Comfortable and simple tented camp, good location, great guiding
Guide Price: From: $470 To: $550
Offbeat Mara Camp started it's life as a base for horse-riding safaris and it's location outside of the park chosen so that a wide variety of activities could be offered while still being able to enjoy the famous wildlife experience that is the Mara ecosystem.
Co-owners, Tristan & Cindy Vorspruy still use the camp as a base for their riding safaris. The camp is discreetly located in an area of thick bush, allowing a high degree of privacy for each traditional-style safari tent. The central lounge and dining tent accommodates comfortable sofas and a large table, around which everyone gathers for meals.
Offbeat have struck a good balance with their camps and they are consistently well located, comfortably and stylishly furnished with a high standard of guiding.
6 tents
From: 470 To: 550
Comfortable and simple tented camp, good location, great guiding
Incl. FB, drinks, game drives, walks and cultural visits, laundry. Excl. Champagne.
The Mara Conservation Area surrounds the main Masai Mara Reserve. This land is owned by a series of different Maasai communities (although mmuch of it falls under conservation partnership ageements with the private camp-owners), and differs from the main reserve in a couple of important ways. First, the Maasai to whom this is home are allowed to use this area to graze their cattle. Second, because it lies outside the main reserve, walking is allowed in this area. While many of the camps located here - the likes of Kicheche Mara Camp, Ol Seki Mara Camp, Richards Camp and Elephant Pepper Camp are within relatively easy reach of the main reserve, we would council against using this area simply as a dormitory for visiting the main park. Like Loliondo in northern Tanzania the Conservation Area really offers another side of the Mara ecosystem. It's probably worth recognising that the game viewing may not be quite on the scale of the main park - and that for the major river crossings you'll need to make the journey. However, in our experience, game viewing here rarely disappoints and the added dimension of the Maasai involvement makes this an excellent place to spend a few days. 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.
