Nashulai Maasai Community Conservancy

Founded in 2016 as the first community-created and governed conservancy in the Maasai Mara, Nashulai spans 5,000 acres of critical wildlife corridor linking the Mara National Reserve with surrounding conservancies. Here, indigenous Maasai pastoralists have removed boundary fences to restore ancient migration routes for elephants and big cats.

At Nashulai Maasai Conservancy you can sleep in a hilltop tented camp, in a dome tent out on the plains or beside a Maasai homestead. Wageni, the flagship camp, sits halfway up a wooded hill, with large tents, private terraces and an Africa-shaped infinity pool looking out across the Mara. Neighbouring Oldarpoi is larger and more informal, its simpler tents shaded by native trees and busy with birdlife. Both camps are unfenced, and zebra and antelope regularly wander through.

Only Nashulai guests can drive in the conservancy, so sightings are rarely crowded. Track the resident lion pride, elephant herds of 30 or more in Nashulai East, and wildebeest calving on the secret plain from January to March. Walk out with a Maasai guide and an armed ranger, or drive five minutes into the Masai Mara. Join a ranger patrol setting camera traps and meet students at the conservancy’s guide training college.