Safaris and Wilderness Travel
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Days spent on one of Kenya’s private ranches leave you with the impression of having visited friends. Tea with homemade cookies delivered to your beautiful cottage with a gentle knock rouses you from the deep sleep you only find in the quiet of the bush. Stepping out into the cool, clear air of the early morning to gaze across the rugged landscape is a genuinely therapeutic experience. Setting off for a walk in the company of a Samburu guide who has spent his childhood tending his family’s herd amongst the river gullies and acacia trees feels like the most natural thing in the world.
Often you’ll be sharing gin and tonics in the company of folk who have enjoyed an unorthodox upbringing as offspring of pioneers to these parts. This is a wildlife experience, but with added dimensions. From swimming in rivers to a gentle hack on the horses, drives to favourite view points and lazy afternoons in the pool. The whole experience is genuinely unpolished, uncontrived, warm and relaxed.
There's a wholesome glamour to Borana. The lodge is very well pulled together, set in great country and the animal concentrations, which now include wild dogs, are excellent. There's tons to do and great people to do it with. All round, this probably makes Borana one of the best places to stay in Laikipia. Read more?
Sosian is a privately owned game ranch on the Laikipia plateau with at its core a traditional farmhouse built by Italians back in 40's. There are seven individual cottages dotted throughout the gardens, all perfectly comfortable with ensuite bathrooms but otherwise a refreshing lack of gratuitous glitz in fact rather the opposite with a bit of retro chintz fighting valiantly for survival through the recent upgrades. Read more?
Catherine's long experience of, and enthusiasm for Africa, makes her a mine of travel information. Add to the mix her vivacious character and inscrutable attention to detail and there are few people you'd rather have plan your holiday.
