We’ll be sure to request Timothy for our next safari. We were so happy when he joined us on our bush dinner and told us stories from his childhood growing up Maasai and the adventures he’s had as a guide. He spent twelve hours one day driving us around to see all that was happening on the Mara, serving as a spotter and picnic lunch host as well. Timothy asked everyone in our group what we hoped to see, and he did his best to ensure we saw all of it.
KICHWA TEMBO EMAIL ADDRESS DRIVER
Our driver and guide on this trip was even better. We nearly bounced out of our seats as he sped us to any action happening nearby. He tore across the savannah to get us to the sights, including a cheetah stalking some prey. The safari driver we had on our first trip, Luke, was a daring guide. And we still had the tea and hot chocolate, cleverly placed in a pass-through door so we could be leisurely about getting out of bed. Our tent looked out over the tall grass of the Mara, and each morning we woke to the views of giraffe, zebra, and other wildlife parading across the open front of our tent. I’m not sure we’ve stayed in any “hotel room” quite like this one. Our accommodations on this trip in the newly renovated camp were so beautiful that I nearly cried from the sheer joy and delight of it. So imagine our surprise and delight when we discovered that Kichwa had kicked it up and notch, and completely redefined glamping. We thought those tents were the definition of glamping. Hot water bottles warmed our beds each night, and we were woken each morning with a call of, “Good morning! Tea and hot chocolate!” and a reminder that we needed to retrieve our tray right away, lest the monkeys we heard chirping to their friends and bouncing on our tent top got there before we did. We adored the Hemingway-style tents nestled in the woods on our first three visits. We will never go to Kichwa Tembo and not enjoy a bush dinner. Hippos in the nearby river provide a soundtrack, with occasional features of hyena chatter, zebras barking, and wildebeest calling. Lanterns hanging from trees illuminate the scene perfectly labeled as a fantasy date from The Bachelor by a friend of ours on a previous trip. For $60 a person, we enjoyed a meal prepared by a private chef and served by a private dining staff in one of the most magical safari settings you can imagine in the middle of the African savannah. One experience that isn’t to be missed is the bush dinner. The menu each night is varied and offers something to appeal to every taste. The soup starters are some of my personal favorites, combining flavors I’d never think to combine: from carrot and coconut to cucumber and ginger, the soup had me at hello at every meal. The food at Kichwa is out-of-this-world good. If I’m really honest, this is what I was most anticipating. We choose Kichwa Tembo for very specific reasons. But we don’t continue to choose Kichwa time after time just because of the animals in the Mara. There are plenty of places in the Mara that offer safari game drives, and there were others who saw the sights we did. Our first visit to Kichwa was in 2008, and we were immediately hooked. All of that-all that we could conjure-is alive and well at &Beyond Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp in the Masai Mara in Kenya. The adrenaline of a predator stalking its prey. The glamour of the jeeps cutting through tall grass, binoculars positioned to spot the elusive leopard.
The thrill of spotting a lion, a cheetah, an elephant. Think about safari, and you may conjure the romance and exotic nature of a drive through the African bush in your mind.
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