Little
Governors Camp
Masai
Mara Game Reserve, Kenya
Flying
Safari Packages
(Little
Governors Camp is quietly nestled in Kenya's Masai Mara
Game Reserve, in Kenya. The unfenced camp is at the
edge of a watering hole where grazing elephants, giraffes,
hippos and zebras are regular visitors.
Little
Governors distance from Nairobi is approximately 320
Kilometers (5 to 6 Hours Drive) and about 45 Minutes
by air to Musiara Airstrip which is served by scheduled
flights twice daily from Nairobi. Little Governors Camp
guests are met on arrival and transferred approximately
15 minutes to the camp)
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Governors Camp
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Little
Governors Camp;
Little Governors Camp is
intimate in character, with just 17 luxury en-suite
tents tucked around a large watering hole that teems
with both birds and wildlife. The camp is approached
by a boat ride across the Mara River, then an escorted
walk through the riverine forest. Vehicles are left
on the far river bank, and the camp is therefore quiet
and undisturbed.
Little
Governors Camp
accommodation comprises of 2 Twins, 5 double tents,
(tent 17 recommended for honeymooners). All the tents
are comfortable and tasteful. Each has an en-suite bathroom,
hot running water, even bidets.
In
keeping with safari tradition lighting is by gas and
kerosene lanterns, or by candlelight. As dusk falls,
the flickering lights in the forest make the Camp a
peaceful and atmospheric place. Meals are in superlative
standard, served outdoors during the day and in the
candle lit dining tent by night.
Come
the evening it’s time for chilled drinks and tall
tales around the blazing campfire. Then finally a delicious
dinner and a hot-water bottle to keep you warm in bed.
The
guest tents at Little Governors’ have recently
been renovated and now have great wooden decks with
large verandahs for guests to enjoy the constant game
activity that takes place around the watering hole at
the camp.
All
Governors’ properties are unfenced, and at Little
Governors’ there is a resident families of warthogs
wander freely through the camp. Guests may need to make
way for elephants which sometimes visit the camp at
lunch time.
Breakfast
and lunch are served in the open air, and the resident
family of warthogs frequently wander amongst the tables.
Since Little
Governors Camp
is unfenced and in the heart of the Reserve, elephants
may also stroll past. In the evening a warming log fire
burns in front of the Bar Tent, and dinner is served
in the nearby Dining Tent.
Little
Governors Camp Non-Residents
Accommodation & Safari Prices
Non-Residents
Accommodation & Safari Rates Per Night Include:
Masai Mara Air strip transfers, Full Board Accommodation
+ bottled water and welcome drink + laundry + Shared
Game Drives + transport to local Masai Villages (Manyattas),
local schools and other community and conservation projects
Dates
From |
Dates
To |
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Children
Under
16
Years Sharing
|
1st
Jan 2013 |
31st
Mar 2013 |
606 US Dollars |
970 US Dollars |
315 US Dollars |
1st
Apr 2013 |
30th
Jun 2013 |
339
US Dollars |
678 US Dollars |
221 US Dollars |
1st
Jul 2013 |
31st
Oct 2013 |
757 US Dollars |
1,210 US Dollars |
393 US Dollars |
1st
Nov 2013 |
15th
Dec 2013 |
606 US Dollars |
970 US Dollars |
315 US Dollars |
16th
Dec 2013 |
31st
Dec 2013 |
757 US Dollars |
1,210 US Dollars |
393 US Dollars |
Notes
*
The supplement for the Justus Suite at Governors’
Camp is US Dollars per night
*
Little Governors Camp Rates above exclude drinks, personal
expenses, Manyatta entrance fees and Park Fees
*
Little Governors Camp is able to host many types of
special interest groups including in your group specialists
in areas as diverse as Anthropology, Art, Astronomy,
Conservation, Ecology, Fishing, Music, Ornithology,
Botany Photography, Wildlife Film and Zoology. Please
contact us at info@africanspicesafaris.com
Little
Governors Camp
Non-Residents Accommodation Rates include:
*
Laundry
*
Bottled
water
*
Masai
Mara airstrip transfers
*
3
Meals per person per night booked
*
Transport to local Masai Villages (Manyattas)
*
Full Board Accommodation at Little Governors Camp
*
Transport
to / from the local schools and other community and
conservation projects
*
Three
Game Drives daily into the famous Masai Mara National
Reserve and surrounding areas
Little
Governors Camp
Non-Residents Accommodation Rates include:
