A Mara lodge has gone green

Emboo River lodge runs on off-grid solar power to even charge electric safari Land Cruisers. PHOTO | COURTESY | EMBOO RIVER

Luxury camps in Kenya’s Maasai Mara—globally famed for its spectacular wildebeest river crossing, exquisite campsites and game drives—are ditching diesel generators for solar power and recycling water as they become eco-friendly.

Emboo River is one such camp. Nestled deep in the Mara along a riverbed, the luxury lodge fully runs on off-grid solar power. Its solar plant does it all from lighting the spacious tented rooms, heating water, charging the electric safari Land Cruisers to pumping borehole water.