Karen Blixen Camp is an eco-friendly luxury camp, that gives a sense of the exiting explorer days when the savannah was seldom visited and elaborate and comfortable camps were set up providing a luxurious and stylish retreat after each day’s adventure
Karen Blixen Camp comprises 22 large luxury canvas tents each hotel with an undisturbed view of the Mara River. The stylish restaurant, the reception, the lounge and bar area and the gift shop with internet are set on a raised wooden deck and furnished with accurate reproductions of Karen Blixen’s private furniture to fit in with the cozy atmosphere.
The beautifully laid swimming pool offers relaxation and even a little exercise in-between game drives. Our resident masseuse offers a wide range of wellness and beauty treatments.
Karen Blixen Camp is the perfect hotel to sit back and relax with a gin and tonic overlooking the Mara River and the wildlife coming to drink, whilst exchanging stories about the adventures of the day.
Karen Blixen Camp encompasses 22 large luxury canvas tents – each set on a beautiful wooden platform with a spacious veranda. On the cushion daybeds, one can enjoy an afternoon siesta, taking in the wonderful surroundings.
Each tent is en-suite and furnished with a large comfortable bed, Persian rugs, a cozy armchair and a minibar with chilled drinks giving you the ultimate in camping luxury. The private bathroom has a flush toilet, twin wash hand basins and a romantic outside shower with amazing view to the sky. The water is heated up by gas burners to avoid any use of firewood and thus conserving the Mara Woodlands. Electricity is provided in all tents 24 hours a day by extended solar panel system and battery storing bank.
Tents can be configured for either double or twin occupancy, where under prior arrangement a 3rd and even 4th bed can be added for children below the age of 12. Our family unit consists of two tents with a shared veranda.
The open plan ‘mess’ area, built on a raised wooden deck, is beautifully located on the banks of the Mara River overlooking a resident hippo pod providing our guests with endless entertainment.
The mess area comprises the reception, the restaurant and the lounge area with a home-style bar. Comfortable sofas give a welcoming and cozy retreat for the weary traveler while enjoying a before-dinner drink.
Around the campfire one can share the safari adventure of the day, listen to the sounds of the night and look at the magnificent African starlit sky.
Karen Blixen was passionate about cooking and found her inspiration in the French, English, Italian and Danish kitchens. Through historical books, we have found many of her original recipes, and dining at the Camp brings back the days of the early 1920-30’s.
Modern day’s love for cosmopolitan food with clear notes from the Far East, India or Africa’s own traditional cooking is also served at our table alongside a comprehensive selection of the continent’s finest wines.
Breakfasts lunches and dinners are served in the restaurant or bush garden from where one has an incredibly close view of the Mara River and the wild animals coming to drink.
Romantic bush dinners
We arrange the most amazingly set bush breakfasts and lunches at carefully selected areas, offering guests the most spectacular view of the savannah and as the perfect surprise after an exciting morning game drive.
If one wishes to venture a little further, one can also enjoy a romantic bush dinner set beneath the starlit African night.
Home cooking and gastronomic trends
Frederik Olesen, an internationally experienced chef inspires our chefs to the latest homemade cookery and gastronomic trends using lots of fresh herbs and flowers from our own organic garden.
We accommodate a very international clientele and one should feel safe that menus will always reflect a variety of choices. Succulent beef or lamb, grilled fish or lavishly vegetarian dishes is made of the very finest locally produced ingredients.
Our meat comes from the ranches around Mount Kenya and selected by our butcher in Nairobi, fruits are grown in the coastal areas and vegetables come from the Kenyan highlands.
Being out in one of the world’s most beautiful hotels’s one should really relax and enjoy a comforting wellness treatment or a therapeutic body massage whilst listening to the rich birdlife and the sounds of the Mara River flowing by.
Going on a safari in the beautiful Masai Mara is all about appreciating the wonderful and amazing wildlife. And about slowing down and taking time off to truly pamper yourself and the one you love.
Therapy and wellness
Karen Blixen Camp offer a wide range of wellness treatments and therapeutic body massages using organic African oils only.
Our beautiful laid swimming pool with sun-beds and umbrellas assure recreation or even a little exercise in-between game drives.
Our wellness therapist has trained in the centuries-old African Kukanda (massage) tradition. Relaxing in the privacy of your outdoor verandah; wellness treatments are focused on improved energy.
Therapies entail mild pressure facial massages, head and neck massages and deep tissue body massages using ranges of different strokes, kneading and comforting fractions of varied compressions.