The solitude of the north Our Kenyan journeys start at Loisaba, a luxury lodge set in 60,000 hectares of privately owned, pristine, African bushland. Loisaba is not just a place of beauty and variety, it is a practical project in sustainable land use with a mixture of natural bush and working cattle farm. Our guests here will see a very special side of this magical country. At Loisaba, there are no game park rules, no caged animals, no hoards of tourists and no end of possibilities for you to explore. We suggest a few nights staying in the lodge and camping at their remote and private campsite. Lake Nakuru & Lake Bogoria From our Loisaba base, you could head across the Laikipia Plateau and down into the Rift Valley at Lake Nakuru, whose shoreline is fringed by thousands of flamingos. Here, there is a secluded and private camping area, where you may well see game visiting you in the camp, with the roof tent providing the perfect viewing platform. The Lake Bogoria Reserve has boiling hot springs and another fabulous camp. There are also rhinos and flamingos here. Our other recommendations The highlands of the Aberdares are where rainforests give seclusion to thousands of elephant and buffalo as well as other unusual species of game, birds and amazing wild flowers. Not far away is the game rich Lewa Conservancy with 64 rhino and the community project of Il Ngwezi, where you can camp on the local Samburu tribe’s land. The little-visited Meru National Park has a wonderful lodge at Elsa’s Kopje and the private campsites along the Tana River offer peace and tranquillity in the heart of this serene and undisturbed park. All have outstanding game viewing. S A F A R I D R I V E 0 1 4 8 8 7 1 1 4 0 55

Safari Drive in Kenya With Safari Drive, you can see a wild and unspoiled side of this fabulous country so rarely experienced by foreign visitors, who choose the crowded parks of the south over the splendour and remoteness of Safari Drive terrain. Kenya is one of our latest Safari Drive destinations and one that we are very excited about. The parts of Kenya we travel to are far from the madding crowd of zebra stripe mini-buses and the frantic clicking of cameras. We are in a position to transport you to huge tracts of privately owned land, where the game wanders freely without the restriction of fences. We take you into the heart of some of the world’s top conservation areas, onto community owned land and into the less visited National Parks and Reserves, staying in fabulous lodges and magnificent private camps. For self drive safaris we recommend the areas to the north. The honey pot parks of the Mara, Amboseli and Tsavo are not so suitable for self drive, as distances are huge and these areas are very busy. K E N Y A K E N Y A