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GOVERNORS' CAMP
WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD!
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!
This 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. |
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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
crocodile.
Here’s how
Travel
and Leisure Magazine described us when it’s readers voted us fourth in
‘The Top 10 Hotels in the World’ in 1998. "Governors’ Camp is a site
popular with both animals (who come to the river to drink) and
people. As in the past the hotel emphasizes enjoying the wild
splendors of Africa in the highest possible style. Guests stay in
well-appointed canvas tents, each with its own bathroom. Evenings
are devoted to cocktails around a bonfire and dinner by
candlelight." |
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The camp consists of 17 tents...Today it’s still Africa’s best. Everything is under
canvas, with hot and cold running water and flushing toilets in
every room. Each morning a breakfast feast is prepared over blazing coals:
mountains of bacon, eggs the way you like them, fresh milk flown-in
daily, hot-baked croissants, exotic fruits, and freshly-brewed Kenya
coffee.
Lunch, like breakfast is a buffet, this time roast meats hot
and cold, fresh salads and delicious desserts. Both meals are served
on the shady riverbank with views across the Mara’s plains. |
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Game Drives / Activities
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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 four-wheel-drive vehicles are built to our own specifications.
Cut-away roofs give you better views. 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.
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. |
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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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