mara North Conservancy, and is typically booked on an exclusive basis.

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Offbeat Mara Camp

Offbeat Mara is a small, semi-permanent bush camp located in the remote Mara North Conservancy, away from the crowds of the busy Masai Mara Game Reserve.

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Ol Seki Mara

Ol Seki is a small, luxury camp with an exclusive location in the Naboisho Conservancy, bordering the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Opened in 2005, the camp was incorporated into the Hemingways hotel collection in 2011. More recently a swimming pool has been added making Ol Seki one of the few small tented camps in the Mara region to offer a pool.

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Rekero Camp

Rekero Tented Camp is a classic bush camp with an enviable location in the Mara Confluence region of the Masai Mara Reserve, making it perfectly positioned to catch spectacle that is the annual wildebeest migration.

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Save 25% on long stays at Asilia safari camps

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Richard's Camp

Richard's Camp (now Richard's Forest Camp) is a highly exclusive seasonal tented camp situated in a conservation area north-west of the Masai Mara National Reserve.

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Royal Mara Camp

Royal Mara Camp enjoys a fabulous position in the heart of the Masai Mara, where it sits directly in the path of the annual Great Migration.

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Sala’s Camp

Sala’s is a fabulous small tented camp pitched between the Keekerok River and the seasonal Sand River in the Masai Mara Game Reserve. This is one of the quieter regions of the Mara, close to the Tanzania border.

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Saruni Mara

Saruni Mara Camp is a very stylish Italian-owned retreat, situated in the hills of the private Mara North conservancy, outside the Mara National Reserve - perfect for those safari-goers wanting to escape the crowds.

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Saruni Wild

Saruni Wild is a small, intimate bush camp situated in the private Mara North Conservancy. Ideal for families and small groups, the camp consists of just three bush tents which can be booked on an exclusive basis.

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Serian Camp

Located in the Mara North conservancy, Serian Camp is a traditional tented bush camp. It is set in a secluded valley and offers just six stylish tented suites overlooking the Mara River.

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Speke's Camp

Situated in a quiet location in the main Masai Mara Game Reserve, Speke’s Camp is a charming, low-key bush camp offering excellent value and an escape from the crowds.

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A successful Kilimanjaro summit climb

I was extremely glad that I chose Gane and Marshall for my long awaited Kilimanjaro attempt.

John