Saruni is in the Koiyaki conservation area which borders the Maasai Mara Reserve, where walking is permitted and there's more freedom of movement.

You can also see more of the Maasai culture as you'll inevitably drive past small settlements as you move around the area on your game drives. Game drives can be great, though animals are not quite as on your plate as in the reserve proper, they're slightly less concentrated and shyer. William, the main guide at Saruni is much respected and will nevertheless ensure an entertaining drive, as will his cohort Phillip.

Saruni doesn't actively encourage visits to Maasai homes though,

as unlike somewhere like Rekero, they're not as yet set up for it. This is a responsible angle to take: unless these visits are done properly they can be predatory, and interfering. A slight disadvantage of being so tucked in the hills is there's only one road in and out, a fairly long one - about half and hour - which is not that exciting game wise, this could be a bit of a nuisance if you're doing two game drives a day. Better to go for whole days out with picnics.

A Saruni bush dinner which you'll probably be taken out on once during your stay are wonderfully set at a table laid out under the yellow fever trees open to the stars, just over half an hours drive from camp. They put fly camps here too Sometimes they walk up Kileleoni Hill just behind camp for drinks in front of the sunset.

Even if you don't feel like going anywhere when you're at Saruni, which happens sometimes -

safaris can be tiring - there's good game around the camp and Ricardo attracts them with a salt lick to a clearing on the hillside opposite which is visible from all rooms. And while you're at it, you can get a massage at the “Maasai well being centre” from a Maasai lady from the local village who's been trained in Italy.

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Activities, Saruni Camp, Mara Conservation Area

Saruni is in the Koiyaki conservation area which borders the Maasai Mara Reserve, where walking is permitted and there's more freedom of movement.

Saruni doesn't actively encourage visits to Maasai homes though,

Even if you don't feel like going anywhere when you're at Saruni, which happens sometimes -