Mara Explorer is fortunate to occupy a location in one of the best game viewing locations in the Mara, with views over the Talek River. Styled along classic 'Explorer' lines, complete with mahogany furniture, antique chests and equipped with his and hers outdoor claw-foot bathtubs; open to nature and with a view.
The camp is one of Heritage Hotels exclusive properties and offers a high standard of service but being part of a chain, rather lacks the personal quirkiness and personality of some of the other small luxury camps in this area. However, it's location means that you can easily get out and about and spend as much time as possible where it counts.
Incl. FB, Soft drinks, local beers and wine, 3 game drives per day, guided walks, airstrip transfers, bush breakfasts, bush dinner, laundry. Excl. Additional activities, spirits, champagne.
The Masai Mara Reserve constitutes a relatively small part of the whole Mara eco-system, which is in turn, a tiny week piece of the larger eco-system which includes the vast Serengeti. While best known for the great wildebeest migration, the Mara is an extraordinary wildlife destination. Scenically, it epitomises the Africa of childhood imaginings: the lone Acacia tree against the cobalt sky, rolling plains that positively heave with life, the sluggish curves of the Mara River choc-a-bloc with hippo and crocs and the odd red "shuka" of a Maasai herdsman who carry on their normal pace of life, largely oblivious of all the commotion around them. Read more?
Kenya is the most established safari country, and consequently you have to step a little off the conventional route to find real wilderness, but it’s certainly there. Kenya also has much going for it as a family destination, and also a good number of very individual safari camps and lodges with a personal approach that makes your experience very special. Kenya also has a particularly diverse ecology which ranges from snowy mountains to true desert, rolling grassy plains filled with wildlife to craggy scrub intersected with dry riverbeds, sparkling beaches and volcanic ranges. Read more?
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Vanessa's 16 years in travel has seen her knowledge develop from sub-Saharan Africa into North Africa, Central and Southern America and the Galapagos. Consequently, she’s a veritable encyclopaedia of travel information and exceptionally cool, calm and collected in the face of the greatest planning demands.
At Natural High, we've had long experience putting together trips in Africa that really work. Whether it's intimate bushcamps in out of the way places, or a private lodge in one of Africa's top-billing wildlife areas, light mobile camping or remote island escapes, we know there is a lot to choose from. We're absolutely confident that we can recommend the right places for you.
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