Ngerende Island Lodge

Ngerende island Lodge is a must place to visit for everybody. The rooms are exceptionally clean and the decor is out of this world. The service is excellent and the staff are very polite, concerned with their guests and giving guests a very personalized service. The poo overlooks the river full of hippos and one feels like they are swimming with the hippos. The different dinning places are well thought and very well set up.

Ngerende Island Lodge is located in the Ol Choro-Oirogua Conservancy, which borders the Maasai Mara National Reserve. The lodge is situated in a bend of the Mara river, the lodge on almost all sides. The Conservancy Olchoro includes more than 5,000 acres and consists mainly of open savanna, except along the banks of the Mara River, which are forested and an ideal habitat for wildlife. There are over 140 species of birds spotted at the lodge. To lodge are three pools, where every day crocodiles,hippos and elephants show.

Being in the Masai Mara, game driving is at the core of the offer. Ngerenede offers morning, afternoon and night drives; guided bush walks; sundowners and bush breakfasts; as well as relaxation from massages and aromatherapy; There's also a gymnasium and swimming pool. The resort is ideally suited for the hosting of weddings. The honeymoon suite makes a perfect getaway retreat.

A feature of the Conservation Ranch is an exclusive project to rear the White Rhino so that they can take their place back in the Mara society to which they belong in greater numbers. Over 180 varieties of birds have been spotted within the lodge itself and there are 3 Hippo Pools strategically located around the lodge.

The lodge boasts of seven luxury en-suite tents complete with traditional fire place, lounge area, bedroom and bathroom with a bath tub with stunning views of the surroundings. Each suite has an individual character with a wide canvas openings onto a large verandah, overlooking the Mara River. All suites have a personal room attendant.

Other facilities include:
Swimming pool
Restaurant
Lounge
Bar
Reception
Craft shop
Spa

Activities:

Game drives using specially designed 4×4 vehicles.
Visit the Rhino Sanctuary
Full day game drives to the park or Trans Mara (on request and additional park fee)
Night Game Drive (optional extra)
Guided bush walks
Bird watching
Planting trees in the conservatory
Visit the local school / pharmacy
Bush Breakfast / lunch / dinner, weather permitting
Sundowners

The Maasai Mara National Park

The Maasai Mara National Park is about 1,600 square kilometers in size. Rumor has it that it is the richest of Kenya’s game parks in terms of the flora and fauna found in the park. There is the grass land, dense bush, thickets forests and not to forget the ever permanent Mara river. As is common with many game reserves in the country, animals have no respect for boundaries with many cris – crossing the Mara and Serengeti at pleasure. Many tourists both local and foreign confess that they that it is while in the Mara that they feel that they are really in the country.
It is a fine country for the big five and the lions as well. Amongst the animals in the park that live with the big five is the ‘Topi’ whose population is around 6,000 animals, a wide variety of birds who form a symbiotic relationship with the big animals. The birds eat the parasitic insects on the backs of buffaloes and elephants that in turn provide shelter to them against wild creatures who consider the birds a delicacy. Also found are gazelles, zebras, giraffes and snakes that complete on gigantic food chain in the Mara – Serengeti ecosystem. The Mara River that runs across the park is a permanent river that is relied upon heavily by the animals in the dry season when the other streams have dried up. Today the park is a great tourist destination especially since the year 2008 when a prominent person in the world suggested that the wildebeest migration should be considered the eighth wonder of the modern world.
The Mara has more than 200 lodges and restaurants with more springing up conveniently during the migration and hundreds of tour operators in the region. The sight is comparable to Biashara street in Nairobi where after every baby shop there is a baby shop but this time round, it is after every lodge in the Mara there is another lodge.
Other than wildlife there are other sights such as the numerous trees species for the biologists and agriculturists. It is a sight to be hold and one should definitely make it a point to visit the park at least once in their life time.