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Elewana Elephant Pepper Camp
Masai Mara, Kenya · Elewana Collection · High Luxury
One of the original tented camps in Kenya's Mara North Conservancy, Elephant Pepper Camp was first established around 1984 with deliberately no permanent structures, its canvas tents pitched under a grove of fig and elephant pepper trees. Rebranded under Elewana Collection in 2005, the intimate camp of about ten en-suite tents furnished in Indian Raj campaign style completed a 2025 renovation that added a fire-cooking dining concept called Elephant and Pepper.
- 10 rooms
- Opened 2005
About Elewana Elephant Pepper Camp
- Condé Nast Traveller readers ranked it 24th among the world's best hotels in 2025.
- Mara North airstrip is about a thirty-minute drive from the fig and pepper grove.
- Eight standard tents plus two honeymoon or family suites, no concrete lodge, sit under the trees.
History
Elewana Elephant Pepper Camp is an intimate tented safari camp in the Mara North Conservancy, in the heart of Kenya's Maasai Mara ecosystem. One of the original camps in the area, it was first established in the 1980s (built around 1984) and takes its name from the grove of fig and elephant pepper trees under which its tents are pitched.
The camp was rebranded in 2005 under the Elewana Collection, which owns and manages it. Deliberately built with no permanent structures, it comprises around ten en-suite canvas tents, including honeymoon/family suites, furnished with Indian Raj campaign-style pieces. A multi-stage renovation completed in 2025 refreshed the guest tents and introduced a fire-cooking dining concept called 'Elephant and Pepper'.
Experiences
- Game Drives — Open-sided 4x4 Toyota Landcruiser drives in Mara North Conservancy, where only lodge vehicles may game drive; guests share unless exclusive use is booked.
- Migration River Crossings — Guided visits to Mara River crossings of the zebra and wildebeest migration, usually mid-day.
- Observing the migration — Viewing the wildebeest and zebra migration from the Serengeti, which the camp describes as ideal for guests, running from July to November.
- Evening Game Drives — Pre-dinner game drives at dusk with red-light spotlights, for hunting predators and aardvark.
- Bush Breakfast and Sundowners — Full breakfast al fresco in the middle of the plains, and sundowners in the bush at sunset.
- Maasai cultural visit — Maasai cultural visit for groups of 2 to 6 guests, priced at US$85 per person.
Amenities
- Pool
Awards
- Condé Nast Traveller Readers' Choice Awards (2025)
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