The Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya has many tented and permanent camps and lodges for those folks sufficiently lucky to be on a Masai Mara Safari.  For a terribly prime quality camp you need look no further than Olonana

Olonana is a sublime bush camp on the banks of the Mara river just outside the Masai Mara Reserve’s western boundary in Kenya, right at the guts of giant Game viewing country. 

It’s position enables the lodge to supply the best of both worlds with night drives, walking safaris, and day time game drives within the reserve. 

Olonana has 12 large and spacious permanent tents, each with 2 queen sized beds, ensuite bogs and hot showers, and each with a large veranda with a great view of the river, where you will get great perspectives of hippo especially in the evenings as you are enjoying your sundowner before dinner.  Importantly the tents have floor to ceiling mosquito netting windows for your protection.  One fear you don’t need to have is walking back to your tent at night, because you’ll always be taken and fetched by a really nice man with a torch and a stick. 

Dinner which is, as are all of the meals, delicious can be taken in the dining room overlooking the brook, or if you wish meals can be taken on the Siria escarpment overlooking the Mara plains, or deep in the bush as a picnic.  If food is important to you then a Masai Mara Safari staying here will pleasure even the most jaded of palates. 

What is unique about Olonana is that it exists in cooperation with the Masai people, so you’ll have a chance to view the day to day lives of these proud folks in a town close by.  No other lodge in the Masai Mara offers this opportunity. 

The facilities at Olonana has a non-public butler service, an elegant lounge and library, and a pool to cool of after one of the many game drives you will experience.  Unlike some other camps there’s a generator and solar energy, so electricity is not difficult and the fragile eco system of the Masai Mara is little ruffled. 

you will enjoy game drives in open cars giving an undisturbed view of the wealthy numbers of game including hippo, elephant, prides of lion, buffalo, hyena, giraffe, and several species of gazelle.  You are also sure to see cheetah, leopard, and even rhino if you are lucky, and you can be sure your guides are well trained experts. 

it isn’t just the fact that your guides on your Masai Mara Safari are gurus, it is the passion of the guides that makes all the difference.  They obviously love what they do and this broadcasts itself again and again again.  All you have to do is to ask if it is possible to view a selected animal, and if it is, then you’ll pretty much certainly get closer than you might ever believe possible.  They go out of there way so willingly.  The same is true of the staff at Olonana, for whom nothing is too much trouble.  If you won’t or can’t eat something, then options are instantaneously produced, and always with a smile. 

it is true to say that visiting the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya for part of your in Kenya Safari is a total must, but to remain at Olonana is an experience you may never forget.

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