Location:- Campi ya Kanzi features Maasai-led walking safaris in Kenya. Experience the thrill of tracking game on foot with traditional Maasai! Located in Kenya's prime game area between Amboseli and Tsavo National Parks, the camp provides a luxury tented experience for your exclusive private safari. The safaris are unique and tailor made to your desires and needs. Since there's no mass tourism and the ranch's environment is still pristine, the wildlife are unspoiled by human contact.
Campi ya Kanzi means "Camp of the Hidden Treasure" in Kiswahili. For you, it means "safari in style" at a luxury tented safari camp. The camp lies within a 400-square-mile Maasai private land in Southern Kenya, dominated by Mt. Kilimanjaro, just 35 miles away. The Maasai are the landlords, making it one of the last unspoiled areas of Africa. Connecting three national parks (Chyulu, Tsavo and Amboseli), the property is home to a vast wildlife and birdlife population.

At a glance:-

• Accommodation - Capacity - 14
• 6 thatched roof tented cottages and in the Hemingway and Simba suites
• Nature walks and walking safari expedition
• Authentic cultural interaction with Maasai community
• Game drive and wildlife watching
• Bird watching
• Botanical escorted game walks
• Visits to the projects of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, including a Maasai school, the dispensary, the game scouts.
• Bush breakfast, picnics, bush dinners and sundowners
• Excursions to Chyulu National Park, Amboseli National Park, Tsavo National Park

Accommodation:- Campi ya Kanzi accommodates a maximum of 14 guests in six thatched roof tented cottages and in the Hemingway and Simba suites. The first one is named after the famous author who wrote of the nearby Chyulu Hills in his book "Green Hills of Africa", the latter one is named after the Swahili name for Lion.
Each tented cottage enjoys a different view, and accommodates one or two adults. An extra bed can be added for a child. They feature either twin beds or a king-size bed, made at the camp with local logs, with specially made linen imported from Italy. A table, two safari chairs, a colonial trunk, shelves and hangers for your clothes, and daily fresh flowers complete the interior décor.
The suites feature king-size bed, a clothes room between the bedroom and the bathroom, with cabinets. Bathrooms have double sinks. All tented cottages are constructed of stones, fabric, and wood and they feature a full elegant bath with shower, bidet, basin, and flush toilet and electric light; brass plumbing fixtures add an unexpected touch of elegance and comfort with hot and cold running water. Each tented cottage has a wide veranda to provide superb views of either Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Tsavo Hills, and the Chyulu Hills. Our state-of-the-art solar system provides 220-volt electricity for your cottage (plugs and sockets are Italian).

Activities:- Nature walks and walking safari expedition, Authentic cultural interaction with Maasai community, Game drive and wildlife watching, Bird watching, Botanical escorted game walks, Visits to the projects of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, including a Maasai school, the dispensary, the game scouts, Bush breakfast, picnics, bush dinners and sundowners, Excursions to Chyulu National Park, Amboseli National Park, Tsavo National Park.

Wildlife:- More than 60 species of mammals and almost 400 bird species inhabit the ranch (» Download Campi ya Kanzi mammals list [PDF 130 Kb]). The most recent game count revealed an abundant local wildlife population: 2,016 zebra, 945 hartebeest, 810 Grant gazelles, 514 impala, 432 eland, 362 giraffes, 340 buffaloes, 329 elephants, 19 lions, and 5 leopards...
We also have hundreds of gnus, waterbucks, Thompson's gazelles, baboons, and oryx. A walk through the gentle hills near the camp will reward you with a view of mountain reedbuck, the graceful klipspringer. While exploring the riverbanks, you might catch a view of the shy lesser kudu or a glimpse of the bushbuck. In the plains you will see the amazing gerenuk.
Birdlife is amazing, once again thanks to the incredible diversity of the topography of the reserve. The forest narina trogon, Hartlaub turaco, silver-cheeked hornbill are extremely rare elsewhere, and yet easy to be found here.
Kori bustards, many different hornbills, many colorful sunbirds are also common.
Birds of prey are plenty, including the rare Verraux eagle.