Mara Sopa Lodge; This is perfect luxurious safari accommodation located amidst the pictures landscape of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, offering rewardable views and well-maintained rooms and beautiful surrounding of the nature, located 250 kilometers away from Nairobi.
Despite the fact, the lodge is located high on the slopes of the Oloolaimutia Hills and renown as one of the first safari lodge to be built in the reserve to serve guests on their night stay at the park. It’s the reason why its gardens and trees are so lush and mature. All the building were designed in a unique traditional African round houses with conical roofs and these stretch along the line of the hills with the beautiful large public area built with a spacious swimming pool at their Centre.
More then, the lodge consists 99 spacious rooms, including 4 inter-connecting rooms, one honeymoon suite and 12 suites.
The lodge stuns with excellent amenities such as one conference room that accommodates 70 people and theatre style. Other facilities offered at the lodge include; lounge, spacious restaurant, out-door boma dining area, swimming pool, gift shop and Wi-Fi in public area.
Mara Sopa Lodge also has fifty excellent guest cottages divided into two wings to either side of the main public areas. Each of these house two perfect guest rooms with queen and king size beds designed with beautiful amenities like mosquito nets, dressing tables, electronic safes, en-suite bathrooms and overlooking verandas that offers views over the garden and the game reserve beyond.
Other accommodation facilities and amenities;
The lodge offer free parking it is client
It offers spacious concierge
Laundry service
Public Wi-Fi
Currency exchange
Free internet
Breakfast buffet
Poolside drink
Gift shop
Family rooms and safe
Mara Sopa Lodge consists six of the comfortable cottages each contain two suites with larger bedrooms and bathrooms, both indoor and outdoor seating areas.
Additionally, the lodge also has the honeymoon suite with an extremely large, luxuriously appointed bedroom with a king size bed; dressing table and indoor seating area. Mara is designed with clean bathroom contains both a shower and a sunken bath and it’s sheltered veranda offering some of the most spectacular views available over the scenic African landscapes below.
Events offered at Mara Sopa Lodge;
Masai Mara Sopa lodge has stun setting for wedding ceremonies, which can be organized in a special way for you. It can be beautifully set amongst the huge fig trees near the Mara River, where both wild animals and the landscapes beyond form the backdrops for your wedding photographer.
The lodge has meeting rooms and event venue that accommodate 18 to 90 people. These meeting rooms are located from the main building, the Baraza room that can cater for social functions and corporate entertaining.
Things to do while at start at Mara Sopa Lodge;
They include; Game drives, bird watching, natural walks, hot air balloon safaris and card and board games.
Generally, Masai Mara National Reserve is sheer wildlife conservation area covering an area of about 1,510 square kilometers in southwestern Kenya and park shares an international border with Tanzania’s fabled Serengeti National Park. More fact, this reserve is owned and managed by the Maasai people, because of their traditional love and respect for wildlife during the course of hundreds of years of their continued co-existence. It is ensured that the wildlife splendor of the Maasai Mara exist till today.
More so, the reserve is home to over 450 species of birds and 60 species of raptors. However it is one of the world’s finest game viewing destinations because it hosts an abundance of every form of wildlife possible except for those few species which can only be viewed north of the Equator .
Despite the fact, Masai Mara National Reserve is world famous Kenya safari destination that offers annual migration of literally millions of wildebeest. They annually migrate north from the Serengeti crossing over Masai Mara via Mara River looking for green pastures; This usually happens between July to October – choosing to be part of Wildebeest migration events is an event you will never forget in life time.
The lodge can be accessed by both road or air; By road takes 6 hours from Nairobi and only 1 hour flight from Wilson Airport to Keekorok airstrip. It takes 1 hour transfer from the airstrip to the lodge.
