Best Lodges in Maasai Mara National Reserve – Mara Triangle, Conservancies This Best Lodges in Maasai Mara National Reserve guide explains how the reserve, the Mara Triangle, the conservancies and the budget camps differ; compares the lodges named most often; profiles the leading properties; shows how the reserve fee and conservancy fees change the cost; […]
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Olare Motorogi Conservancy Olare Motorogi is the conservancy most often named when safari planners talk about the Maasai Mara’s private reserves, and the reason is simple: big cats. It sits directly on the northern boundary of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, formed from the former Olare Orok and Motorogi conservancies, and it is widely documented
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Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Lewa began as a cattle ranch, Lewa Downs, and became one of the most influential conservation projects in Africa. In the 1980s it started sheltering endangered black rhinos; in 1995 it was formally established as a wildlife sanctuary; and in 2013 it was inscribed by UNESCO as an extension of the Mount
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Mara North Conservancy Mara North is the largest of the Maasai Mara’s private conservancies, a block of more than 70,000 acres on the northern edge of the national reserve, running up toward the Aitong Hills. It was formally established on 1 January 2009, when around 750 Maasai landowners agreed to lease their combined parcels into
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Malka Mari National Park: The Complete Travel Guide Malka Mari National Park was gazetted on 6 October 1989, protecting roughly 1,500 square kilometres of semi-arid bushland, scrubby grassland and riverine woodland along the Daua River on Kenya’s remote border with Ethiopia, deep in Mandera County. It’s frequently described, without much dispute, as the least visited
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Lake Bogoria National Reserve: The Complete Travel Guide Lake Bogoria National Reserve protects 107 square kilometers of Baringo County in Kenya’s Rift Valley, a saline, alkaline lake pressed against the base of the Ngendelel Escarpment, a sheer rock wall rising around 600 meters above the water. Gazetted in 1970, the reserve is best known for
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Arawale National Reserve : The Complete Travel Guide Arawale National Reserve covers 533 square kilometres of Garissa County in north-eastern Kenya, roughly 77 kilometres south of Garissa town, bordered by the Tana River to the west and the Garissa-Lamu road to the east. It was gazetted in 1974 for one overriding purpose: to serve as
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Kakamega Forest National Reserve: Complete Travel Guide Kakamega Forest is Kenya’s only true tropical rainforest, the easternmost surviving fragment of the ancient Guineo-Congolian forest that once stretched across Central Africa. The wider forest and reserve system covers roughly 238 square kilometres across Kakamega, Vihiga and Nandi counties in western Kenya, of which Kakamega National Reserve
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Kiunga Marine National Reserve: The Complete Travel Guide Kiunga Marine National Reserve protects a scattered chain of more than fifty limestone and coral islands off Kenya’s far northern coast, stretching from the Lamu Archipelago almost to the Somali border. It covers roughly 270 square kilometers of turquoise water, fringing reef and mangrove channel, and it
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Mwingi National Reserve: Complete Travel Guide Mwingi National Reserve covers 745 square kilometers of hot, dry, open savannah and acacia woodland in northeastern Kenya, one of three protected areas that make up the roughly 4,400 square kilometer Meru Conservation Area alongside Kora National Park and Bisanadi National Reserve. Bordering both Kora and Meru National Park,
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