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title: "Beside Amboseli’s Kimana Gate, with Kilimanjaro over the trees"
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date: "2026-11-12T14:08:06.885Z"
updated: "2026-11-12T14:08:06.000Z"
description: "Manjaro Tented Camp sits beside Kimana Gate of Amboseli National Park: canvas tents on timber stilts, full-board meals on the lawn under red Maasai-check cloths, walks with a Maasai guide, and Kilimanjaro over the trees on a clear morning."
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Manjaro Tented Camp stands beside Kimana Gate of Amboseli National Park, opposite Sentrim, in Kajiado County. On a clear morning, Kilimanjaro rises over the trees behind the tents.

## Next door to the park

Kimana Gate is the camp’s neighbour, so a game drive is inside Amboseli almost as soon as it sets out. The camp arranges drives into the park with a driver-guide, for half a day or a full one. Amboseli’s elephants are there all year round.

![An elephant with long tusks feeding in green scrub in Amboseli, Kilimanjaro’s snow cap above the clouds behind](https://manjarotentedcamp.slopit.io/_media/biwq38zi.jpg)

## Canvas on timber stilts

Each tent stands on timber stilts under its own roof, with wooden steps up to a veranda. The canvas walls have wide mesh windows, so there is bush on every side.

![A tent on timber stilts under a tan roof, wooden steps leading up to a veranda with a red-check table, acacias around it](https://manjarotentedcamp.slopit.io/_media/suhweyt2.jpg)

Inside, wooden beds with mosquito nets stand on a stone floor, with folding chairs and a small table. The bathroom at the back is tiled, with a basin on a dark stone counter, a flush toilet and a hot shower.

The tents are made up for one, two or three: a single, a double with a king-size bed, a twin with two beds, and a triple with three.

![Two wooden beds with blue quilts and tied-up nets, folding wooden chairs and a small table on a stone floor, mesh windows behind](https://manjarotentedcamp.slopit.io/_media/krh9g47r.jpg)

## Breakfast facing the mountain

Stays are full board. Meals are served in the dining hall, which has a bar, or out on the lawn at tables laid with red Maasai-check cloths. On a clear morning, breakfast faces Kilimanjaro.

![Breakfast on a red-check tablecloth beside a low wall, an acacia hung with weaver nests and Kilimanjaro faint on the horizon](https://manjarotentedcamp.slopit.io/_media/qztgcgqh.jpg)

> “If you are lucky and Kilimanjaro is clear early in the morning you will have a stunning view just outside of your tent.” — Dimitris Kalimeris, quoted on the camp’s website

In the evening a fire is lit in a round stone pit on the lawn, with log stools set around it.

## On foot with a Maasai guide

Walks go out through the camp’s own conservancy with a Maasai guide, reading tracks and bones on the way. The camp also arranges visits to a Maasai village nearby. Its own website names Henry as the manager in charge.

![A Maasai guide in a red shuka pointing a stick at an animal skull and bones on dry ground in the bush](https://manjarotentedcamp.slopit.io/_media/g8b2sd4q.jpg)

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