- Tier
- Comfort
- Style
- Safari lodge
- Size
- 99 rooms
- Region
- Maasai Mara
- Nearest airstrip
- Keekorok
- Drive from strip
- 1 hr
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.
Mara Sopa Lodge sits in the rolling Oloolaimutia Hills just outside the reserve's south-eastern Oloolaimutia Gate, built as clusters of African-styled rondavels around landscaped grounds and a swimming pool. It is a larger, more affordable property popular with groups and self-driving visitors. Game drives head into the reserve through the nearby gate to reach the open plains.
Flying in
The nearest airstrip is Keekorok, about 1 hr by road from the lodge. 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
Mara Sopa Lodge sits in Maasai Mara. These are the routes we run through it — each one rebuilt around you, with your choice of camp.
7-Day Luxury Kenya Flying Safari: Meru & Maasai Mara
A seven-day luxury Kenya flying safari connecting the untamed 'Born Free' wilderness of Meru National Park with the Great Migration plains of the Maasai Mara — direct bush flights, luxury lodges and Big Five game viewing throughout.
View this safari →8 days8-Day Luxury Kenya Fly-In Safari: Samburu & Maasai Mara
An eight-day luxury Kenya fly-in safari pairing the rugged Kalama Conservancy in Samburu — home of the Samburu Special Five and the community-owned Reteti Elephant Sanctuary — with the Big Five plains and Great Migration of the Maasai Mara.
View this safari →10 days10-Day Luxury Kenya Fly-In Safari: Meru, Samburu & Maasai Mara
A ten-day luxury Kenya fly-in safari through three wildlife regions — the 'Born Free' wilderness of Meru, the Samburu Special Five and Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in the north, and the Great Migration plains of the Maasai Mara.
View this safari →Other places to stay nearby
Basecamp 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.