Governor Camp; On Safari in the Masai Mara, Kenya

$601 pppn including all game viewing activities

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Governors’ Camp

Governors' Camp is situated on the banks of the Mara River in the west of the Masai Mara Game Reserve. Created in 1972, it set new standards in luxury as a tented camp, putting particular emphasis on comfort and service, complimented by the sort of good food, which would have been impossible in the bygone days of the grand safari. Maintaining these unique qualities as a tradition, the camp has been refined and improved through the years.

Governors’ Camp – The Facts

Governors’ Camp – The Detail

Governors' Camp, with its 37 tents set amongst the trees along the Mara river, also has unrivalled views over the plains and is visited and re-visited by guests who find its continued excellence, personal style and family feeling quietly reassuring.

The dining tent, campfire and bar tent are the focal centre of the camp. Next to the reception is a small gallery with local paintings and handcrafts as well as a small souvenir shop. Breakfast and lunch are served buffet style, alfresco. Dinner is served in the dining tent. For dinner the camp offers a choice of four courses, including a choice of main courses. A traditional campfire is lit at sunset every evening and after dinner clients can enjoy sitting around the campfire, reminiscing about their safari in its evocative light.

The Masai Mara is a unique area with a constant and unrivalled flow of wildlife throughout the year. From July to October the Mara becomes a backdrop for one of the last great natural wonders of the world, when 1.5 million wildebeest and zebra surge up from the Serengeti plains in their annual search for the seasonal grasses that sustain them. The spectacle as the vast herds cross rivers and sweep through the golden grasses, is punctuated by individual struggles with the predators, which are in turn drawn to take their part in this dramatic event.

Governors’ Camp – Our view

Governors’ has become synonymous with the Masai Mara and the camps, of which there are 4, are all superbly located to benefit from the annual Migration herd of wildebeest that come up from Tanzania around the end of July and depart towards the end of October. The camps have also, for the last 10 years or so, been the base for the famous BBC Big Cat diaries which have made the plains of East Africa so famous. The greatest point about Governors’ is that, where they regularly have a crossing point in view of the bar, it is possible to sit and have a G&T while seeing probably the greatest spectacle offered in safari! Otherwise, the camp is comfortable and continues to offer very good value for money.