Luxery canvas tent

Romantic dining

Location of lodge	Masai Mara
Kwalification
Number of rooms	Governors camp has 37 luxery tents right located in the heart of the Masai Mara  24 Twins, 12 double tents, 1 Suite (Justus Suite)
Facilities	All tents are classic safari style each with en-suite bathrooms with hot and cold water and flushing toillet and a private verandah.
Restaurants	Breakfast and lunch served in the open air and dinner in the dining tent.
Credit cards	Visa, Mastercard, Eurocard, American Express and Traveller Cheques are accepted
Communcation	Telephone, Fax and Email in camp.  A satellite telephone is available. Radio contact with other camps and the Nairobi office
Entertainment
(Sport)facilities	Walking safaris, hot air balloon,  cultural visits
Electricity	Gas and Paraffin lamps in the tents 220-240  plugs available at the reception

Description : Our guest tents are now much bigger, lighter and brighter with new beige tents, new larger bathrooms and extended verandahs. The camp is looking stunning.
Some of the tents have views across the sweeping plains of the Masai Mara, others look over the banks of the meandering Mara River.

Governors' Camp is situated on the banks of the Mara River in the west of the Masai Mara Game Reserve. Created in 1972, it set new standards in luxury as a tented camp, putting particular emphasis on comfort and service, complimented by the sort of good food, which would have been impossible in the bygone days of the grand safari. Maintaining these unique qualities as a tradition, the camp has been refined and improved through the years.

We have taken special care to preserve an atmosphere in which today's traveller can share the same elemental landscape that inspired Hemingway and magnetised adventurers the world over.

The site and size of a safari camp is critical to its vitality. Governors' Camp, with its 37 tents set amongst the trees along the Mara river, also has unrivalled views over the plains and is visited and re-visited by guests who find its continued excellence, personal style and family feeling quietly reassuring.

All guest facilities are under canvas and keep the authentic, traditional safari atmosphere. All guest tents have en-suite bathrooms with shower and basin, running cold and hot water as well as a flush toilet. Gas and paraffin lamps are used for lighting.

Our privately located Justus Suite is perfect for honeymoon couples, as is tent 37 which has incredible views over the Mara plains and its wildlife.

The dining tent, our campfire and the bar tent are the centre of the camp.  Next to the reception is a small gallery with local paintings and handcrafts as well as a small souvenir shop. Breakfast and lunch are served buffet style, alfresco. Dinner is served in the dining tent. For dinner the menu offers a choice of four courses, including a choice of main courses. A traditional campfire is lit at sunset every evening and after dinner clients enjoy sitting around the campfire, reminiscing about their safari in its evocative light.

The Masai Mara is a unique area with a constant and unrivalled flow of wildlife throughout the year. From July to October the Mara becomes a backdrop for one of the last great natural wonders of the world, when 1.5 million wildebeest and zebra surge up from the Serengeti plains in their annual search for the seasonal grasses that sustain them. The spectacle as the vast herds cross rivers and sweep through the golden grasses, is punctuated by individual struggles with the predators, which are in turn drawn to take their part in this dramatic event.  Whilst the migration is spectacular, game viewing at all other times of the year remains almost unrivalled anywhere in Africa.