Beside Amboseli’s Kimana Gate, with Kilimanjaro over the trees

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

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

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

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

“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

Plan a stay: https://manjaro-tented-camp.netlify.app