YOU WON'T BELIEVE This Place Exist / Kenya's BEST Safari Camp

Once again we are going to the best safari camp in the country, probably our favorite place on this planet. Are you ready? Tracy are you ready? I am so ready. Tracy do you even have your license? Sure, sure. That's proper. Yes. Guys Ishara just got even better because they got Annie from another safari camp and now she works here and she's been one of our favorite safari guide of all time. So this is where it's And just like that we made it to the best camp on earth. So just in case you still don't know where we're at after we said that we are at our favorite place on this planet, well we are at Ishara and Masai Mara. This is actually our third time here and each time I don't know how they managed to do it but they keep outdoing themselves and they have done it once again. They literally went from a hundred to a thousand. Welcome to Ishara's new villa. So the way that this is set up is basically you don't have to go up to the main areas if you don't want to. You can have your entire safari trip right here. So when you come into the basically main area you have a seating area here, you have some games back there. Oh fun fact with the games, Ishara made their own playing cards. So there's a deck of Ishara playing cards there and then you come over here to the bar. I go speechless. Not only do they have like their own bar set up but they even have like garnishes and everything just ready there for you. It does come with someone as well so if you want a drink you can have them make you a drink. You don't even have to do that. And then back over here you have a fridge already set up. Why not? Some more food. You'll never go hungry here that is for sure. And this gets restocked daily actually so if you need more even throughout the day you just let them know and they'll bring you some more. Over on this side we have a dining area. So like I said it's set up so that you can even eat your meals here whatever you prefer or you can go up to the main lodge. You have their selection of teas. Some more food because why not? And we just learned that they make their crisps in-house. Come on, why not? You have a tea coffee station here, hand washing station and let's go across to the room. The way that this is set up is the main lodge and then you have two river suites on either side. So let's go see the river suite. Welcome to the river suite. So these are coffee pastes to the suites that we've actually stayed at before here. You have a drink bar, coffee station, everything you need here. The one thing I do like is in the morning this actually has a door on the other side so when you get your wake-up call they just put your coffee in there, whatever else you order and then you can get it from the inside so nobody has to come in the room in the morning. Over on this side we have a seating area. Over here a couple books, a little game, a king-size bed in here, a little vanity station. I'm gonna call it our first shower, first bathroom. Double sink over here, beautiful shower here in case you don't want to use the other one but why would you use the one inside? Bathroom here and then personal favorite, the outdoor shower. And if you thought having an outdoor shower wasn't enough and then we go around the corner we have a bathtub outside. So I love the aspect that there's like two different types of showers and everything. An outside shower for me is one of my favorites. So now that you're on the deck of the river suite, I'm gonna swing you around and we even have patio furniture out here. So we have a couple chairs where you can have your coffee or a daybed and while you're there you just get to see whatever comes along the river. So back into the common area of the villa this is where we're honestly we're gonna spend all of our time here. So if you don't want to eat inside you can eat outside here, have a nice view. Maybe you just want to have a drink or have your coffee in these couple rockers or maybe it's nighttime and you want to have your own fire here instead of going up to the main lodge for the fire or maybe it's hot like it is right now. You even have your own plunge pool here as well with a couple day loungers. So in all honesty you can go up to the main area if you want to but you don't have to and that is the beauty of this villa here. It's all yours and then you can see the background is the second river tent. So we're gonna try one of the suites because we have to eat lunch in a half hour. I already know there's gonna be way too much food. Ah so good. Now that we've settled in we're gonna go have a nice lunch. I say nice because I already know that like it's gonna be delicious and then after that we're gonna go get some special equipment before the game drive. So for lunch we have some chicken and truffle fries which are so crispy and then we really wanted to kind of taste the the squid as well so we have a side of it. Basically a second plate to share. It's so unique but it's so good. Tracy one word to describe lunch. Incredible. I would say exquisite. So now it's time to get the equipment that I was talking about a little bit earlier. So we are here at the photo studio and they have a lot of new toys. So the photo studio is definitely my favorite spot here at Ishara and since last time well a few things happened. First of all Eric, resident photographer here, got two new colleagues right there. Nice to meet you all. They also got a brand new Canon R3 which for people who are making videos like we do, this is like this is the camera. This is amazing. And they also got a bunch of new well I could say like beginner level cameras so no matter your experience in photography you can be sure to get the best safari shot of your life and you can then edit them right there on their computer as well so it's pretty cool. So for our first safari I just got the brand new Canon R3 because let's face it for sundowner which is probably going to be epic even though it's covered like the sun there's like a little patch with nothing there it's going to be great. But let me show you something that just blew my mind. They have a portable pizza oven and they're making pizzas here like in the middle of nowhere. This