Little Governors’ Camp is an unpretentious, full-service camp known for offering its guests excellent service as well as very memorable safari experiences. The camp has won multiple awards ever since its establishment in 1976 and continues to receive very positive reviews by both novice and experienced safari travellers. The camp’s reputation for adventure and excitement begins even before you reach it. The local airstrip is frequented by elephants and lions. You never know what kind of wildlife will be waiting to greet you when you arrive. Even after you leave the airstrip, getting to the camp itself is a fun adventure. The camp is located on the edge of the Masai Mara National Reserve and can be reached by going on a very short boat ride across the Mara River and a short hike through the woods. The area surrounding Little Governor’s has a very tropical feel to it. The camp is surrounded by thick riverine forests and wide-open plains. The camp’s seventeen safari tents each have front decks that are each ideally situated to watch the local wildlife visit the popular local waterhole. A small island in the centre of the waterhole is a popular go-to for a wide variety of waterbirds and wader. A delight for birdwatchers.

Aside from the natural beauty that surrounds the camp, the facilities offered by the camp itself are also a thing of a beauty. The camp’s common areas feature very spacious tented lounges and a dining area with tiled floors, comfortable sofas and heavy wooden coffee tables. In the evening a log fire is lit in front of the bar tent to keep the area warm and inviting. The rest of the common areas are lit in the soft light of lanterns. The camp’s bar serves up delicious cocktails and snacks and is a wonderful place to swap safari stories with fellow safari travellers and your Masai guides. The camp also has a small souvenir shop featuring a gallery of wildlife and natural history pictures.

Each of Little Governors’ tented suites are spacious and fully outfitted with everything you may need to make your stay comfortable and enjoyable. The camp’s seventeen massive walk-in tents are sprawled out along the edge of the lagoon under the forest canopy and look out upon the waterhole and the towering Olooloo Escarpment far away in the distance. Some of the tents are relatively close to the common areas and the furthest tents are about 250 metres away from this area. The tents are all the same size, approximately 3 metres in width. The tents’ polished wooden floors and decks are covered with an occasional rug and the tents are furnished with comfy sofas, director’s chairs, a folding front deck table, a small writing table/ dressing table and a luggage rack. The tented suites have luxurious en-suite bathrooms with hot- and cold running water and flushing toilets. Hot water is generated using eco-friendly solar water heaters. Solar energy is also used to generate round-the-clock energy for the tent power sockets. Filtered drinking water is provided in each tent using an eco-friendly reverse osmosis purification system.