Mara Expedition Camp is Great Plains Conservation's smallest and least expensive Kenyan camp, pitched in a grove of acacias overlooking a valley, with game drives run in both the Maasai Mara National Reserve and the Mara North Conservancy. The Mara North Conservancy lists it among its member camps. Drives are full-day where guests want them, with picnic meals carried in open vehicles, and there is no fixed daily schedule. Balloon flights are chargeable. Other activities the operator lists are botanical walks with the camp's horticulturist, kitchen sessions with the chefs, and cultural visits arranged through the Naboisho Women's Group. Rates include air transfers from Nairobi Wilson on a two-night minimum.
What sets it apart
It runs without a fixed activity timetable, so guests set departure times and full-day drives themselves rather than following camp schedules.
Who it suits
Flexible full-day game drives; small parties; combining reserve and conservancy.
The essentials
| Country | Kenya |
| Where | Greater Maasai Mara — Great Plains places it in a valley in the Maasai Mara Reserve with access to Mara North Conservancy; Mara North Conservancy lists it as a member camp |
| Property type | tented camp |
| Rooms | unverified — Great Plains states "five double guest tents and one two-bedroomed family tent" (six units) while Go2Africa states four tents for a maximum of eight guests |
What it costs
Mara Expedition Camp publishes its own rates. Published on the official site: "From $1,225 per person sharing per night", per https://greatplainsconservation.com/mara-expedition-camp-affordable-kenya-safari/, as listed September 2026.
Rates move by season and are almost always quoted per person per night sharing, so read the property's own page before you budget.
About the photographs
The pictures on this page are stock photographs of African bush and desert country, chosen to suggest the kind of landscape you find around the Greater Maasai Mara, Kenya. They are not photographs of this property, and we cannot verify where any of them was taken — a stock library records the photographer, not the place. We use them rather than borrow the property's own marketing images, which would imply we had been there. For pictures of the rooms, see the property's own site.