is great. Isharas are they're always like stepping it up. Now let's have a glass of some pizza and enjoy the sunset. This is the best pizza I've ever had in a Masai Mara. Chocolate all over your mouth. No. Yeah you did. So we had a very nice sundowner and then we drove back here thinking that we're going to go for supper but we have another massive appetizer even a dessert before going to supper again. I think the plan is just to taste everything, go for supper and then we're doing this for you guys you know we're reviewing all the food to make sure that it's good enough to send you guys here. Basically bottom line you'll never be hungry and you'll always have good food and good wine. Cheers. Cheers to that. So now they've prepared us a special dinner and I can already see some lights it looks beautiful. Okay this was just supposed to be a little montage with like romantic music and all that good stuff but I have to interrupt it because this beef is one of the best meal I ever had in my life. Like 100 percent. Mind blown. Back to it. Not that we expected anything different but fantastic first day and dinner even though we weren't very hungry because I feel like we ate all day it was so good. It was yeah this place does not disappoint it is still our favorite camp on earth. And I'm sure tomorrow is going to be even better but tomorrow starts at 5 30 and it's past 10 pm. Yeah we gotta go to bed. See you in and of course bush coffee. Just like with the pizza oven yesterday they always go above and and instead of bringing coffee from the camp well they make it right here. So we just stopped for some coffee and then we have some snacks. We have some little sandwiches and this is my excuse to eat another one to show you. The best cookies. These are Nutella cookies and watch this. Hold on. The inside has Nutella in them like it's just a pocket of goodness. They're so good. Eat your own. So back to Ishara after a very successful morning. A little snack and coffee in the middle of the bush as well so that was very good. Now we're gonna go for actual breakfast or second breakfast depending on how you want to call it. We're gonna go from there we have a lot of things planned today. So here they have a pastry chef yes in the middle of the Masai Mara and he makes some of the best croissant outside of Paris. If you close your eyes you're in Paris. So our bellies are full of breakfast. The sun is just starting to come out but we're gonna take a little bit of time to relax and I'm gonna get a massage but the cool thing is is I can get it jerked myself awake and probably just get the crap over but that's okay. Now I'm gonna get a nice outside shower. Perfectly relaxed. This is how you know it's a good massage. Perfectly relaxed but energized. So with the new private villa even though you don't have to leave there at all uh we're gonna show you around the camp anyway. So if you're flying here you're gonna land at Okiambo airstrip and then you're gonna get driven to the other side of the river. From there you cross this amazing bridge over the river and this is where the adventure awaits. So once you cross the bridge you have a reception kind of like a waiting area over here. Kind of get familiar with the place and then you come over here and you have a fireplace. You can even have sundown or there at night sometimes or when you're coming back from a game drive before supper. And now let's go into the main dining area. So here's the main lodge area. With the draining outside we can actually eat our meals inside here or it's just a nice area to grab a cup of coffee or something like that. There's actually an outside dining area as well usually where we choose to have our meals if weather permits. So then when you come to the other side there's a bar slash coffee area. Over here we have some books and games and something that is really unique is they even have a full-on tea experience here as well. Come across the bridge into another reception area. This if you've seen any of our previous videos when you drive here this is the side that you normally arrive on. So they actually have a new boutique and this is new since the last time we have been here and something that has really caught my eye is they have their own jewelry collection exclusive to Oshara and it's called Luxury Meets the Wild and some of the pieces are absolutely stunning. So you'll notice that there's a lot of bridges that we're going over. Basically there's like three islands so the bridges are connecting everything and they haven't cut down trees. They've even planted more trees from when they first arrived and I have to say this area has kind of turned into like a rainforest type area. It has grown up so much. Behind me is the observation deck and up here you can have amazing sundowners. You can even have a private dinner and they've even had proposals up there as well. You have a beautiful view overlooking the plains and the river at the same time. Now we're going to go see the other side of camp. So on this side of camp we actually have the wellness area. So we have a pool over here. We have an elevated spa behind me and they even have a gym and it is the most aesthetically pleasing gym I have ever seen. For the next one we need to drive a little bit. So this is their waterhole and now they even have resident hippos and crocodiles there. Basically it's wild in general like last year at the migration there was a bunch of wildebeests and everything like that. We got this. So you can do bush breakfasts here as well. It's a really nice setup so highly recommend trying that out if you're coming here. So welcome back to the camp and welcome to the Shamba of Goodness. This is an aeroponic tower farm where most of the veggies that you're eating during your meals are actually coming from. Something unique is you can actually pick your own salad from here and that's what we're going to do right now for lunch. Speaking of farm to table concept, you can pick your veggies and then you can have lunch right here. So we're starting our lunch with a salad which is from the Shamba. Bread delicious and they always bring it with garlic butter which is fantastic. For main we have a delicious apricot duck breast with