Kicheche uses semi open Land Cruisers for game drives, which can be half day, or all day with picnics.

It's all fairly structured. Dawn departures are common to catch the best light and a greater chance of seeing predators, as they knock off from a night's hunting. You'll go out with one of the camp's guides and spend quite a bit of time by the Mara River, or out on the very beautiful Aitong Plains, scattered with lone desert date trees. The habitat variety of woodland, river and plains means a large variation of mammals and bird life.

Game viewing from Kicheche is excellent in the right season.

Depending in the time of year - whether the Mara Wildebeest Migration is in full flow or not - the woodlands and plains can be literally crowded with herds of wildebeest and zebra on the move. And where there are lots of herbivores, the carnivores are sure to follow. At any time of year at Kicheche, you'll see the resident animals: bushbuck, Thompsons gazelles, topi, giraffe - the list is rich. In the area of this camp, which is a bordering Mara Conservation Area as opposed to the full Maasai Mara Reserve, there is a mixed use practice, so that habitation and human land use other than tourism is permitted. This means quite a few Maasai around, and lots of cattle. This affects the wildlife balance - there are not as many predators as in the reserve, yet large numbers of herd animals are attracted here because the cattle keep the grass short.

So a day out and about in the conservation area will be a fairly varied day, you'll get a sense of how the Maasai live side by side with the wild, as well as a good look at the game.

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Kicheche uses semi open Land Cruisers for game drives, which can be half day, or all day with picnics.

Game viewing from Kicheche is excellent in the right season.