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Valery Joanne Super, owner of Emboo Camps in Kenya, spoke about how guests at their next-gen safari camps are seeking connection – with themselves...

Stories From Within

Portrait photographers have a unique ability to document various cultures, raw emotions, and the human experience.

Barbrah Naserian Kimongo’o, Emboo

Aged just 23, Barbrah Naserian Kimongo’o has spent four years as a safari guide at Emboo, the mould-breaking Kenyan Maasai Mara camp.

The sustainability obsessives

For a model of how to run a safari camp sustainably, it’s hard to think of a better example than Emboo, a solar-powered lodge in the heart of the Kenyan Maasai Mara.

Beyond the Big Five

Emboo New Generation Safari Camp has fully embraced this, promoting female guides to lead guide positions.

Towards a Carbon Free Future and Beyond

The Belgian Embassy in Nairobi has made history being the first Belgian Embassy in the world and the only embassy in Nairobi to have a carbon-neutral operation. With the help of Emboo

How Regenerative Tourism Is Transforming The Way We Explore The World

Emboo - A luxury, carbon neutral safari at the center of Maasai Mara, with leaving no trace at the heart of its ethos.

Sustainable business in Africa (V/VI): Purpose in the wild and the case of Emboo River

There is a certified B Corporation which is breaking the status quo and trying to create a sustainable model, Emboo River Camp.

Dawn of The Silent Safari​

Emboo River was the first safari camp in the Mara with an all-electric fleet: 1990s Land Rovers, upcycled in Nairobi.

Emboo River Camp’s Journey to Eco-Warrior Victory

Organized by Tourism Kenya, this accolade firmly positions Emboo River Camp as a leader in the hospitality sector’s quest for sustainable business practices.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

You don't have to be a groupie to get close to the stars of the Great Migration

How Green is Your Safari

First lodge in Kenya whose entire fleet of safari vehicles is powered by solar energy

Five ways to experience Kenyan culture

Proving that a Kenyan safari can be thoroughly progressive, Emboo River Camp is challenging gender inequality in the industry.

A new dawn for Kenyan safaris: how Maasai communities are empowering women

For the Maasai, guiding has turned into a career that can offer proper remuneration, and leading the charge towards a new kind of safari are carbon-neutral camps and female guides.

Are Travelers Ruining Travel?

Curbing “frenzies around animals” is also important with travelers on safari. Emboo River Camp, the first safari lodge in Kenya to have its entire fleet of safari vehicles powered by solar energy

Emboo River: Eco-Friendly Camp With Electric Safari Vehicles

Arguably one of the best tourist destinations, Maasai Mara is home to some of the best safari camps in the continent.

Inside Emboo River Lodge: Five - Star Luxury With Full Electric Safari Vehicles

Emboo River Lodge has gained prominence, especially with the conclusion of the Inaugural Africa Climate Summit, where climate change and green initiatives have taken center stage.

Safari: De ville dyrene i Afrika foretrekker elbil

I tillegg til det rent klimamessige har de nye jeepene også en annen fordel, nemlig at de lager mye mindre støy.

Regeneration is something you don’t finish, it’s continual evolution

This consortium of independent boutiques are rooted in community to enable people, nature, and culture to thrive.

Electric Safari Vehicles (ESVs) are revolutionising the African safari experience.

Electric safari vehicles are almost completely silent. You can enjoy driving through the bush, minimising the disturbance to wildlife.

Kenya’s first carbon-neutral safari for eco-conscious adventurers

Emboo is entirely solar-powered, while the kitchen cooks with gas made from biodigested food waste.

The rise of vegan safaris

Emboo is the first company in east Africa to have a full fleet of electric safari vehicles that are charged with solar power.

Going on solar-powered safaris

The switch to electric is not just good for the environment. It has changed the experience of wildlife viewing

What the UN’s Sustainability Goals Mean for Travel

Beyond running off solar power and using electric safari vehicles, the team has taken measures to reduce their footprint in every way

13 of the best long-haul destinations

Independently run, this is a beautiful place that screams progress: half of its guides are female, all-electric cars are used, vegetarian food is prioritised

Regenerative travel

That could be via visiting Emboo River Camp, an eco Kenyan safari lodge that stresses gender equality

Spectacularly Sustainable Safari

The location is so ideal that the lounge area is flanked by a river on one side, and endless plains on the other.

Regenerative Travel welcomes four new members to its Regenerative Hotels

Located in the majestic Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, Emboo River offers a slice of heaven amidst the wilderness.

East African camps lauded for eco-friendly ethos

The camp is entirely solar-powered and converts food waste into biogas used for cooking and fertiliser.

