Getting around · Maasai Mara
ClassicAshnil Mara Camp
Riverside tented camp · 30 tented suites · Maasai Mara, Kenya
- Tier
- Classic
- Style
- Riverside tented camp
- Size
- 30 tented suites
- Region
- Maasai Mara
- Nearest airstrip
- Ol Kiombo
Thirty tented suites on the banks of the Mara River inside the Maasai Mara National Reserve, close to the crossing points the migration herds use between roughly July and October.
Ashnil Mara Camp is run by Ashnil Hotels and sits on the Mara River within the reserve, so game drives start at the camp rather than at a gate. The tents look out over the river, and the camp has a pool, a small wellness centre with a gym, solar power and an all-year season; Wi-Fi reaches only some areas. Breakfast beside the hippo pool is one of its set pieces. Guests fly into Keekorok or Ol Kiombo airstrip, or drive from Nairobi in five to six hours.
Flying in
The nearest airstrip is Ol Kiombo. See the real fly-in routes and how the rest of the region connects on the Getting Around map.
Open the fly-in mapEach Wildtouch safari is quoted individually — rates depend on your dates, the camps you choose and how it all links together. Wildtouch prices the whole journey, not a per-night sticker.
Safaris that visit Maasai Mara
Ashnil Mara Camp sits in Maasai Mara. These are the routes we run through it — each one rebuilt around you, with your choice of camp.
5-Day Maasai Mara Safari from Nairobi
Three nights in the Maasai Mara, reached by road across the Great Rift Valley — two full days of game drives for big cats, elephant and the plains herds, a night in Nairobi on arrival and a farewell dinner at the Carnivore before your flight home.
View this safari →7 daysMaasai Mara Safari & Meru
A seven-day luxury Maasai Mara safari and Kenya fly-in, connecting the untamed 'Born Free' wilderness of Meru National Park with the Great Migration plains of the Mara — direct bush flights, luxury lodges and Big Five game viewing throughout.
View this safari →7 days7-Day Classic Kenya Safari: Lake Nakuru & Maasai Mara
Rhino at Lake Nakuru, then the big cats of the Maasai Mara — a week by road through the Great Rift Valley, with two nights in a fenced rhino sanctuary and three in Kenya's best-known reserve.
View this safari →Other places to stay nearby
Mara Sopa Lodge
Sound value in the Oloolaimutia Hills just outside the reserve's south-eastern gate, with a large pool and rondavel-style rooms — a practical, budget-conscious base for travellers who want to keep costs down without camping.
ComfortBasecamp Masai Mara
A pioneering eco-camp on the Talek River, widely recognised for community-led conservation, a tree-planting nursery and Maasai cultural programmes, offering good value at the reserve's edge.
ClassicSarova Mara Game Camp
A long-established, reliably-run tented camp on rising ground in the eastern Maasai Mara, near Sekenani Gate with a swimming pool, spa and a strong reputation for catering to families and larger groups — a dependable mid-upper Mara pick.
ClassicMara Serena Safari Lodge
Perched on a hill inside the Mara Triangle with commanding views over the Mara River — one of the few lodges genuinely positioned to watch the Great Migration river crossings from its own ridge.
ClassicGovernors' Camp
The Mara's original luxury tented camp, founded in 1972 on a private forested bend of the Mara River beside the game-rich Musiara Marsh, putting guests in the heart of the reserve's big-cat country.
ClassicMara Intrepids Tented Camp
A long-running Heritage Hotels camp on the Talek River at the meeting point of the reserve's four main game areas, with the Ol Kiombo airstrip just minutes away.
LuxuryLittle Governors' Camp
Reached only by a short boat crossing of the Mara River, the camp encircles its own resident-game waterhole and marsh, an intimate alternative to its larger sister camp.
LuxuryandBeyond Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp
Sits at the foot of the Oloololo Escarpment on a private concession at the edge of the Mara Triangle, with sweeping views over the plains where the migration crosses.
LuxuryAsilia Naboisho Camp
A relaxed Asilia camp on a wooded hillside in the high-density-wildlife Mara Naboisho Conservancy, one of the Mara's strongest lion areas, with walking safaris and night drives permitted.
LuxuryAsilia Rekero Camp
Pitched on a bend of the Talek River metres from a major wildebeest crossing point, so the migration spectacle can be watched from the camp deck in season.
LuxurySaruni Mara
A boutique lodge of stone-and-thatch cottages tucked into a forested valley beside the Mara's only remaining indigenous forest, home to colobus and Sykes' monkeys, in the Mara North Conservancy.
Ultimate luxuryAngama Mara
Suspended on the edge of the Oloololo Escarpment with floor-to-ceiling glass framing 'Out of Africa' views over the entire Mara Triangle — a design-led, owner-run lodge with a beadwork studio and its own photographic guiding.
Ultimate luxuryCottar's 1920s Camp
A family-owned, vintage 1920s-styled safari camp in its own private conservancy on the Mara's south-eastern boundary, offering night drives, walking and an authentic old-world safari atmosphere away from the crowds.
Ultimate luxuryMahali Mzuri
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Limited Edition camp, a striking contemporary design perched on a ridge in the exclusive, low-density Olare Motorogi Conservancy with private off-road and night driving.
Ultimate luxuryMara Plains Camp
An ultra-exclusive Great Plains Conservation camp of only seven canvas suites, founded by film-makers Dereck and Beverly Joubert, on a private stretch beside the Ntiakitiak River.