AMBOSELI, LAIKIPIA, MARA, OL PEJETA

The Porini Safari Camps offer visitors the experience of staying in small, high quality safari camps located in exclusive wildlife conservancies in some of the finest big game areas in Africa. Here you will escape from the crowds and experience the African wilderness without the presence of other tourist vehicles and with the personal attention of qualified safari guides.

The Porini Safari Camps are small and exclusive with no more than 10 guest tents so that you will have just a few other like-minded people as company.

• AMBOSELI PORINI CAMP is an exclusive bush camp of 9 guest tents in the Selenkay Conservancy, a private reserve beside Amboseli National Park in unspoilt wilderness and well off the beaten track.
• MARA PORINI CAMP is set up on similar lines with 6 tents and is in the first private conservancy in the Mara eco-system at Ol Kinyei. We operate daily departures by air from Nairobi – a 45 minute flight.
• PORINI LION CAMP is located in the exclusive 22,000 acre Olare Orok Conservancy which borders the Masai Mara Game Reserve. The Camp is situated along the Ntiakatiak River and consists of 10 luxury guest tents.
• PORINI RHINO CAMP the newest Camp, opened July 2007 with six tents, located in the 90,000 acre Ol Pejeta Conservancy near Mt Kenya. All of the Big 5 are found here and this is the largest Black Rhino sanctuary in East Africa!

All the Porini camps are run on environmentally sound principles, specially designed to have minimum impact, with no permanent structures, using solar power for electricity and heating water with special eco-friendly sustainable charcoal briquettes.

In Amboseli and Mara, the conservancies are owned by the local Maasai communities and the camps are operated and managed with the objective of creating income and providing benefits for the local people so that they can gain from participating in tourism.

Game drives from the Porini Camps are in open-sided 4x4 safari vehicles, with expert safari guides, for the best wildlife safari viewing.

LOCATION OF THE PORINI CAMPS:

Amboseli, the best place in Kenya to see elephants at close range and wonderful views of Kilimanjaro.

Selenkay Conservancy, walk with Maasai warriors, night game drives, exclusive wilderness area with no other tourist vehicles. Lion and cheetah are present and some of the less common cats like Cracal, Serval and African wildcat are often seen.

Ol Pejeta Conservancy, the largest rhino conservancy in East Africa in a vast tract of wilderness within the Laikipia area, overlooking snow-capped Mount Kenya. Elephant, rhino, lion and leopard all present.

The Mara, famous for the spectacular wildebeest migration between June and October every year and excellent for lion, leopard and cheetah. The camps are located in their own exclusive conservancies:

Olare Orok Conservancy and the Ol Kinyei Conservancy.

Highlights:

Transfers between the camps are by scheduled air service with a flight to get you straight to the wildlife without spending hours travelling between the parks over rough roads. Game drives from the camps are in 4x4 safari vehicles (not vans) with excellent guides. Walks with Maasai warriors, opportunity for night game drives, exclusive wilderness areas with no tourist minibuses. An authentic safari experience staying in small exclusive camps with spacious guest tents, comfortably furnished with private bathrooms, solar lights and located in attractive unspoilt natural settings. At the camps all meals, drinks (wine, gin & tonic, beer, sodas, mineral water), and activities like game drives, walks, night drives and sundowners are included in the price.