Sand River Masai Mara is an Elewana Collection camp inside the Maasai Mara National Reserve, on the banks of the Sand River close to the Tanzanian border and the Serengeti boundary. Its 16 tents, one of them a family tent, are split between two separate camp areas, each with its own dining and lounge space, which keeps guest numbers low in each mess. The styling follows 1920s safari-camp conventions. Guests game-drive in the southern part of the reserve, an area known for resident big cats, and balloon flights operate nearby. Because the camp is on reserve land, off-road driving and night drives are not permitted.
What sets it apart
Splitting 16 tents across two physically separate camps with their own mess areas is unusual in the reserve and gives each half the guest density of an eight-tent camp.
Who it suits
Far southern Mara game drives; big cats; quieter reserve location.
The essentials
| Country | Kenya |
| Where | Maasai Mara National Reserve, on the Sand River near the Tanzanian border, Narok County |
| Property type | tented camp (split into two separate camps) |
| Rooms | 16 — Elewana states the camp "comprises of 16-tented accommodations - including 1 family tent"; Go2Africa independently gives 16 canvas suites divided into two camps of six and ten |
What it costs
No rate is published on the property's own site. Third-party reseller range only, not an official published rate: "€765–€1,185 per person sharing (or $889–$1,373 USD)" per https://www.go2africa.com/accommodation/sand-river-masai-mara, as listed September 2026.
A reseller's range tells you the bracket, not the price you would pay. We show it because it is the only public figure that exists, and we label it rather than present it as the property's own.
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 Laikipia plateau below Mount 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.