Tortilis Camp

R8,790 - R15,915

per person sharing

At A Glance

$533 - $965

Per Person Sharing

Destinations
Nearest Airport

Amboseli‚ Kenya (ASV - Amboseli)

Children Under 12 Welcome

Accommodation Highlights

Incredible views of Mount Kilimanjaro
Bush walks outside the park
Fresh food made with Italian flair & served with a view
Visit the Amboseli Elephant Research Centre
Spacious family tent or 2-bedroom villa with private pool
Massage treatments available
100% solar powered

Overview of Tortilis Camp

Kenya, Amboseli National Park

Sharing a border with Amboseli National Park and with its own private entrance into the park, Tortilis Camp is located in a hillside setting and shaded by the natural forest of Acacia tortilis thorn trees after which the camp is named. Designed in a manner that blends rustic style and modern amenities, this completely camp is renowned for its high standards of service and its superb views of the sunset over Mounts Kilimanjaro and Meru.

Tortilis Camp offers a wide range of activities, ranging from early morning and late afternoon game drives, to guided game walks outside the game park led by a Maasai expert. Support the local community by visiting a local village, and meet and interact with the students of Esiteti Primary School. Alternatively, you can laze around the pool with a cocktail and enjoy the sounds of the wild.

Once you have had your fill of relaxing activities like birding and sundowners, head to the Amboseli Elephant Research Centre – founded by Dr Cynthia Moss – to learn more about efforts to save these intelligent and sensitive pachyderms.

Bookings & Pricing

Competitive Rates For Unforgettable Experiences

1 Jul 2026 - 31 Oct 2026

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1 Nov 2026 - 19 Dec 2026

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20 Dec 2026 - 3 Jan 2027

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4 Jan 2027 - 31 Mar 2027

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1 Apr 2027 - 31 May 2027

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1 Jun 2027 - 30 Jun 2027

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1 Jul 2027 - 31 Oct 2027

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1 Nov 2027 - 19 Dec 2027

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20 Dec 2027 - 3 Jan 2028

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Highlights & Activities

What's on offer whilst on this itinerary?
Incredible views of Mount Kilimanjaro
Bush walks outside the park
Fresh food made with Italian flair & served with a view
Visit the Amboseli Elephant Research Centre
Spacious family tent or 2-bedroom villa with private pool
Massage treatments available
100% solar powered

Bird watching

Bush dining

Cultural visits

Game drives

Game viewing

Guided walking safaris

Guided walks

Local school visits

Spa treatments

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Rooms at Tortilis Camp

Unwind and relax, in your own private luxury
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  • Family Tent main bedroom.
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Family Tent

Tortilis Camp’s spacious tents are authentic canvas and thatch, and each leads from a bedroom with an expansive king-sized bed or generous twins, through a dressing area, and onto bathrooms with pressurized hot showers and flush toilets. Each tent is raised on a wooden deck and sheltered by a thatched roof that also shades the large veranda – ideal for an early afternoon siesta. There is a solid wall between the bedroom/dressing area of the tent and the bathroom section.

The bathrooms have 24-hour hot water and are fitted with iconic Kitengela glass amenities that are hand-blown in Nairobi.

Other Room Types:

The Family Tent and the Private House share a large swimming pool – complete with its own private lounge area and sunbeds. The house has large windows for appreciating the expansive views to Kilimanjaro and an extended roof area.

General Facilities

Tortilis Camp offers a wide range of activities, including early morning and late afternoon game drives, as well as guided nature walks in the company of a Maasai expert. Unwind with a massage treatment or indulge in an afternoon of birding.

Alternatively, you can laze around the pool with a cocktail and enjoy the sounds of the wild. The main swimming pool is surrounded by comfortable loungers and has its own changing rooms and bar.

It is totally solar powered, making it very eco-friendly (power and hot water are both available 24 hours a day).

There is Wi-Fi throughout the property.

