Ol Kinyei Conservancy: 4 camps with 29 tents paying land leases for 18,600 acres in Ol Kinyei and 3,500 acres in Naboisho (total 22,100 acres for 29 tents).
Porini Mara Camp – 6 tents Porini Cheetah Camp – 6 tents
Porini Bush Camp – 8 tents (seasonal)
Gamewatchers Adventure Camp – 9 tents (seasonal)
Asilia Naboisho Camp – 9 tents
Encounter Mara – 10 tents
Eagle View – 12 tents
Dorobo Wilderness Camp – 5 tents
Kicheche Valley – 6 tents
Ol Seki Hemingways Mara – 10 tents
Porini Mara Camp – pays for 5 tents
Mahali Mzuri – 12 tents
Porini Lion Camp – 10 tents
Mara Plains – 7 tents
Olare Kempinski – 12 tents
Kicheche Bush Camp – 6 tents
Acacia House & Mara House – 6 rooms
Elephant Pepper Camp – 10 tents
Neptune Mara Rianta Camp – 20 tents
Karen Blixen Camp – 22 tents
Kicheche Mara Camp – 8 tents
Offbeat Mara Camp – 6 tents
Richard’s Camp – 7 tents
Royal Mara Safari Lodge – 8 rooms
Saruni Mara – 9 rooms
Serian – 10 tents
Safaris Unlimited – contributes for riding safaris
TOTAL 25 small camps with 234 tents / 468 beds paying for leases of 175,000 acres. Average camp size less than 10 tents / 20 beds per camp.
Elsewhere there are over 120 other camps in the Mara Reserve and the surrounding area, with over 4,000 beds in total, and these include 7 big lodges having over 1,000 beds between them!
Map of the Masai Mara region showing the Reserve and the Conservancies
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We encourage visitors to stay at the camps listed above which support the conservancy model of protecting wildlife habitat on land owned by the local Maasai community to create income and employment for the landowners from wildlife conservation and a low-density form of tourism. It is these safari camps which are the ones paying for the leases and running costs of the conservancies.
These are the camps which should be recommended as the places to stay and visitors are urged to support them and to avoid the “rogue camps” which in recent years have been mushrooming everywhere in the Mara outside the Reserve and the Conservancies and doing little or nothing for conservation of wildlife!
on Wednesday 10th February 2016 at 10:55