In Kenya Safari At Kicheche Mara Camp
Kicheche Mara Camp is a classic luxury camp in a private area in the bush just outside the Masai Mara, and Kicheche is not a place everyone has heard of for your Safari holiday in Kenya.
This gives it an immediate advantage, because one of the problems on a safari to the Masai Mara seems to be the fact that there are other people on safari as well, and wherever you go, they seem to turn up as well.
The Kicheche Mara Camp is well hidden amongst Euclea and African Olives, in an area well known for its prolific wildlife, so you need to be aware that as it is a camp, there are no walls or fences, so animals can and do pass through the camp, so your game viewing starts from the camp itself.
In terms of how you will eat and sleep under these circumstances, then the answer is extremely well, if a little rustically.
It is a canvas bush camp with eleven spacious east African style tents which look out onto the grassy plains. Kicheche Mara Camp uses alternative sources of energy like solar power and candlelight which adds to its rustic appeal. It would be fair to warn you that if you need the mod cons of a lodge then perhaps Kicheche may not be for you.
Each tent has an ensuite bathroom with a safari bucket type of shower. This probably means the water will be heated in the early evening over a fire, to be ready for your return from an evening Game Drive. This means your evening shower will be jolly hot, as you pull the chain that releases the water, but in the morning you should be prepared for a much cooler experience.
If however your concern is having to walk around an open camp at night to visit the bathroom, and risk being eaten by a lion, you have no cause to worry, as everything you need will be in your tent!! The en-suite private bathrooms have a central dressing area and separate compartments for shower and toilet.
In any case the staff of Kicheche will not allow you to leave your tent at any time without an escort because wild animals have the right of way at all times!!
Outside your tent is a veranda with comfortable canvas chairs, and hammocks slung beneath the trees.
There is a noisy nightlife, but it is the African Bush!!
Although there is a dining tent, most meals are eaten outdoors, and there is a separate communal tent called the Nyati tent with comfy chairs, a great place to relax at the end of the day with a small library of reference books.
Game drives are with Kicheches experienced guides in 4x4 open topped Landcruisers which give you an unprecedented often close-up view of the incredible Masai Mara wildlife. If you go between July and october wildebeest and zebra are on the move, migrating from the adjoining Serengeti. This of course brings in large numbers of lions, leopards and cheetahs, who prey on the weak and the young
Walking safaris are also available, and offer a different perspective of the Reserve.
Kicheche Mara Camp is an ideal safari destination for a Kenya safari holiday
Peter Stewart writes exclusively for http://www.in-kenyasafari.com as well as http://www.worldwidevacationspots.com and he has in depth knowledge of the places he writes about