Bar

Child friendly

Laundry service

Lounge

Restaurant

Spa

Swimming pool

Wi-Fi available

Dining

The food at Tortilis Camp is an integral part of the camp’s charm. Enjoy traditional northern Italian cuisine, based on recipes from the owner’s family cookbook, complemented by delicious salads and herbs grown in the camp’s own kitchen garden.

The day’s menu consists of breakfast and lunch buffets, and an a la carte dinner. Dishes include pizza, lasagne, spaghetti bolognaise, fresh perch, seared beef fillet and chocolate roulade. All water, including that used for ice, is filtered. Tortilis Camp issues guests with a reusable metal water bottle, thus stopping 200 000 plastic water bottles from being sent to landfill every year.

When you are out on the afternoon game drive, enjoy the ‘bitings’ (as snacks are known in Kenya) that have been freshly prepared by the chef.

Tortillis Camp works closely with the African Beekeepers’ Association and their resulting delicious honey is not only for sale in the safari shop but is also creatively incorporated into the menu.

Expert Opinion

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Anja Naude

Anja Naude

Africa Safari Expert

Tortilis is a beautiful camp located on its own private concession within the Amboseli National Park. This is a small camp offering a wide variety of activities from game drives to walking and cultural village visits to name a few. If you are looking for the best views of Kilimanjaro this is definitely a destination to include!

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Traveller Reviews

  • V
    Vanessa
    traveler

    Tortilis Camp in Amboseli was absolutely phenomenal. They greeted us with open arms upon our arrival and that really made us feel like we were at home. The food was absolutely incredible as were the people tending to us. Our safari guide's name was Jackson and he was amazingly knowledgeable and very easy to talk with and had an answer to all our questions. We loved all the surprises they had in store for us. From the bush breakfast to the sundown set up on top of a mountain on our last day and the visit to the Masai Tribe. I would go back to that camp in a heart beat.

  • RL
    Rosa Lugos
    traveler

    Tortilis Camp in Amboseli was a great first safari stop. The camp itself was comfortable, well located as it's elevated and near a watering hole. We were very well looked after by stellar staff. Park is at a manageable scale and the elephant viewing is spectacular.

  • CC
    Catherine Carroll
    traveler

    Tortillis camp was great – we really enjoyed the private family house. The two bedrooms were secured well for mosquitos and they provided a pack & play with a mosquito net for my 5-month old! The food was very good. The guide was very knowledgable, helpful and everything we could have hoped for. At this time of year the game was not very plentiful but the landscape and Kilimanjaro particularly was overwhelming. We really wanted to see Kilimanjaro and this was a great backdrop. I wasn’t too keen on going on the Masai Village tour but that was a highlight! So glad we did it. Two nights was perfect, as you suggested.

  • FR
    Frederic Read
    traveler

    Tortillis Camp – Could not fault in any way. Kilimanjaro was in full view for the 2 days,and had a wonderfull sundowner on a hill with a full 360 of the plains below.Elephants by the 100s

  • TT
    Tuhin Tuhin
    traveler

    Yes, we are back. In one word, the vacation was “fabulous”, one of the best vacations we ever had.
    Start with lodging – they are very nice, particularly Tortillis Camp. We did not have any problem staying in camps.
    Food at Tortillis camp was superb. The chef there especially took extra care to make sure my wife gets vegan meal and I get nice vegetarian meal.

    Game drives were all excellent and exciting. The drivers in both the camps are very knowledgeable and made all the best efforts to make sure we see as many animals as possible.

  • WW
    William Watkins
    traveler

    Your choices for accommodation were all exceptional and different as promised. The standout accommodation I thought was at Serena Lake Elementiata (very high quality) but the overall service, food, and guiding etc was best in my opinion at Tortilis. We appear to have been extremely lucky talking to other tourists. On our first day in the Crater we saw two separate lion after kills, a significant number of different animals including a serval cat which got the guide quite excited.

  • PS
    Patricia Stewart
    traveler

    Thank you for planning our wonderful trip. We really enjoyed being on safari and really loved Mara Bushtops and Tortolis Camp. Everything went without a hitch.

