Nigel Archer Safaris — Est. 1999 · East Africa

Our Camp in the Mara

Seringet Mara Camp.

In the heart of the famous Maasai Mara National Reserve, Seringet is our permanent tented camp — nine guest tents, a single long mess table, and an unbroken horizon of Mara grass. It is the camp we built for the guests who want the Mara on their own terms.

Set inside the Reserve itself, Seringet sits on ground the great migration crosses every July through October — you are not driving in, you are already there. Wildlife moves past the tents: leopard, elephant, the occasional visiting lion. From first light until the last of the dust settles, the Mara is outside your tent, not an hour's drive away.

Fully refurbished in 2025. Every tent was stripped back and rebuilt over the long rains: new canvas, new bathrooms, new beds, new furniture, a fresh set of Persian rugs for the mess. We extended the mess verandah and reworked the kitchen from the ground up. The bones of the camp — the long table, the fire, the view — are exactly where they were. Everything you touch is new.

Maasai Mara · Kenya 9 guest tents Inside the National Reserve Open year-round Great Migration: Jul–Oct Refurbished 2025
Guest tent interior with a writing desk, brass lamps and a canvas bedroom beyond

The suites

Seven suites, canvas and brass, built to live in.

Each suite is a canvas-walled bedroom with a full en-suite bathroom, a private verandah, and a sitting area. Double or twin; every suite can add a single for a child. Beds are layered for cold Mara mornings, showers are hot, and a coffee tray arrives outside your tent at whatever hour you've asked for it the night before.

  • En-suite bathroom
  • Hot showers
  • Flushing toilet
  • Solar lighting & USB charging
  • Daily laundry
  • Writing desk
  • Hot water bottles
  • Private verandah
The children's side of a Seringet family suite — twin beds, kilim rug, view onto the plain

For families

Two family tents, side by side.

Two of our nine tents are configured as family tents — a parents' suite and a children's suite connected by a shared verandah, so the children can come and go and the parents can have a quiet bedroom of their own. Each side has its own en-suite bathroom; the layout means a family of four travels together but sleeps comfortably.

Both family tents have the same amenities as the standard suites — hot showers, flushing toilets, solar charging, a writing desk, daily laundry — sized and laid out for travelling with children.

  • Connected parent + children layout
  • Two en-suite bathrooms
  • Shared private verandah
  • Family-sized beds and a single each
One long dining table at Seringet Mara Camp, laid with flowers and candles for dinner

The mess

One long table. One very good cook.

Dinner is a single, unhurried service at a long table, open on three sides to the bush. Mutinda, our head chef, is the calm presence behind the kitchen — generous with seconds and quietly proud of the way a bush kitchen can turn out food that would stand up in any city. The menu rotates through classic East African safari cooking and Mediterranean-inflected dishes, with ingredients sourced from the farms of Laikipia and the Rift.

Wine is included and curated by a friend who runs a Nairobi wine list; special occasions are remembered because the team has written them down weeks in advance.

The days

What a day at Seringet looks like.

There is no fixed programme. But most days settle into something like this.

First light

Coffee outside your tent at the hour you asked for. A pre-dawn drive onto the plain, often with the Mara to ourselves.

Mid-morning

Bush breakfast wherever the morning has taken us — often with elephant or a distant lion for company.

Midday

Back at camp. A long lunch, a book in the shade, and — opening this season — a proper swimming pool.

Late afternoon

A game drive, or a bird walk from camp with an armed Maasai guide. Sundowners with a view.

From around camp

A few minutes at Seringet.

Coffee is served.
First light at camp.

From camp

Gallery.

Guest tent interior at Seringet — bed, safari hat, view onto the Mara through the open door A Seringet guest tent under acacia trees, chairs set out in front The mess verandah at Seringet, sofas and the Mara beyond Inside the mess lounge — Persian rugs, candles, deep sofas The long mess table set for dinner at dusk, under hanging lanterns Dining set on the long mess table — candles, flowers, glassware at night Family suite — twin beds in the children's tent Family suite — the parents' tent with king bed, kilim rugs and a writing desk Family suite lounge at dusk, sofas drawn around the lamps The mess verandah in the afternoon, deep sofas and the bush all around A matriarch and calf pass the safari vehicle close enough to touch A long lunch being laid under the trees at Seringet
Two male lions facing off in the long grass near camp

Neighbours

The lions use our camp like their own back garden.

The Seringet concession is home to a resident pride of ten lions. They walk the edge of camp at night, and on many mornings you'll find their tracks straight past the mess. Leopards are frequent, cheetahs regular, and elephant pass through the camp's edge on their way to water. Nothing is staged, nothing is fenced. This is a working piece of the Mara ecosystem.

Where we are

In the heart of the Maasai Mara National Reserve.

Roughly a five-hour drive from Nairobi, or a 45-minute light-aircraft hop to our airstrip.

Ready to stay with us?

We recommend 4 to 6 nights at Seringet.

Combined with our Mobile Camp, Samburu, or a private conservancy in Laikipia, it makes a two-week safari you won't forget.

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