some mashed potatoes and just like every other meal it's delicious. So I have some type of espresso mousse something. So the jelly is it sounds weird but like it's espresso and then like chocolate dark chocolate on the bottom with this cream. That is amazing. David obviously isn't going to try it because he doesn't like coffee at all but it is amazing. And because of that I ordered some homemade ice cream that they make right here. Another delicious meal and something I really like here I don't know if you've noticed but so far we did not have a meal at the same place twice yet. Back in the villa and literally every time we leave and then come back there's some new food that appeared somewhere in one of the tents. So let's see what we have now. So welcome to our taste test. There's also some chips and some energy balls there. We're just gonna we're just gonna try a bit of food as if we need more. But it's our job to review it for you. Yeah. That's some really good cake. Extra moist. There's gingerbread. In case you don't want anything sweet there's a chicken wrap. Some good chicken wrap. And finally some energy balls. Everything is good. So now that we've rated the food I think we're gonna relax a little bit and try to digest all that food. So just in case everything we showed you so far is not enough well one more thing that you can do here is actually a photo shoot which gives you amazing memories. So you can do it at your tent somewhere in the camp or in the middle of the Masai Mara in the bush whatever you want because Eric and his team are there just for that. So tonight we're going to do one in the photo shoot guys. Can't wait can't wait to see all those beauties that you're gonna make. No pressure. So we have a s'mores kit here but there's cookies here to use instead of graham wafer crackers. But I don't know if you can see this but there is marshmallow inside of the cookie so I need to try a bite of the cookie first. Wow. I'm going to do mine a little bit different. I'm going to crisp the outside of the marshmallow take the outside layer put it in between the two cookies so it's not too marshmallow-y. This is like years of s'mores making experience talking right there. This is my childhood. This is what a perfectly toasted marshmallow looks like and now it's a little hot but you gotta pull the outside layer off put that in between. I think that's the best s'mores I've ever had. Delicious indeed. So we just had our sundown we had our photo shoot. Yeah which is super cool like like I said earlier like it just creates some memories that you can physically bring back home because whatever photo you like from the photo shoot you can actually print it frame it. Yeah. Take it home. Yeah exactly. Special shout out to the ones who make the cookies. Oh my goodness. Again they have two pastry chefs here and like they're making miracles. Fantastic. Yeah. Anyways uh we're just waiting for supper to come so we're gonna sit around our own private fire which I love this. I love being at main lodges like there's nothing wrong with that but this just adds an element of relaxation. You don't have to walk to the main lodge you're just in your own space. Ishara like was always like our favorite safari camp but like this is like our overall of all time favorite safari experience like yeah it is just so romantic and just so private and like even if you come with like family members or another couple of your friends or whatever like it creates your own environment you don't need to go anything anywhere and you can do everything here. Not only that if you come with a big group that it like exceeds the number of tents like that are attached to it just everyone can come here to chill like it doesn't mean they can't come into the space so I think that's one thing that is absolutely amazing. Two couples here but all your friends staying in other tents around they can come chill here all night have dinner have breakfast enjoy the fire have a drink I mean possibilities are unlimited. That's pretty much it just waiting for okay So with safaris going out on game drives every day it is great but you can get pretty exhausted. That's for sure. So this is one of the reasons why we usually suggest doing three nights because it kind of gives you a chill day so if you don't want to go out on a game drive you can really just stay at your tent and just soak in the calmness the sereneness and just kind of be still which doesn't always happen especially if you're from a city. So that's what we're doing this morning and just kind of relaxing before we go back to chaos. Bush breakfasts are great but breakfast at your villa might be even better. Well guys Ishara did it again. Actually they outdid themselves. Yeah not that I ever doubted them at all. It all comes down to we've said this before it is our favorite camp in our opinion it is the number one camp in Kenya that we've even been to. It's not only beautiful from like the main areas to the different types of safari camps even their trucks are fantastic their sundowners but it's the experience it's the people. The staff is just incredible just so friendly always smiling just helping out. Genuinely happy to have you like just wanting to make your stay the best day ever. And you can tell that they're legit happy to work here. Yes absolutely take our like not only taking our word for it but this is our third time being here we've also brought our family here and we believe in the brand. And I think like this really shows how much we like this place because like we've done almost 60 different safari camps right now Ishara is the number one no questions asked and like Tracy said this is where we bring our family and we truly want to give them the best experience possible here in Kenya and we bring them to Ishara. So now sadly it's time to pack everything up head back to the airstrips back to Nairobi. Yeah. I don't know how I feel about that. We never want to leave this place and by the way we stayed in the starbed it is a fantastic experience if you want to see actually like what it looks like when it's set up check out our video that we made about the starbed here at Ishara it is fantastic and until next time see you guys in the next one