| The Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya has many | | | | Masai Mara offers this opportunity. The facilities at |
| tented and permanent camps and lodges for those | | | | Olonana includes a private butler service, an elegant |
| people lucky enough to be on a Masai Mara Safari. | | | | lounge and library, and a swimming pool to cool of |
| For a very high quality camp you need look no further | | | | after one of the many game drives you will |
| than Olonana Olonana is an elegant bush camp on the | | | | experience. Unlike some other camps there is a |
| banks of the Mara River just outside the Masai Mara | | | | generator and solar power, so electricity is not a |
| Reserve's western boundary in Kenya, right at the | | | | problem and the delicate eco system of the Masai |
| heart of Big Game viewing country. It's position enables | | | | Mara is little disturbed. You will enjoy game drives in |
| the lodge to offer the best of both worlds with night | | | | open vehicles giving an undisturbed view of the rich |
| drives, walking safaris, and day time game drives inside | | | | numbers of game including hippo, elephant, prides of |
| the reserve. Olonana has 12 very large and spacious | | | | lion, buffalo, hyena, giraffe, and several species of |
| permanent tents, each with two queen sized beds, | | | | gazelle. You are also likely to see cheetah, leopard, |
| ensuite bathrooms and hot showers, and each with a | | | | and even rhino if you are lucky, and you can be sure |
| large veranda with a great view of the river, where | | | | your guides are well trained experts. It isn't just the fact |
| you will get great views of hippo especially in the | | | | that your guides on your Masai Mara Safari are |
| evenings as you are enjoying your sundowner prior to | | | | experts, it's the passion of the guides that makes all |
| dinner. Importantly the tents have floor to ceiling | | | | the difference. They obviously love what they do and |
| mosquito netting windows for your protection. One | | | | this transmits itself over and over again. All you have |
| fear you need not have is walking back to your tent at | | | | to do is to ask if it is possible to view a particular |
| night, because you will always be taken and fetched | | | | animal, and if it is, then you will almost certainly get |
| by a very nice man with a torch and a stick. Dinner | | | | closer than you could ever believe possible. They go |
| which is, as are all the meals, delicious can be taken in | | | | out of there way so willingly. The same is true of the |
| the dining room overlooking the river, or if you wish | | | | staff at Olonana, for whom nothing is too much trouble. |
| meals can be taken on the Siria escarpment | | | | If you won't or can't eat something, then alternatives |
| overlooking the Mara plains, or deep in the bush as a | | | | are readily produced, and always with a smile. It is true |
| picnic. If food is important to you then a Masai Mara | | | | to say that visiting the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya |
| Safari staying here will delight even the most jaded of | | | | for part of your in Kenya Safari is a must, but to stay |
| palates. What is unique about Olonana is that it exists | | | | at Olonana is an experience you will never forget. |
| in partnership with the Masai people, so you will have | | | | Peter Stewart writes about in Kenya Safaris as well |
| an opportunity to view the day to day lives of these | | | | as Worldwide Vacation Spots He also recommends |
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