Go beyond the Big Five

Last year, Emboo River switched its safari vehicles to an entirely solar-powered electric fleet.

Emboo River Camp – Maasai Mara

L’Emboo River Camp è il primo lodge della regione ad avere introdotto una flotta di veicoli elettrici a bordo dei quali si ha l’impressione di fluttuare sulla prateria del Maasai Mara

Lautlos auf Safari

Die breiten Reifen hieven das Geländeauto über Felsen. Durch einen Bach rollt der SUV auf eine Herde Zebras zu.

A trip to Kenya and the first carbon-neutral camp in the Maasai Mara

Things began in 2019 and, despite being waylaid by Covid, have continued since

The best places to visit in November

Kenyan Hotels Honoured Globally For Using Solar Powered Vehicles

Emboo River Camp, which is located at the Masai Mara, is the first camp nationally to convert all its vehicles into electric-models charged using solar power.

Clean & Green Trips

Proudly carbon-negative, this is the first Maasai Mara camp with an all-electric fleet of safari vehicles

Hotels Honoured Globally For Using Solar Powered Vehicles

a unique safari experience which is luxurious, relaxing, educational as well as fully eco friendly, sustainable and community focused.

Emboo River Camp: Eco luxury in the Maasai Mara

Silently we glide through the savannah, the only sound that follows us is the gentle breeze of the wind and the soft rattling of the tyres on the gravel road.

Kenya Tourism Weighs Cost of Introducing Electric Vehicles to Wildlife Parks

Kenya recently announced that its national parks and game reserves will only allow non-fossil fuels to access it national parks

Meet the queens of the Maasai Mara

Emily Silantoi, 22, and Naserian Kimongo’o, 21, are a one-of-a-kind pair: they are tour guides and women

The Safaris in the Maasai Mara Powered By Solar Energy

Emboo River’s principles of sustainability relate to a rapidly evolving tourism industry in Kenya whereby the preservation of local cultures and environments take precedence.

Electric Safari: Wird das Elektroauto für das Safari Business zum Game Changer?

Das Emboo River Camp ist als die erste vollständig energieautarke Öko-Lodge in der Maasai Mara in Bezug auf Nachhaltigkeit ohnehin schon exzellent aufgestellt.

Carbon-neutral Safaris & Eco-tourism in the Maasai Mara

In this episode, I speak with about sustainability and ecotourism in the Maasai Mara, Kenya.

Nomad 2021 Readers' Choice Awards

Awarded Most Environmentally Sustainable Property & Most Instagrammable Property

The Revolution Is Here: Electric Cars

Visitors to Emboo River in Kenya’s Masai Mara stop by a hyena den in a converted electric safari vehicle

A Greener Maasai Mara

Emboo River is going all-in on sustainability. They’re taking active steps towards a better tomorrow in Kenya, and hope others will do the same.

Solar-powered jeeps enhance sights — and smells — on safari

The experience is totally different than a normal safari

Solar-powered 4x4's are Totally Transforming Safaris

We've been using these to tow stuck diesel vehicles out of the water

Eco-friendly vehicles offer quieter, cleaner safaris in Kenyan reserve

An electric [engine] that eliminates the rumbling noise and, just as importantly, reduces the emission of diesel fumes

Eco-friendly safari vehicles give tourists a new ride experience

Vehicles are running on sunshine

Back to the Wild

The Mara's first Electric Safari vehicles

Electric Vehicles Are Changing Safaris in Kenya

Emboo is a leader, but it's no longer alone. Other camps in the Maasai Mara are following suit and slowly converting their old cars.

African Travel Emboo River ranked the most transparent tourism destination

Most Transparent Tourism Destination

Emboo leads the way to sustainable safaris

Emboo has the first fully electric land cruisers in the Mara. Not only do these unique vehicles allow an almost silent experience but with no emissions

Inside Emboo Camp: Kenya's Luxury Eco-Lodge Glamping Experience

Within Kenya's national reserve is Emboo River, the first fully eco-friendly safari lodge in the Maasai Mara. Find out more about it here.

Eco zijn, is letten op de details

The success of Emboo River is not going unnoticed

Nomad Africa - Hot List

Rethinking every aspect of the safari experience.

A Mara lodge has gone green

Emboo River lodge runs on off-grid solar power to even charge electric safari Land Cruisers.

Emboo River: Luxurious Eco Lodge in the Maasai Mara

A luxurious eco lodge.

Emboo Camp: a complete eco-friendly stay in the Masai Mara

In the middle of the Masai Mara wilderness; surrounded by hippos, lions and hyenas