*
Drinks
*
Personal
expenses
*
Manyatta
(Masai Village) entrance fees
*
Hot Air Ballooning service is provided by Governors
Balloon Safaris Ltd at an extra fee
*
Park
Entrance Fees for Masai Mara Adult 70 US Dollars and
Child below 16 years 40 US Dollars
Little
Governors Camp Residents
Accommodation & Safari Prices
Residents
Accommodation & Safari Rates Per Night Include:
Masai Mara Air strip transfers, Full Board Accommodation
+ bottled water and welcome drink + laundry + Shared
Game Drives + transport to local Masai Villages (Manyattas),
local schools and other community and conservation projects
Dates
From |
Dates
To |
|
|
Children
Under
16
Years Sharing
|
1st
Jan 2013 |
31st
Mar 2013 |
424 US Dollars |
678 US Dollars |
221 US Dollars |
1st
Apr 2013 |
30th
Jun 2013 |
238 US Dollars |
476 US Dollars |
154 US Dollars |
1st
Jul 2013 |
31st
Oct 2013 |
530 US Dollars |
848 US Dollars |
275 US Dollars |
1st
Nov 2013 |
15th
Dec 2013 |
424 US Dollars |
678 US Dollars |
221 US Dollars |
16th
Dec 2013 |
31st
Dec 2013 |
530 US Dollars |
848 US Dollars |
275 US Dollars |
Notes
*
The supplement for the Justus Suite at Governors’
Camp is US Dollars per night
*
Little Governors Camp Rates above exclude drinks, personal
expenses, Manyatta entrance fees and Park Fees
*
Little Governors Camp is able to host many types of
special interest groups including in your group specialists
in areas as diverse as Anthropology, Art, Astronomy,
Conservation, Ecology, Fishing, Music, Ornithology,
Botany Photography, Wildlife Film and Zoology. Please
contact us at info@africanspicesafaris.com
Little
Governors Camp
Residents Accommodation Rates include:
*
Laundry
*
Bottled
water
*
Masai
Mara airstrip transfers
*
3
Meals per person per night booked
*
Transport to local Masai Villages (Manyattas)
*
Full Board Accommodation at Little Governors Camp
*
Transport
to / from the local schools and other community and
conservation projects
*
Three
Game Drives daily into the famous Masai Mara National
Reserve and surrounding areas
Little
Governors Camp
Residents Accommodation Rates include:
*
Drinks
*
Personal
expenses
*
Manyatta
(Masai Village) entrance fees
*
Hot Air Ballooning service is provided by Governors
Balloon Safaris Ltd at an extra fee
*
Park
Entrance Fees for Masai Mara Adult 1,200 Kenya Shillings
and Child below 16 years 600 Kenya Shillings
Little
Governors Camp Activities
Little
Governors Camp
offers various activities: game drives in open Landrovers,
game walks or balloon flights over the wide plains of
the Masai Mara. Day excursions to the Lake Victoria
are also on offer. However, we recommend booking these
excursions well in advance and combining the Lake Victoria
trip with an overnight stay. All meals, three game drives
daily as well as laundry is included in the price.
Park entrance fees, drinks as well as other activities
(such as walking, ballooning, Lake Victoria excursion,
a visit to a Masai village) are to be paid separately.
Please let African Spice Safaris know special dietary
requirements in advance.
Little
Governors Camp Game
Drives
Governors’ Camp properties combine the best locations
in the Masai Mara with the best-designed vehicles and
exceptionally highly trained and experienced guides
to give our clients un-matched game-viewing and photographic
opportunities in the world’s prime wildlife area.
Little
Governors Camp Walking
Safaris
Little
Governors Camp
allows you to leave your vehicle behind and take a walking
safari with one of the experienced and qualified naturalists
for the true thrill of the bush. Down on the same level
as the animals, you will experience the untamed beauty
of the Mara.
The
walking safaris take place in a private concession area
adjacent to the Masai Mara Game Reserve. The scenery
here differs significantly from the Masai Mara. Picturesque
acacia trees characterize the hilly landscape and you
can enjoy walking through either in the morning or afternoon.
The walk takes approximately 1.5 to 2 hours.
You
will track game, unsure what waits round the next corner,
giraffe, buffalo, hyena, zebra or even lion. You will
catch the scents and sounds of the wild Africa and at
the end of it all waits a sumptuous bush barbecue breakfast,
complete with champagne.
Your
drive back to the camp again is a game drive through
the Masai Mara. Afternoon walking safaris are finished
with sundowner drinks and canapés. Participants
in a walking safari should be in good health and be
reasonably fit and active.
