Our last “safari” lodge was Mara Bushtops which is situated on a private conservancy right off of the Masai Mara park. We arrived after an hour-long flight over the verdant Mt. Kenya highlights to a tiny airstrip without a single building but our safari crew was there to meet us.
We had booked the Leopard Family tent which was absolutely fabulous and really was a case study in how opulent you could make a facility and still call it a “tent”. It was certainly the first (and will probably be the last) tent I’ve stayed in that had its own hot tub and wine wall.
That afternoon we took a game drive staying within a kilometer or so of the lodge but still managed to see plenty of wildlife including a lion checking out game at the water hole – we even got a picture of the lion and our tent in the same frame. This seemed very cool to be situated right in the middle of a heavy wildlife zone but the next night when we heard a pride of lions take down and then noisily eat a zebra only a few meters from our tent it took on a different feel.
