Mount Kenya
- Mount Kenya Safari Club
With magnificent views of majestic Mount Kenya, the Safari Club’s 115 luxuriously appointed guest rooms, set in over 100 acres of landscaped gardens, offer a unique blend of comfort, relaxation and adventure. Originally the retreat of movie star and Club founder, William Holden, the Club's illustrious former members have included Winston Churchill and Bing Crosby.
For those who wish to spend time relaxing at the Club, there are many recreational activities available: horse riding, golf, croquet, a putting green, a bowling green, table tennis, swimming, a beauty salon, an animal orphanage and much more. To be able to relax and appreciate the superb setting, the personal attention lavished on all our visitors, the numerous activities and superb cuisine, one night is just not enough. Mount Kenya Safari Club is the ideal base for a truly superb holiday in Kenya. With some of the country’s finest attractions on the doorstep visitors can enjoy an enormous range of excursions and activities without spending hours and even days travelling between each.
There are 115 standard and superior guest rooms spread out in the delightful grounds of the Club. Superior accommodation comprises Suites, Studio Suites and Cottages. The Suites have a twin-bedded room, with fireplace, one sitting room, a fully stocked mini-bar, private verandah overlooking the river and Mount Kenya, and a large bathroom with sunken bath. The Studio Suites each have double bed and fireplace, private verandah overlooking the river and Mount Kenya, sitting area, a large bathroom with sunken bath, and a fully stocked mini-bar. The superior guest rooms are located in the Garden Suites, William Holden Cottages, Riverside Cottages, and the three houses, Lenana, Batian and River House. - Ol Pejeta Ranch House
Ol Pejeta Ranch House lies in the heart of Ol Pejeta Ranch, 90,000 acre of private ranch land, on the western foothills of Mt. Kenya. The 24,000 acre Sweetwaters Game Reserve is located in Ol Pejeta and provides unrivalled game viewing opportunities.
The Ranch House offers exclusivity for a maximum of twelve guests, in six luxury suites. The house is furnished with original and unique paintings and artefacts, and overlooks tropical gardens, two swimming pools and a waterhole.
The main house, previously owned by Adnan Khashoggi, has a master bedroom with a 12’x12’ bed, private lounge, dressing room and oversize bathroom. The house has a lounge, dining room, television room and a large verandah. Buffalo cottage, originally built to accommodate Khashoggi’s children, consists of two en-suite rooms. - Sweetwaters Tented Camp
A sheltered oasis, clustered around a waterhole and set in the pristine calm of its own private reserve, Sweetwaters Tented Camp is in a class of its own. Abounding with wildlife, unfettered by the more rigorous strictures of the Kenyan National Parks and designed to offer a charming blend of under canvas ambiance and uncompromising luxury, it has long been the preferred retreat of wilderness and safari lovers alike. One of only four private game reserves in Kenya, Sweetwaters excels in the provision of privileged seclusion and private game viewing. Thanks to its private status it also allows such unforgettable pleasures as night game drives, guided bush walks and both horse or camel riding across its game-teaming plains.
Built in the 1970’s, the Camp’s main building was originally the residence of the ranch manager of this private reserve. Both the Sweetwaters Game Reserve and the sumptuous Ol Pejeta Ranch were once the private domain of famed multi-millionaire, Adnan Kashoggi.
The reserve comprises extensive savannah grasslands and the riverine forests that border the Ewaso Nyiro River. - Lewa Safari Camp
Situated in the Northwest of the Conservancy, the safari Camp offers all the comforts of home. Steamy hot showers, flush toilets, warm comfy beds at the end of a long day's game viewing.
All in luxury tented accommodation. Ten doubles and two triples. - Il Ngwesi Lodge
The Il Ngwesi Lodge is situated adjacent to the Ngare Ndare River on the edge of the Mukogodo Hills and boasts commanding panoramic views across Northern Kenya.
It is constructed with materials from the local area and comprises six individual `bandas’ (cottages), which all have adjoining open air showers. They are thatched, open plan and on high supports to fully ensure both fantastic views and privacy. Two of the bandas have a platform where you can roll out the double bed and spend the night under the stars.
There is also a large sitting area and a strikingly designed swimming pool, which appears to overflow into the wilderness below. Water comes from a spring and then is gravity fed to the lodge. Water heating and electricity are powered by solar systems. - Sabuk Lodge
Sabuk is remote and beautiful ... an alluring haven on the edge of the Northern Frontier District on a cliff overlooking the Ewaso Nyiro River which flows past the camp all year round. Sabuk offers stunning views of the Laikipia plains towards Mount Kenya and northwards to the Karissia Hills. Sabuk remains a family home. Our guest cottages are secluded; each a unique design, open fronted with generous double or twin beds, hand carved wooden furniture, en-suite bathrooms with flush toilets, hot showers and sumptuous deep stone baths with amazing views.