There
is no path as such and some parts of the walk lead through
hilly and rocky areas. Children under 10 years are,
for safety reasons, not allowed to participate in walking
safaris.
Little
Governors Camp Masai
Cultural Visits
Take a drive out to visit a traditional Masai manyatta
or homestead, to experience a way of life unchanged
for centuries.
Visitors
are always struck by the grace and beauty of the Masai
people, and the colorful lifestyle they lead. In October
2006, and to assist these communities with conservation
of local woodland habitats, Governors’ Camp commissioned
its first “Bio-gas” project at one manyatta.
This will provide residents of that manyatta with methane
gas generated from dung from the Masai’s own cattle.
Methane can be used for cooking thus eliminating the
need for the women to collect fire-wood which is both
harmful to the local woodlands and takes up time that
could be used in a more economically productive way.
We welcome the assistance of our clients in these socioeconomic
and conservation.
Little
Governors Camp Hot-Air
Balloon Safaris
Little
Governors Camp
Hot Air Balloon ride adventure begins just before dawn.
Departure is from a perfect natural launch site behind
Little Governors’ Camp and flames from the hot
air balloon burners light the darkness as the crews
inflate their craft.
The
first, pink tongues of sunlight flicker across the skies
and the hot air balloon fills, then rises. Suspended
in a basket beneath the rainbow-colored canopy, you’re
off for a game-viewing adventure with an entirely different
perspective.
What
amazes most first-time balloonists is the absolute stillness:
the silence as you float above the plains, the forest
and the rivers of the Masai Mara. Even if you’ve
flown elsewhere, this is a unique experience.
Little
Governors Camp
Hot Air Balloon ride flight lasts an hour or so, drifting
wherever the air currents take you, and with ample opportunities
for photography and video filming.
Then
your Kenyan Hot Air Balloon Safari finishes with a flourish.
In the time honored tradition of balloon flights the
world over, you toast your return to earth with a champagne
breakfast, cooked wherever you land.
The
Balloon Safari ends with a leisurely game drive to Camp.
It is a tradition of Governors’ that each passenger
is presented with a certificate signed by the pilot
to commemorate the flight.
Little
Governors Camp
Great Wildebeest Migration Game Drives
Little Governors Camp is ideally placed to let you to
be at the heart of the Great Wildebeest Migration as
the camp is situated right inside the Masai Mara Game
Reserve. After the rains when the first flush of grass
turns the Masai Mara’s golden savannah green,
the most mesmerizing wildlife spectacle anywhere takes
place here:
The
Great Wildebeest Migration. Between the months of July
and October one and a half million wildebeest, accompanied
by vast numbers of zebra and gazelles make the long
and dangerous trek from drier lands in Tanzania, northwards
to this corner of Kenya.
Lines
of animals stretch as far as the eye can see across
the plains. They come to give birth to their young and
the grasslands echo with the sounds of the new-born.
But it is a time too when the predators are drawn from
all around. High above on the hot winds the carrion
birds, the vultures and eagles, soar. In the long grasses
lion, cheetah, leopard and hyena prowl.
Most
dramatic of all is the moment when the migration arrives
at the Mara River. They must cross it to reach the rich
grazing. As the animals throng, crocodiles cruise the
waters. Then the bravest takes the plunge into the swirling
currents and thousands follow.
Lake
Victoria Day Trips
Mfangano Island Camp is a tranquil retreat on an island
with no vehicles, where transport is by colorful local
canoes. It offers a perfect place to relax and unwind,
either at the beginning or the end of your safari. The
following activities are available at Mfangano Island
Camp:
• Spa
•
Relaxing
•
Water sports
•
Trail walking
•
Bird watching
•
Cultural Walks
• Swimming pool
•
Fishing for Nile Perch and Tilapia
•
Visit Nyakweri Primary School and Village
• Visit the caves containing pre-historic rock
art
• Further afield… day trip by aircraft to
Kakamega Forest – one of Kenya’s premier
bird watching areas
Other
Activities at Little Governors Camp
• Spa
•
Relaxation in Camp
•
Meals & sundowners in the Bush
• Specialist guiding: ornithology, photography
Booking
& Reservations for Little
Governors Camp
situated
along the Mara River in the Masai Mara National Reserve
- Kenya
Booking
Office Tel: + 254 (0) 20 2437871
Mobile
: 0721242711 (Safaricom) - Kenya
Email:
info@africanspicesafaris.com
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