Gamewatchers Adventure Camping Safaris

This camping safari has been designed to offer the same high quality wildlife safari experience provided by the top-end safari camps, with 4x4 game viewing escorted by top class guides and in exclusive wildlife conservancies away from the tourist minibuses, but at a hugely reduced price by staying in small basic adventure camps, “real camping” instead of the luxury accommodation of the expensive up-market tented lodges. Transport between the camps is by light aircraft to avoid the long drives overland on rough roads and to have more time on safari for activities from the camps.

For those for whom the wildlife safari experience is more important than the accommodation, and who are prepared to sleep in small tents in sleeping bags on a mattress on the floor with an element of “roughing it”, this gives an opportunity for an exceptional and exclusive wildlife experience with high quality guiding but at a fraction of the price. 

Camping Safari Experience

The Gamewatchers Adventure Camps are sited in private conservancies with a wealth of wildlife and where you can go on walks with Maasai guides and take night drives but they are also conveniently located for easy access to Amboseli National Park and the Maasai Mara Reserve.

• All game drives are in four-wheel-drive customised safari vehicles taking a maximum of 6 passengers. Your driver-guide is a wildlife expert and certified by the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association.
• The Gamewatchers Adventure Safari camps are set up on our own exclusive camp sites in the Selenkay Conservancy in the Amboseli eco-system and in the Ol Kinyei Conservancy in the Mara.
• At each safari camp site we have service staff who do all the work associated with camping, like washing up, heating water for showers, doing the cooking and serving the food.
• An experienced safari cook is at the camp to prepare the daily meals. Food is of the same quality as in a luxury safari camp and is included in the price, (not bought through a 'kitty' like some other camping safaris).
• The camp is hosted by the safari guide.
• Tents are Coleman Sundome tents for 2 persons or can fit one child with 2 adults.  They are 6 ft tall and they are 10ft x 10ft square.
• Clients bring their own sleeping bag and a towel or hire for $50 per person and sleep on comfortable mattresses on the tent floor.
• Each tent on our adventure safari has its own private bathroom in a cubicle located behind the tent with flush toilet, wash basin and safari shower.
• Mineral water is provided daily at camp and on game drives and walks.
• Drinks other than mineral water are not included in the price but beer and sodas are available at reasonable prices and guests may bring their own wine or spirits if they wish.
• Transfers from Nairobi to the camps are by light aircraft from Wilson Airport Nairobi to Selenkay, Mara and back. While at camp all safari transport is in 4x4 customised safari vehicle.

The camping safari departs daily from Nairobi from the 1st July 2012 to the 31st October 2012, from 20th December 2012 until the 31st March 2013 and from1st July 2013 to the 31st October 2013.

Days 1,2 & 3: Selenkay Conservancy and Amboseli National Park (camp in Selenkay Conservancy for 3 nights)

Days 4, 5 & 6: Masai Mara and Ol Kinyei Conservancy (camp in Ol Kinyei Conservancy for 3 nights).