Children are very welcome at Sabuk. Early mealtimes, a child "look out" service and big day beds and cushions for siestas make this a restful haven for families on safari.
At Sabuk we work closely with the Community. The Laikipiak Maasai share their tribal and bushcraft skills, tracking animals, pointing out the medicinal and other uses of local fauna and flora, teaching a new way of looking at the wilderness surrounding you.
The Sabuk team has been operating camel assisted walking safaris for the last 20 years and continue to do so. This age old style of safaris can be tailor made to suit all guests and all levels of fitness. Walking or riding, the choice is up to you - a camel back is a great vantage point for the surrounding scenery. This is the ultimate retreat from the rat race: no cars, no tarmac roads, just the African bush ...
Sabuk is an addictive getaway for a couple, a group of friends or a family ... there is space and something special for everyone: be it as active or passive as you choose. Guests staying at the Lodge can enjoy a taste of the full camel safari with either a half or a full day bush walk with the camels, led by trained Laikipiak Maasai Guides across the hills or following the meandering river path across the Kenyan plains. Also game drives and night drives back to the Camp after sundowners. Other activities include horse riding (by arrangement), mornings, lunch or afternoons spent on the banks of the river where a natural pool has formed, bush breakfasts and evening sundowners overlooking a dam which is a favourite elephant watering hole ... - Loisaba Lodge
Constructed from stone, local timber and thatch, the lodge is perched high on the edge of the plateau looking south towards Mount Kenya. Each room has large French windows that open onto a private deck cantilevered off the escarpment. The views are legendary, and a water hole a few hundred feet below draws continuous wildlife.
All the furniture in the lodge is handmade at Loisaba. The lodge has a swimming pool, tennis court, bocce court and croquet lawn. The spa offers massage and beauty treatment and a romantic open-air bubble bath, all with a tranquil view of the unspoilt Karissia Hills. - Sarara Luxury Tented Camp
Namunyak (meaning 'a place of peace') is a vast tribal community wilderness area administered by the recently formed Namunyak Wildlife Conservation Trust, in close conjunction with Piers and Hilary Bastard and the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. The camp is situated to the north of Ol Donyo Sabache (Ol Lolokwe), just below Warges peak, in the fabled Mathews Mountains of Northern Kenya.
Sarara tented camp has five luxury sleeping tents, each with its own flush loo and open-air bush shower. Comfortable beds, plus quality bed linen, bathrobes, towels and other essentials are provided. The camp can accommodate a total of 10 people in the five double tents.
There is a beautiful lounge / dining banda which overlooks a natural swimming pool and waterhole and has unrivalled views of the Mathews Mountains beyond.
Namunyak is a truly un-spoilt wilderness conservation area with few roads. The emphasis here is mainly on walking excursions, with local Namunyak community game scouts as guides. Sarara is a dry season refuge for several hundred elephant and numbers increase dramatically during the rainy seasons. Lion and leopard are resident and there are two separate groups of the endangered African Wild Dog, with one pack numbering at least thirty individuals. Other wildlife species of particular interest include kudu, Grevy's zebra, striped hyena and gerenuk. There are black and white colobus monkeys in the forest.
It is approximately five hours’ driving time from Nanyuki to Sarara and it is recommended to go by air. Air Kenya has daily scheduled flights to Nanyuki, Lewa Downs or Samburu National Reserve. Z Boskovic Air Charters (Nairobi) or Tropic Air (Nanyuki) will be delighted to fly guests by private air charter directly to Namunyak airstrip. - Ol Malo Cottages
An ancient land inhabited by wildlife and peoples of a time long ago, undisturbed and living by the rhythm of nature. And there, as part of this untamed and beautiful landscape is Ol Malo - Place of the Greater Kudu- nestled into a rugged escarpement looking out across the time - honoured lands of Kenya's Northern Frontier District.
To stay at Ol Malo is to live by a different rhythm - measure the day by the time-worn patterns of nature. Wake up to see the mind-blowing sunrise, framing the snow-capped peaks of Mt Kenya. Celebrate the new day with a dawn ride into the wilderness. Feel night's chill burn off with the rising of the great equatorial sun. Keep tempo with the world by the roll of the camels stride. Visit the colourful Samburu nomads of the North and sink with the dying sun into the waters of the pool. At night luxuriate in the peace and comfort of Ol Malo and tune into the magical sounds of wild Africa under an ancient starscape.
Colin and Rocky Francombe, both born in Kenya of settler families, designed and built Ol Malo with a deep understanding of how it should be. They are glad to share their knowledge and love of this magical land, account their tales and adventures with it's wildlife and Samburu people and welcome you to their extra-ordinary bush home; Ol Malo, in Kenya.
To stay at Ol Malo is to abandon oneself and live by another drumbeat in a wild and beautiful land.
