“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up.  It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle…when [...]

It is with great excitement that we announce the first official sighting of Acacia’s cub by Mara Plains guests in the river line thicket to the north of the camp. Her cub is now approximately six weeks old  it is is cautiously finding its arboreal feet and balance which will greatly improve its chances of [...]

This week in the Olare Orok Conservancy has been a busy one. The two cheetah brothers (there were three but one was bitten by a snake at the end of last year) have spent the last few days on the plains just north of Mara Plains. The majority of the wildlife has been up in [...]

July has been truly spectacular here at Mara Plains. At the start of the first week word reached us in camp that the Great Migration from the south had crossed the Talek River and was heading our way! Unable to wait patiently, guests and staff alike drove out to park on hill tops, sit on [...]

Yesterday, as the midday heat shimmered off the Masai Mara plains, guests out on a drive watched as a herd of wildebeest, which had been cautiously heading towards the Olare river, suddenly exploded in all directions. When the dust settled, there in the middle of the mayhem was a beautiful male leopard holding down a [...]

The night before last, honeymooning Lions walked through the camp roaring as they went. At about 4am they stopped to mate behind tent number three, while the guests slept peacefully through the whole thing! Last night while walking to the parking area to see guests come back from their evening game drive, in I came [...]