  • AS
    Anne Sturm
    traveler

    Wonderful people in the camps, the camps showed the different parts of the area and terrain. I was a little nervous going by myself but everyone was watching out for me. The managers at the camps were lovely to me and made sure I had everything I needed. Food was outstanding!!!!

  • RS
    Rod Schultz
    traveler

    I’ll start at the beginning of our safari adventure. Tortilis camp was wonderful. Manuela and Andrea are wonderful hosts and we had a superb guide, Joel Cheruyiat. The accommodations there were great and so was the food. Everything there is so convenient because it is a small camp. All the staff there were gracious and welcoming. All the Kenyans we met were so friendly.

  • PC
    Peter Cole
    traveler

    Whilst we were always going to visit the Mara, your recommendation to also add (and not drop) the initial 2 day stay at Tortillis camp in Amboselli was well worthwhile. The camp itself was excellent (good accommodation and food and friendly staff), the safari experience particularly close up with the elephants was quite magical and unique. We would thoroughly recommend Tortillis as a valuable add on to a Mara visit.

  • LB
    Leticia Bravo
    traveler

    The Tortillis Camp was beautiful, and we liked it’s food the best out of the three camps. The Family suite we were given was beautiful and had lovely terraces to take the afternoon siesta. The guide, Joel, was also the best we had. He was very knowledgeable, kept giving us interesting facts that had us and the kids marveled, he was funny, daring and sociable. We had a great time at Amboselli and even the fog allowed us to see Mr Kilimajaro.

  • JF
    Jahel Fabris
    traveler

    The first camp – Tortilis – we stayed at set our trip off the best way. The camp is in an excellent location and our tent overlooked a small lake where animals go drinking. The management, John and Claire, was very nice and attentive to our needs/requests as well as the camp staff. We really enjoyed our guide at Tortillis, Simon, a very knowledgeable and professional guy as well as Jonathan, the masai guide who accompanied us on a walking safari. The food was also quite good.

  • SB
    Scott Braunstein
    traveler

    Tortillis Camp in Amboseli is an excellent camp, the best food we had in any camp, very comfortable tents, and great game safaris.

V
Vanessa
traveler

Tortilis Camp in Amboseli was absolutely phenomenal. They greeted us with open arms upon our arrival and that really made us feel like we were at home. The food was absolutely incredible as were the people tending to us. Our safari guide's name was Jackson and he was amazingly knowledgeable and very easy to talk with and had an answer to all our questions. We loved all the surprises they had in store for us. From the bush breakfast to the sundown set up on top of a mountain on our last day and the visit to the Masai Tribe. I would go back to that camp in a heart beat.

RL
Rosa Lugos
traveler

Tortilis Camp in Amboseli was a great first safari stop. The camp itself was comfortable, well located as it's elevated and near a watering hole. We were very well looked after by stellar staff. Park is at a manageable scale and the elephant viewing is spectacular.

CC
Catherine Carroll
traveler

Tortillis camp was great – we really enjoyed the private family house. The two bedrooms were secured well for mosquitos and they provided a pack & play with a mosquito net for my 5-month old! The food was very good. The guide was very knowledgable, helpful and everything we could have hoped for. At this time of year the game was not very plentiful but the landscape and Kilimanjaro particularly was overwhelming. We really wanted to see Kilimanjaro and this was a great backdrop. I wasn’t too keen on going on the Masai Village tour but that was a highlight! So glad we did it. Two nights was perfect, as you suggested.

FR
Frederic Read
traveler

Tortillis Camp – Could not fault in any way. Kilimanjaro was in full view for the 2 days,and had a wonderfull sundowner on a hill with a full 360 of the plains below.Elephants by the 100s

TT
Tuhin Tuhin
traveler

Yes, we are back. In one word, the vacation was “fabulous”, one of the best vacations we ever had.
Start with lodging – they are very nice, particularly Tortillis Camp. We did not have any problem staying in camps.
Food at Tortillis camp was superb. The chef there especially took extra care to make sure my wife gets vegan meal and I get nice vegetarian meal.

Game drives were all excellent and exciting. The drivers in both the camps are very knowledgeable and made all the best efforts to make sure we see as many animals as possible.