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LOISABA - LAIKIPIA NORTHERN FRONTIER DISTRICT - KENYA:
Revive your Mind, rejuvenate your Body and revitalise your Soul!
Like the wildlife we nurture, you can do whatever you want, whenever you want with total privacy and exclusivity.
Loisaba bestrides the border of Laikipia and Kenya’s rugged Northern Frontier District. Only a few miles from the equator, this private game ranch on 60,000 acres is in a wilderness of remote beauty where the farm management and local Laikipiak Maasai & Samburu community work together to preserve the environment and abundant surrounding wildlife.
The view from Loisaba extends hundreds of miles – to Mount Kenya, the Loldaiga Hills and the Mathews Range. Through Loisaba roam Elephant, Lion and Leopard alongside the endemic northern species that thrive there – Gerenuk, Grevy’s Zebra and Reticulated Giraffe.
It is a setting little changed since the Great Rift Valley split Africa in two, creating the dramatic escarpment on which the lodge is built. Luxurious, yet in harmony with its surroundings; full of adventure, yet an oasis of calm.
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LOISABA ACCOMMODATION:
Loisaba sits on 61,000 acres of its own private game ranch. Loisaba Lodge is set on the escarpment with 7 rooms. Each room has its own private deck overlooking the views of Laikipia. The lodge has a swimming pool, tennis court, spa and massage room.
Kiboko Star Beds are 20 minutes drive from the lodge and overlook a waterhole/dam. Koija Star Beds are 30 minutes drive from the lodge and overlook the Ewaso Nyiro River. Each Star Bed is designed on a raised, handcrafted, wooden platform that is partially covered with a thatched roof. Homemade ‘Mukokoteni’ can either be wheeled onto the open deck for a night under the stars, or left under the shelter of the roof.
Loisaba Cottage is approximately 9kms from the main lodge. It is set back from the escarpment in beautifully landscaped gardens with a private swimming pool. The Cottage has one double en-suite room with shower and one double/twin room with access to large bathroom via an external staircase.
Loisaba House is a truly exclusive, self-contained private house with cliff-top infinity pool, built on the edge of the escarpment entirely from local stone and thatch. The location and architecture of the house are breathtaking, as are the furnishings, most of which have been designed and made at Loisaba. 2 bedrooms ensuite.1 double,1 twin.
Loisaba Lodge and Starbeds are closed April, May and November
Loisaba Cottage open all year
Loisaba House Closed 16 Jan – 01 June & 16 Sept – 15 Dec
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LOISABA ACTIVITIES:
- Game Drives In 4-Wheel Drive Vehicles and Night Game Drives
- Guided Bush Walks, Horse Riding, Camel riding and Mountain Biking
- Cultural Visits |
- Bush Meals and Sundowners
- River Rafting & River Fishing (Seasonal)
- Tennis, Croquet, Boules and Swimming Pool
- Helicopter Excursions & Quad Biking
- Spa And Massage |
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Loisaba is made for adventure: guests enjoy complete freedom to choose how they spend their time … the only barrier is your own imagination. Trek through the bush with camels, mountain bike down the escarpment, raft the Ewaso Nyiro, horseback ride or drive through the wild canyons of the two great rivers that span this vast area.
The ranch also owns a micro-light and aeroplane so there are no limits to what you choose to do: heli-camp, then surf the remote sand dunes of the Northern Frontier District, rock-climb the soaring pinnacles thrusting up from the valley floor or just play a little tennis and lie by the pool.
A place of deep serenity, Loisaba attracts big game just as it attracts guests: both know they will be safe and well looked after, free to roam unconfined and undisturbed.
The Star Beds – four-poster- on raised platforms provide blissful sleep under the vast African sky with only the stars and sky for a ceiling. Even the spa – where pampering is unrivalled – is sensitively constructed and set apart from the other buildings, so that the eternal drama of the bush unfolds before your eyes.
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LAIKIPIA PLATEAU - KENYA:
The eastern escarpment of the Rift Valley known as the Laikipia Plateau, is divided into a patchwork of enormous ranches. Over the years with cooperation from their owners and indigenous tribespeople, these farms were transformed to create a conservation and wildlife haven that spans two million acres (800,000 hectares) of wild savannah and now contain some of the most exclusive lodges in the remotest parts of Kenya. It has been made famous by Kuki Gallman who wrote 'I Dreamed of Africa' about her life in this secluded part of Africa.
Fed by the Ewaso Nyiro and Ewaso Narok rivers, Laikipia offers diverse scenery from the edge of the Great Rift Valley, to the peaks of Mount Kenya, with dusty plains and verdant grasslands, interspersed with rocky hills, rivers, and waterholes. The so-called “Ewaso ecosystem” is larger than all of Kenya’s protected areas except Tsavo and has more wildlife than all other parks and reserves except the Maasai Mara. It is home to the second largest population of elephant in Kenya (5,400) and hosts the highest populations of endangered species such as rhino (over half Kenya’s total population), Grevy’s zebra, and reticulated giraffe in the country, as well as the only viable population of Jackson’s hartebeest and an expanding population of wild dog. Leopard, lion, cheetah and other predators hunt the plentiful plains game: impala, gazelle, reticulated giraffe, Grevy’s zebra, Somali ostrich, Beisa oryx (endemic to the north of Kenya) and gerenuk.
The long hot and humid rainy period starts around April and lasts until June, then the short rains come during the warm months of November and December. January through to March are hot and dry, while July to October are warm and dry. The warm dry season is the best for game viewing and for personal comfort.
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