Tsavo, Shimba Hills & Chyulu Hills
- Finch Hattons
At the foot of the Chyulu Hills rests the friendly luxury tented lodge of Finch Hattons. You will experience wildlife at your doorstep, as Finch Hattons is unfenced. Animals come and go as they please - after all, you are in the wild!
Each tent is equipped with deluxe beds and all the amenities of a room in a five star hotel, including a supply of electricity, a fully stocked mini-bar, en-suite toilet, wash basin and generous slate walled shower room, complete with hot and cold running water.
The main lodge comprises of a dining hall, lounge/bar and the terrace, where breakfast is served overlooking the hippo pool against the backdrop of Mount Kilimanjaro. You will enjoy excellent cuisine with top quality service. Tables are decked with silverware, cut crystal and porcelain to service your five-course dinner in style. After dinner you are taken back to your tent by armed askaris (traditional Masai warriors) to spend the night under canvas in the wild. - Kilaguni Serena
Located on a ridge that commands magnificent sweeping views of the Chyulu Hills at the foot of Mount
Kilimanjaro, Kilaguni was the first safari lodge ever to be built in a national park and has long been a favourite of international tourists. It was opened in 1962 and has been under Serena management since December 1999.
Taking its name from a Kamba word meaning ‘young rhino’, the lodge is located in the middle of the worldrenowned Tsavo National Park: an area covering 20,720 square kilometres that boasts a huge population of elephants.
The hotel has 56 bedrooms and a fabulous terrace from which you can witness spectacular African sunsets. Its waterhole is considered to offer the finest terraced savannah game viewing in Kenya, and at night you can listen to the sounds of herds of buffalo and elephant grazing outside your bedroom.
Activities include game drives; excursions to Mzima Springs, with its crystal clear water welling up from volcanic rocks and its hippos and crocodiles; The Rhino Sanctuary; Chaimu Lava Floor; Sheitani Lava; and Roaring Rocks, a volcanic hill formation with caves and rocks. - Voyager Safari Camp
Situated in the shadow of majestic Mount Kilimanjaro on the edge of Tsavo West National Park, Voyager Safari Camp sits on the edge of a small dam on the Sante River. This exclusive, tranquil camp offers a close encounter with the resident hippos and crocodiles, as well as the big game of one of Kenya’s most spectacular and least explored national parks.
Of the camp’s 25 tents, 16 sit on the southern bank of the river and nine on the northern. The spacious tents offer the classic ambience of an African camping safari, with large secluded verandahs overlooking the wildlife-rich shores. Each tent is comfortably furnished with double or twin beds and has a modern en suite bathroom with a flush toilet and piping hot shower. - Salt Lick Lodge
Salt Lick Safari Lodge is located in the heart of the privately owned Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary at the foot of the Taita Hills, and consists of 96 rooms elevated on stilts and linked by raised walkways.
Most of the guestrooms, as well as the restaurant and the terraced bar command spectacular views of the waterhole and surrounding grasslands, where elephant, buffalo and a The lodge overlooks waterholes in Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary variety of plains game can be seen throughout much of the year. The area is illuminated by floodlights to facilitate game viewing at night, and there is an underground tunnel and chamber allowing guests to closely and safely view wildlife at ground level. - Ngutuni Lodge
Ngutuni Lodge is conveniently situated, some 15 minutes from the Tsavo East National Park main gate and about half an hour from Tsavo West National Park and the Taita Hills Game Reserve. It is the ideal base from which to visit these excellent attractions, on easy excursions, returning to the comfort and friendly welcome from familiar faces at Ngutuni Lodge.
The Ngutuni Private Game Sanctuary, once a share of man-eaters, as the lions of Tsavo, who terrorized workers on the Kenya - Uganda railway that was called. European armies camped in the area during both World Wars. Today cameras have replaced guns, visitors have replaced soldiers and lions have reverted to culling plains African game, in the eternal cycle of life. - Ol Donyo Wuas
Ol Donyo Wuas lies in the foothills of the Chyulu Range, halfway between Tsavo and Amboseli in a concession area of 300,000 acres, communal Maasai owned land, which is also part of the Amboseli eco-system.
The open plains, rolling Chyulu Hills and snow-capped peaks of Kilimanjaro invoke images of Africa as it was in the earlier part of the last century; abundant game and Maasai herdsmen living as nature determined they should in this unspoilt corner of Kenya.
Built in 1986 as Richard Bonham's private home, the lodge consists of seven individual cottages and a beautiful, centrally positioned mess/dining room. All cottages have en-suite bathrooms, electric lighting, an open fireplace and a veranda with panoramic views of the plains and Mount Kilimanjaro.
Chris and Tamsin are your hosts and a friendly crew of Kenyans are there to organise the daily activities, to ensure everything runs smoothly, and to provide high standards of cuisine and personal service.
Water is solar heated with wood burning stoves as a back up. - Pattersons Safari Camp
Patterson’s Safari Camp is set along the banks of the river in this historical “man eaters” location of the Tsavo East National Park, approximately 270 km from Nairobi and 210 from Mombasa, the camp has 20 spacious tents – (15 with twin beds and 5 with double beds) all with en suite facilities at the rear, proper flush toilets and showers with hot and cold water.
- Outspan Hotel
To 'outspan' means to unyoke one's weary oxen at the end of a day's journey. Lord Baden Powell, who in 1920 was proclaimed Chief Scout of the world, recognised the tranquility and beauty of the Outspan and chose to 'outspan' at the hotel with his wife for the last three years of his life. Baden Powell's grave faces towards the glistening snows of Mt Kenya and the walls of his cottage Paxtu are covered in memorabilia.
The 30 acre setting and two purpose-built conference rooms lend themselves to creative meetings and training sessions with numerous tempting leisure activities for when 'school's out'. There is tennis, squash, billiards, badmington, and adjacent to the hotel, a 9-hole golf course.
For the less sports-minded, there is a daily display of traditional Kikuyu dancing, another 16 acres for nature walks along the Chania River, escorted bird walks, excursions to nearby tea and coffee farms and of course, morning and afternoon game drives in the Abedares Salient where Treetops is sited and where only specially licensed 4 wheel drive vehicles are permitted to enter. We'll challenge anyone to say they're bored!
Just 160 kms on a good road from Nairobi and 2 kms from Nyeri town center, the Outspan offers guests a range of accommodations - twin rooms, garden suites, or cottages. Since the hotel's inception in 1927, the atmosphere has changed little.
The gardens are a riot of sculptured colour and the rooms, many with their own log fires, have been recently redecorated to retain the charm and comfort of an historical and well-established hotel. And many of our guarded recipes go back a year or two. Supplied with abundant dairy and fresh produce from nearby farms, our chefs lovingly create dishes.
For a pampered but entertaining country holiday or a rewarding and enjoyable conference, we are proud to welcome you to Kenya's traditional country hotel, The Outspan.
