Help the Maasai preserve their wildlife heritage
Before booking a Kenya Safari vacation, maybe even a honeymoon in Kenya, you have to 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 hidden Treasure’, but effectively for you the concealed treasure is the sheer quality of this luxurious tented safari camp in Southern Kenya, which is nearly in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro which is only 35 miles away, and it lies within a 400 square mile personal ranch.
There are superb features concerning Campi Ya Kanzi making it an excellent base for a luxury African safari and a number of them are as follows.
The maximum number of guests is restricted to 14 in 6 thatched roof tented cottages, and the two suites called Hemingway and Simba. Each tented cottage is made of stones fabric and wood.
The tented cottages all have different views and are extremely private, just one reason that Campi Ya Kanzi is an absolute 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 apartments a full size bath, shower, bidet, flush toilet and cold and hot running water. Electricity is supplied by a solar system to each cottage.
magnificence is added to by the proven fact that the plumbing fixtures are brass, and fresh flowers are replaced every day.
Each cottage as Camp Ya Kanzi has a wide porch with superb perspectives of Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Tsavo Hills.
Each guesthouse has an appointed Maasai attendant, and at night the camp is patrolled by guards so you can feel safe and totally 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 formed of local materials and thatch. It is open to the outside and the views of Kilimanjaro from the patio are to put it softly spectacular. 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 big wooden family dining table, set with expensive china, silverware and crystal to further this impression, and food that has an Italian theme, and is naturally home cooked by specially trained cooks is amazing, but stands alongside local and world 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 offer you the most notable holiday of your life.
Your safari day will begin with coffee or tea brought to your cottage by your Maasai attendant, and then after enjoying the view from the verandah you may have a morning game drive, or if you would like a walk. Breakfast follows with fresh local fruit, then possibly an escorted safari on foot. Campi Ya Kanzi is famous and rightly so for its foot safaris. The Maasai game trackers will go out first, then you will follow in your own auto, getting close enough to whatever game you have indicated you want to see. It is then on foot, with your armed pro guide and the trackers. In this way you will get close and private, whilst remaining safe at all times.
All of this is as far as you can get from the mass vehicle pursuit of animals in the Masai Mara, and indeed you may never want it another way in the future.
all of the activity in the bush is what you want and not part of a stiff program. You will pretty much certainly see all 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 might be the perfect solution plus the fact every buck you spend helps the Maasai preserve their wildlife heritage.
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