This was our last full day in the Masai Mara. After 12 nights of staying in some incredible places in the national reserve and the various private conservancies.

I arrived in Nairobi airport at 9pm, tired and frazzled. It had been a busy, hot flight.

“This is the best camp in the Masai Mara. You’ll love it.” That wasn’t the welcome by one of the camp managers, but the enthusiastic greeting of an American guest.

“…And they’d even made us a heart-shaped fire to sit by as the sun went down!” said the excitable young woman to her fellow dinner companions.

There are 4 Governors camps in the Masai Mara. We stayed at Little Governors, the only one on the west side of the Mara River, in the Mara Triangle.