| Camps | Description | Price Range ($/person/night) | | Borana | Kenya Highlands and the beautiful Borana Ranch is set on 35,000 rolling acres. The lodge has a "country house" atmosphere and crowns a hill over a dam where game gather at dawn. Your luxury cottage has its own fireplace which is lit for you each evening as the air cools down. Meals are served in the stair-top dining room by an enormous fireplace. Game viewing on the ranch and beyond is excellent! Here you will find all of the game found in the Samburu ecosystem. These northern "specialties" include gerenuk, besia oryx, grevey zebra, reticulated giraffe, gunther's dik dik and Somali ostrich. Near the ranch is the "Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary with a population of almost forty black and white rhino. Day and night game viewing is by 4WD vehicles. You will have the opportunity, along with game-drives, to enjoy horseback riding amongst the wildlife, take a guided walking safari and swim in the beautiful pool. | | | Lerai | The snowcapped peaks of Mount Kenya dominate the views to the south, where the southern boundary rises to an altitude of some 6,500 feet above sea-level. The lodge at Lerai Camp overlooks a floodlit waterhole where black and white rhino, elephant, and numerous, other wildlife come to drink. The permanent tented accommodations are discrete and comfortable, placed on raised platforms and stone walls of local lava rock. Each tent is fully serviced with electric lights, en-suite bathrooms with flush toilets, and hot and cold running showers. The snowcapped peaks of Mount Kenya dominate the views to the south, where the southern boundary rises to an altitude of some 6,500 feet above sea-level. | | | Mugie | Tucked away on a private ranch within the vast 5600 sq. mile Laikipia Plains is Mugie Camp with 46,000 acres of Africa all to itself. . Mugie Camp is nestled up against an olive forest, but the plains spread out before it in a seemingly endless undulation of valleys and acacia trees. Individual tents serve as your private retreat, sharing with the rest of the camp an unmatched sense of luxury and comfort. Here you will discover wildlife on the back of a horse or camel. Around the camp are herds of zebra, eland, elephant, hartebeest, reticulated giraffe, Grevy zebra, Grant's gazelle--and, of course, the predators, including leopard, lion, cheetah and the rare caracal. Night game drives are exciting, with excellent chances of seeing aardvark and ardwolf. Clients can gamedrive, walk and ride camels through herds of animals. | | | Mukutan | The Retreat overlooks the spectacular Mukutan Gorge on the edge of the Great Rift Valley. It is situated on the extreme west of the region of Laikipia, the gem of the East African Highlands, on the ranch of Ol Ari Nyiro. Activities include: daily game drives, game viewing on horseback or camel along the many local trails. Accommodation consists of three separate cottages, with a spacious central building. This all provides a private, luxurious, and romantic setting for up to six people. Built in an elegant, traditional style using local stone, papyrus and native woods, each cottage is original and different in decoration and layout. All rooms have a double fireplace, private verandahs, double beds, and spacious private bathrooms. | | | Ol Malo | This extraordinary 5,000 acre ranch, located deep in Samburu country, is perched on the edge of a steep escarpment with sensational views of the 16,000 feet Mt. Kenya. Words cannot express the beauty of the "dream house", built by your hosts, Rocky and Colin Francombe. The living and dining rooms, built in separate stone buildings made from local materials, are elegantly furnished and each have a fireplace for the cold evenings. Four spacious cottages are exquisitely decorated and include spectacular bathrooms. The incredibly positioned swimming pool, built on the edge of the escarpment, offers wonderful views of the sprawling ranch. Enjoy day and night rides, game walks, sundowners and visits to the local Samburu villages. | |
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