Ol Kanjau, the "Camp of the Elephants", is a traditional style tented camp just three kilometers east of Amboseli National Park. The elephant population of the greater Amboseli Basin at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro now numbers 1000 animals in over 50 matriarchal families and associated bull groups. The Amboseli elephants have perhaps the oldest and most intact social structure of any elephant population in Africa. They are also the best known and well studied. Mike and Judy Rainy, their daughter Jessica and son-in-law Jeff Worden, are conservationists and ecologists who uniquely provide the ideal base in Amboseli from which one may observe and share in the lives of these most magnificent elephants.

The accommodation at Ol Kanjau is tented and exclusive to groups of 12 visitors or less. In addition to close elephant watching some of the other activities which are possible from Ol Kanjau camp include day and night game drives through the plains of Amboseli, bush walks, bird watching in the vast wetlands and swamps of Amboseli and the woodlands. The Rainy have a special and unique relationship with the Masai allowing for visits to neighbouring Masai settlements. For a real thrill, guided walks with habituated baboon troops are available. You'll also get an inside view into the on-going conservation ecology studies which help balance the needs of pastoral people and wildlife and ecosystem conservation.