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Porini Ol Kinyei Safari Cottages

Indulge the serenity of your own 4 bedroom luxury home overlooking one of the most important wildlife conservation and wilderness areas in Africa.

The Porini Ol Kinyei Safari Cottages are your exclusive private home in the world renowned Maasai Mara offering every comfort with the distinct warm service of the Ol Kinyei Maasai and an unbeaten wildlife experience. The cottages feature a wildlife dam on the property, in walking distance from your doorstep
Location: Ol Kinyei Conservancy, Maasai Mara
Type: Luxury Safari Cottages
Special Interests Families, Generational Travel, Private Safari Home, Spectacular Views, Big 5, Birding, Flora, History & Culture, Leisure, Nature, Relaxation, Wildlife

A unique “home away from home” with stunning views across the Mara in the only IUCN Green List Protected area in the Mara eco-system with some of the highest big cat densities and the location of the annual Loita wildebeest calving every year in February and March, with the local community members who know this land intimately as your hosts.

The 4 four-bedroom safari high end safari cottages are on a hillside location with spectacular views over the open plains below. There is a large wildlife dam down from the cottages which is a big draw for wildlife including lions and elephants. The cottages are designed to maximize on these views whilst minimizing the visual impact from the plains. Each Cottage has four spacious bedrooms, all with private bathrooms en-suite. A common lounge with a fireplace for the cold evenings and media room for kids to have a place to unwind, remote working, reviewing and editing the days photographers and so much more.

The design is open where practical – to ‘fit in’ with the surrounds and ethos of a conservation minded development, giving a closeness to nature but without compromising comfort and functionality.

Amenities

Facilities & Activities

Activities

  • Shared day game drives
  • Night game drives
  • Complimentary picnic breakfast
  • Complimetary bush lunches
  • Guided nature walks
  • Bird walks
  • Safari weddings
  • Sundowners
  • Optional balloon safaris, including safari champagne breakfast (at extra cost)
  • Visit of authentic Maasai village (at extra cost )
  • Visit of local school
  • Talks about the community conservation model with manager
  • Star Gazing

Camp facilities

  • 24 hours security
  • Low eco-foot-print
  • Phone charging in all tents/ rooms
  • WiFi in central area and in rooms
  • Complimentary airstrip/ airport transfers from/to Ol Seki Naboisho Airstrip
  • Media lounge
  • Outside dining area
  • Board games
  • Library
  • No credit card payments accepted

Location

Ol Kinyei Conservancy

This 18,700 acre Kenyan wildlife conservancy is on a tranche of land belonging to a Maasai community who leased it to Porini Camps to be set aside for the purposes of wildlife conservation.

Ol Kinyei Conservancy is home to two safari camps, the Porini Mara Camp and Porini Cheetah Camp and the Ol Kinyei Safari Cottages. The is also one small mobile camp called the Porini Bush Camp (high season only). Apart from our eco-camps, no other tourist vehicles are allowed into the Conservancy so our guests have the thousands of acres in the conservancy to themselves but we are also able to have game drives in the neighbouring Naboisho Conservancy which we also support by contributing to the land lease payments to the local Maasai community.

Biodiversity

Maasai Mara Ecosystem

The Maasai Mara ecosystem is home to approximately 25% of Kenya’s wildlife. It hosts more than 95 mammal species besides being a recognized Important Bird Area (IBA) with 550 bird species.

Presently, about 70 per cent of this wildlife is living outside the gazetted conservation area -the Maasai Mara National Reserve. Adjacent land owned by local communities form key dispersal and diversity areas.

DATES-FROM DATES-UNTIL PER ADULT SHARING| PACKAGE SINGLE SUPPLEMENT| PACKAGE PER CHILD SHARING| PACKAGE EXTRA NIGHT PER ADULT SHARING
03-Jan-25 31-Mar-25 2287 USD 356 USD 1548 USD 860 USD
01-Apr-25 30-Jun-25 2007 USD 356 USD 1380 USD 720 USD
01-Jul-25 31-Jul-25 3422 USD 389 USD 2159 USD 1327 USD
01-Aug-25 30-Sep-25 3711 USD 423 USD 2332 USD 1472 USD
01-Oct-25 31-Oct-25 3222 USD 378 USD 2109 USD 1327 USD
01-Nov-25 19-Dec-25 2007 USD 356 USD 1380 USD 720 USD
20-Dec-25 02-Jan-26 3511 USD 423 USD 2282 USD 1472 USD

Prices include:

At Wilson Airport, board schedule flight to Ol Seki Airstrip, met and transferred to Porini Safari Cottages  for 2 nights on full board basis including soft drinks, beer, house wine, vodka, gin & tonic, mineral water, return conservancy airstrip transfers, daily Ol Kinyei & Naboisho Conservancy fees, day & night shared game drives in open sided 4×4 safari vehicle with qualified guide, sundowners, walks with Maasai warriors, and one day Maasai Mara National Reserve entry fee, then last day fly back to Wilson Airport. Porini Wildlife Habitat Trust payment included.

One Day Maasai Mara National Reserve entry fee included from 1st July to 30th September ONLY.

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    Conservation & Responsible Tourism

    Protecting Habitats for Biodiversity

    Porini Camps has been spearheading Community based Wildlife Conservation for the past 25 years in Kenya. We run a range of conservation activities promoting community development and biodiversity in the areas we operate in, the latest being our biodiversity credit program in cooperation with Harvard University, MA, USA.