Ol Kanjau Tented Safari Camp
Amboseli’s Camp of the Elephants at the foot of Kilimanjaro Is Ol Kanjau Tented Safari Camp.
Located midway between the forests of Kilimanjaro and the perennial swamps of Amboseli Park, Ol Kanjau Tented Safari Camp is widescreen Africa at its most classic.
The Amboseli elephants live on one of the most productive rangelands in Africa. They are Africa’s best studied elephant population, and have the oldest and biggest individuals left on the continent because they have been so well protected from poachers, drought and human behaviour.
The Greater Amboseli Ecosystem is large scale Africa. Often referred to as the Kilimanjaro heartland by conservationists, the Greater Amboseli Region is a critical bridge ecosystem that links the vast Tsavo National Parks in the East to the Great Rift Valley and the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystems in the West.
When you stay at Ol Kanjau Tented Safari Camp you are at the center of Kenya’s richest African Savannah Ecosystem and one that is the best studied and most understood.
The pace at Ol Kanjau is unhurried, but directed at providing our guests with clear and sustained access to widescreen traditional and natural Africa, well away from most things modern, including masses of other tourists.
In Maasai, Ol Kanjau means Elephants!
The light structure of a traditional tented safari camp maintains the most direct contact with the natural world that we can sustain. It reminds us that the natural world is too often diminished by the permanent structures that people now build everywhere. Too often permanent boutique lodges and camps seem grand in inverse proportion to the amount and quality of wildlife that remains nearby.
At Ol Kanjau your hosts are camp owners, Mike and Judy Rainy. They first visited Amboseli 37 years ago when they began what has become a lifelong interest in how the pastoral people of East Africa and their livestock interact with wildlife and natural ecosystem processes.
