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Location: Surrounded by a series of dramatic ridges, steep gorges, open savannah, valleys and plains, Makena’s Hills is situated on the extreme west of Laikipia on the 100,000 acre Laikipia Nature Conservancy, on the very edge of the Great Rift
Valley, Humankind Cradle with stunning views of Lake Baringo.
This private paradise, home to Kuki Gallmann - conservationist and international bestselling author - has a great variety of amazing wildlife and over 470 identified species of birds.
Description: Makena’s Hills is a stunning partially tented resort of innovative design,which featured in Architectural Digest (Nov 2001).
Accommodation/Facilities:
Six enormous Arabic desert style tents to accommodate 12/14 people, are fitted with either two queen size beds or a four poster double bed.
Attached is a spacious dressing room /bathroom and private verandah and private massage bed and yoga mats. Facilities include a central reception area with two giant fireplaces, front terrace with a camp fire, dining room, bar, shop and swimming pool.
Special décor with antiques and collectors items and the feeling of a private residence throughout.
A sundowner/yoga terrace and one breakfast platform nest amongst tree tops.It overlooks the Great Rift Valley.
Ol ari Nyiro (“The Place of Springs”),Laikipia Nature Conservancy is a over 100.000 acres private wildlife sanctuary and nature Conservancy situated on the extreme Western edge of the Laikipia Plateau along Kenya scenic Great Rift valley.
It is the largest Conservancy in Kenya and the only one without any livestock. Spreading through hills and savannah, comprising the only remaining indigenous relic forest in the area, and cut in half by the stunning Mukutan Gorge (“The Meeting”) plunging from over 7000 ‘ to 3000 ‘, Ol ari Nyiro supports an extraordinary variety of recorded flora—some of it endemic and priorly un recorded-, over 470 species of birds, a large wildlife population, particularly of elephants, lions, black rhino, leopard (including black, melanistic leopard), antelopes, baboons, and the largest known population of Cape Buffalo in private land in Africa with over 4000 recorded heads.
Water falls , natural springs including thermal hot springs and the Mukutan river are part of Ol ari Nyiro ecosystem, in addition to 62 man-made lakes, most with fish, a network of over 1000 km of roads and three private airstrips.
Its rich and thriving biodiversity is in contrast with the eroded and overgrazed surrounding areas where no conservation principles were applied over the years.
