Before booking a Kenya Safari holiday, perhaps even a honeymoon in Kenya, you need to do your homework. 

It is possible you may never have heard of Campi Ya Kanzi which is in the Chyulu Hills national Park, but this would be the ideal place for a luxury African safari. 

Campi Ya Kanzi means ‘Camp of The concealed Treasure’, but effectively for you the hidden treasure is the sheer quality of this luxury tented safari camp in Southern Kenya, which is sort of in the shade of Mt.  Kilimanjaro which is only 35 miles away, and it lies within a four hundred square mile non-public ranch. 

There are excellent features concerning Campi Ya Kanzi making it an outstanding base for a luxury African safari and some of them are as follows. 

The maximum number of guests is limited to 14 in six thatched roof tented cottages, and the two apartments called Hemingway and Simba.  Each tented cottage is formed of stones fabric and wood. 

The tented cottages all have different views and are extremely private, only 1 reason that Campi Ya Kanzi is a complete must visit on a honeymoon in Kenya. 

The suites all feature a king size bed, a dressing room, and the bathrooms have double wash hand basins. 

The cottages have either twin or king size beds, and have like the apartments a fullsize bath, shower, bidet, flush toilet and cold and warm running water.  Electricity is supplied by a solar system to each cottage. 

Elegance is added to by the proven fact that the plumbing fixtures are brass, and fresh flowers are replaced every day. 

Each cottage as Camp Ya Kanzi has a wide porch with superb views of Mt.  Kilimanjaro and the Tsavo Hills. 

Each guesthouse has a designated Maasai attendant, and at night the camp is patrolled by guards so you can feel safe and totally secure at Campi Ya Kanzi. 

The meals are all served at Tembo House which is the clubhouse at the epicentre of the camp.  Like the cottages it is created of local materials and thatch.  It is open to the outside and the perspectives of Kilimanjaro from the patio are to put it mildly spectacular.  It also has a huge lounge for relaxing reading and having a quiet drink. 

Tembo House is more like being a guest in a friend’s home than an hotel.  Even dining is at a big wooden family dining table, set with quality china, silverware and crystal to further this impression, and food which has an Italian theme, and is naturally home cooked by specifically trained chefs is superb, but stands alongside local and international dishes, and vegetables from the vegetable garden, local fresh milk and eggs from the chickens. 

Campi Ya Kanzi has 2 goals, the first of which is to help the Maasai preserve their wildlife heritage.  The second is to give you the most notable holiday of your life. 

Your safari day will begin with tea or coffee brought to your cottage by your Maasai attendant, and then after enjoying the view from the verandah you’ll have a morning game drive, or if you would like a walk.  Breakfast follows with fresh local fruit, then possibly an escorted safari on foot.  Campi Ya Kanzi is famous and rightly so for its foot safaris.  The Maasai game trackers will go out first, then you’ll follow in your own vehicle, getting close enough to whatever game you have indicated you need to see.  It is then on foot, with your armed professional guide and the trackers.  In this fashion you will get close and private, whilst remaining safe at any time. 

All of this is so far as you can get from the mass auto pursuit of animals in the Masai Mara, and indeed you’ll never desire it any other way in the future. 

all of the activity in the bush is what you want and not part of a stiff program.  You will almost certainly see all the giant five, but on foot, and what may be more exciting than that. 

if you’d like to take a luxury African safari, or have your honeymoon in Kenya, then Campi Ya Kanzi could be the only answer and the fact every dollar you spend helps the Maasai preserve their wildlife heritage.

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