Porini Camp Amboseli – Selenkay Conservation Area
I stayed at the Porini Camp Amboseli and have to say from my experience with safari’s it was my favourite, it really feels like your on safari and your well looked after by the Massai people. When you arrive you are escorted to your luxury tents to settle in, your tents have proper beds with a fully functioning bathroom, your shower water is heated up by the Massai and put into huge canvas sack so that you can have a nice warm shower at the end of your safari day. Your meals are all outside and in the evenings is by the bonfire, the food is very good and pretty much like British home cooking. Before your dinner you are taken on a sundowner, this is beautiful and you get to see the most beautiful sunset with mount Kilimanjaro as your back drop. Then you return to camp for your evening meal, after dinner you are then taken on a night safari which is an experience and great fun. remember to wrap up though as it can get chilly. brrrrrrrr. So if your looking for something a bit different I would highly recommend this camp.
I flew down from Nairobi to Amboseli, an early start but well worth it as the road between Nairobi & Amboseli is currently under contruction & is pretty awful – the journey by road is now 5hrs and full of bumps & dust. I would highly recommend the flight down & back. You arrive into Amboseli at 0900 and have the full day game driving in the park. Amboseli is absolutely teaming with game, within 5 minutes we came across a large herd of elephants with babies sleeping on the ground while the adults protected them. A lovely sight!
On the second morning at the camp we went on a walk, guided by the Maasai. It is so nice to be able to walk within the conservancy, after all the large meals and bumping around, it is such a treat to be able to stretch your legs & have some exercise. We walked up a hill, although it was not too strenuous and at the top had the most fantastic view. Unfortunately Kilimanjaro wasn’t out but if it was, the view would have been absolutely magnificent.
A highlight of my two night stay, was enjoying a sundowner on the final night. After the sun had set & a few drinks & stories had gone down, we packed up & drove a couple of hundred metres to the water hole and came across 2 female lions. They were very shy and ran off into the night, but what an exciting sight. I then returned to Nairobi the following day and had a message from the Harry, the head guide at the camp to advise us that a set of lion cubs had been born in the conservancy!!