Saruni Mara
Saruni Mara - Mara Conservancy accommodation
On a wooded, south-facing hillside in the far north of the Mara North Conservancy, the Italian-owned Saruni Mara is a stylish and unfenced bush lodge with six individual cottage-villas. Unlike most other properties in the Mara’s conservancies, it is built with a degree of permanence, setting it apart from the numerous tented camps found nearby.
A sister lodge to the equally stylish Saruni Samburu, Saruni Mara is quite a drive north of the other camps in the Mara North Conservancy. Some may see its remote location, far from the main national reserve, as a negative; certainly those fixated on seeing river crossings (for which you have to be inside the Maasai Mara National Reserve) would. But we saw it as a delightful retreat in the remote northern side of a conservancy whose southern part is now quite busy.
