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Kicheche Bush Camp, also known as Kicheche Bush Olare, is a small tented camp in Olare Motorogi Conservancy. Five standard tents and a family suite, hosted meals and guiding keep the emphasis on the surrounding wildlife.
Kicheche Bush Olare sits in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy, adjoining the Maasai Mara National Reserve. The camp is unfenced, with a modest collection of canvas accommodation and open-sided lounge and dining spaces facing the plains. Hosted meals and fireside drinks create a sociable atmosphere without elaborate lodge formality. Solar power supplies the camp, and its main attraction is the opportunity to spend extended time on safari in a conservancy with controlled vehicle numbers.
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Accommodation
Accommodation comprises five standard tents and one family suite. Guest tents have en-suite bathrooms with running hot and cold water, showers and flushing toilets. Fans, charging points, drinking-water dispensers and Wi-Fi provide practical comforts, while hammocks offer somewhere to sit outdoors between drives. This remains a tented bush camp rather than a resort; the accommodation is designed to retain the sounds and atmosphere of the surrounding savannah.
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Food & drink
Meals are hosted in the open-sided dining area, with lunches beneath acacias and starlit dinners when conditions allow. The shared table gives the camp an informal, social character. Fireside drinks precede dinner, while the kitchen and guides coordinate breakfast and picnic arrangements around time spent out watching wildlife.
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What to do
Game drives explore Olare Motorogi’s plains and wildlife habitats, with guiding suited to guests who want time at sightings or a strong photographic focus. Guided bush walks add a closer look at tracks and smaller details. Wild camping, a Maa Trust visit and balloon flights can be arranged, subject to availability, suitable ages and separate arrangements. The Great Migration’s position varies, so the conservancy’s resident wildlife remains important throughout the year.
Planning your stay
A family suite is available, and the camp welcomes children aged seven and above. Family suitability should also take account of the unfenced setting and planned activities. The suite’s specific sleeping arrangement can be selected alongside the vehicle plan for the party.
The small camp, social dining and Olare Motorogi position are its defining features. Its appeal lies in thoughtful guiding and extended time in the bush, supported by comfortable tents and practical solar-powered facilities rather than a long list of resort amenities.
Olare Motorogi and the Maasai Mara National Reserve have separate access arrangements and activity rules. Allow for reserve fees when adding a reserve outing. Walking and wild camping have their own age and suitability requirements, beyond the camp’s minimum guest age.
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Maasai Mara
Kicheche Valley Naboisho has six elevated tents on a wooded hillside in Naboisho Conservancy. Its small scale, family suite and programme of drives and walks make it a focused safari base, with more attention on the bush than formal lodge facilities.
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Maasai Mara
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Give Kicheche several nights if photography or unhurried wildlife watching is central to your trip. Pair it with a contrasting Laikipia stay rather than simply repeating the same safari experience elsewhere in the Mara. A conservancy stay can also precede a relaxed beach finish.
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Your questions
Accommodation comprises five standard tents and one family suite. Guest tents have en-suite bathrooms with running hot and cold water, showers and flushing toilets. Fans, charging points, drinking-water dispensers and Wi-Fi provide practical comforts, while hammocks offer somewhere to sit outdoors between drives. This remains a tented bush camp rather than a resort; the accommodation is designed to retain the sounds and atmosphere of the surrounding savannah.
Game drives explore Olare Motorogi’s plains and wildlife habitats, with guiding suited to guests who want time at sightings or a strong photographic focus. Guided bush walks add a closer look at tracks and smaller details. Wild camping, a Maa Trust visit and balloon flights can be arranged, subject to availability, suitable ages and separate arrangements. The Great Migration’s position varies, so the conservancy’s resident wildlife remains important throughout the year.
A family suite is available, and the camp welcomes children aged seven and above. Family suitability should also take account of the unfenced setting and planned activities. The suite’s specific sleeping arrangement can be selected alongside the vehicle plan for the party.
Give Kicheche several nights if photography or unhurried wildlife watching is central to your trip. Pair it with a contrasting Laikipia stay rather than simply repeating the same safari experience elsewhere in the Mara. A conservancy stay can also precede a relaxed beach finish.
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