Help the Maasai preserve their wildlife heritage
Before booking a Kenya Safari vacation, perhaps even a honeymoon in Kenya, you must do your homework.
It is possible you could never have heard of Campi Ya Kanzi which is in the Chyulu Hills state Park, but this would be the ideal place for a luxury African safari.
Campi Ya Kanzi means ‘Camp of The concealed Treasure’, but effectively for you the concealed treasure is the sheer quality of this luxury tented safari camp in Southern Kenya, which is nearly in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro which is only 35 miles away, and it lies inside a 400 square mile personal ranch.
There are outstanding features concerning Campi Ya Kanzi making it an excellent base for a luxury African safari and some of them are.
The maximum number of guests is restricted to fourteen in 6 thatched roof tented cottages, and the two suites called Hemingway and Simba. Each tented cottage is formed of stones fabric and wood.
The tented cottages all have different perspectives and are extremely private, only one reason that Campi Ya Kanzi is a complete must visit on a honeymoon in Kenya.
The suites all feature a king size bed, a dressing room, and the bathrooms have double wash hand basins.
The cottages have either twin or king size beds, and have like the suites a full size bath, shower, bidet, flush toilet and hot and cold running water. Electricity is supplied by a solar system to every cottage.
magnificence is added to by the fact that the plumbing fixtures are brass, and fresh flowers are replaced every day.
Each cottage as Camp Ya Kanzi has a wide veranda with wonderful views of Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Tsavo Hills.
Each guesthouse has a designated Maasai attendant, and at night the camp is patrolled by guards so you can feel safe and absolutely secure at Campi Ya Kanzi.
The meals are all served at Tembo House which is the clubhouse at the epicentre of the camp. Like the cottages it is made of local materials and thatch. It is open to the outside and the perspectives of Kilimanjaro from the patio are to put it mildly impressive. It also has a big lounge for relaxing reading and having a quiet drink.
Tembo House is more like being a guest in a friend’s home than an hotel. Even dining is at a large wooden family dining table, set with fine china, silverware and crystal to further this impression, and food which has an Italian theme, and is of course home cooked by specifically trained chefs is fantastic, but stands alongside local and international dishes, and veg from the plant garden, local fresh milk and eggs from the chickens.
Campi Ya Kanzi has two goals, the first of which is to help the Maasai preserve their wildlife heritage. The second is to give you the most noteworthy vacation of your life.
Your safari day will commence with tea or coffee brought to your cottage by your Maasai attendant, and then after enjoying the view from the verandah you will have a morning game drive, or if you would prefer a walk. Breakfast follows with fresh local fruit, then probably an escorted safari on foot. Campi Ya Kanzi is famous and correctly so for its foot safaris. The Maasai game trackers will go out first, then you will follow in your own car, getting close enough to whatever game you have indicated you want to see. It is then on foot, with your armed professional guide and the trackers. In this fashion you will get close and private, whilst remaining safe at every point.
All of this is as far as you can get from the mass car pursuit of animals in the Masai Mara, and indeed you will never desire it another way in the future.
all of the activity in the bush is what you need and not part of a stiff program. You will almost surely see all of the big five, but on foot, and what may be more exciting than that.
If you want to take a luxury African safari, or have your honeymoon in Kenya, then Campi Ya Kanzi may be the best solution plus the fact every buck you spend helps the Maasai preserve their wildlife heritage.
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