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Governors'
Camp has been voted "the best value hotel in Africa and the Middle East for the
year 2000" by the readers of Travel and Leisure Magazine of the United States.
This is the first time a safari camp in Kenya has received this prestigious
award! T
his award was announced in the March 2001 edition of the magazine, and
also lists Governors' Camp as the 5th best value hotel world-wide! This
continues Governors' record as one of the top five hotels for value world-wide
in this magazine in recent years.
Travel
and Leisure Magazine is one of the leading travel magazines in the USA and we
are very proud that Governors' has been recognized by the readers of this
magazine as the best value hotel in Africa and the Middle East.
We believe this
reflects Governors' Camp's commitment to its principles of world class levels of
comfort, service and value in unpretentious and sympathetic surroundings in one
of the world's prime wildlife areas.
The setting is magical. So much so that almost a
century ago it was reserved, exclusively, for Kenya’s colonial
Governors and their royal visitors. Now Governors’ Camp nestles in the forest along the
winding banks of the Mara River, it’s waters teeming with hippo and
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Accommodation:
| Some of the 38 tents
line the riverbank, others have views across the sweeping
plains. Created in 1972 Governors’ Camp set new standards in
luxury for a tented camp. Today it’s still Africa’s best.
Everything is under canvas, with hot and cold running water and
flushing toilets in every room.
Meals are of our usual
superlative standards, served, as is our style, outdoors during the
day or in our candlelit dining tent. In any Governors’ Camp we’re
happy to cater for all tastes or needs, just let us know.
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. |
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Game
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There’s always excitement in the Mara, dawn as the
animals wake, midday and the shimmering heat, or dusk, perfect for
hunting: a pride of lion stalking zebra, a herd of elephant heading
for the swamps, cheetah cubs playing in the shade. Sights you won’t
forget. Our professional drivers will astonish you with what they
find: a tell-tale vulture will lead them to a hyena kill, a warning
cry from a mother wildebeest reveals a leopard stalking through the
grass. Our four-wheel-drive vehicles are built to our own
specifications. Cut-away roofs give you better views.
Leave your vehicle behind and take a walking safari
with one of our armed-guides for the true thrill of the bush. Down
on the same level as the animals you’ll experience the untamed
beauty of the Mara. You’ll track game, unsure what waits round the next
corner, giraffe, buffalo, even lion. You’ll catch the scents and
sounds of wild Africa. And at the end of it all waits a sumptuous
bush barbecue complete with champagne.
Surrounding the Mara are
the lands of the Masai tribe, a tall, proud race of warriors.
Herding cattle and goats, they’ve lived among the animals for
centuries. We’ll take you to Masai villages to see a way of life
that’s survived almost unchanged for generations.
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MARA BALLOON SAFARIS
| BORNE ON THE BREEZE
ACROSS THE GREAT PLAINS The adventure begins just before dawn.
Flames from the balloon burners light the darkness as the crews
inflate their craft. The first, pink tongues of sunlight flicker
across the skies and the 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. The
thing that 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 . And if you’ve flown elsewhere, you’ve
seen nothing like this. The sounds below drift clearly upwards: a
lion’s roar, elephants crashing through the bush, baboons perched in
the tips of the trees startled and screeching to see something above
them. For an hour or so you drift wherever the air currents take
you. If you’re lucky you’ll climb high above the Mara for the view
of a lifetime. Then your 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. The
difference this breakfast happens in the bush, wherever you land,
and it’s cooked before your eyes on the burners that minutes before
kept you suspended in the air. Mara Balloon Safaris pioneered
game-viewing by hot-air balloon in Africa. Today we operate from
Governors’ Camps . We have some of the world’s most experienced
pilots flying some of the world’s largest balloons. And our
distinctive colors are known the world-over! |
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Please contact us for a suggested
itinerary and quote