Whether your idea is unwinding on the veranda, listening to the birds, reminiscing about a day spent on safari, Ol Bobongi House is your base camp to discovery. Let us show you our Kenya, the real Kenya.
Game Drives
The Mount Kenya and Laikipia region boast some of the best game viewing in Kenya. With the draw of a smaller footprint than Masai Mara, read no crowds, forward thinking conservation practices, our conservancies deliver more than just the Big 5. Get up close to conservation in action, explore traditional culture, hone your photographic skills and explore the region with Ol Bobongi House as your luxury base camp.
Solio Conservancy
A white and black rhino reserve
Explore the privately owned Solio Game Reserve and its 19,000 acres of acacia forest, East Africa’s highest density of white and black rhinos. It is a photographer’s paradise - big game, big cats, big skies and incredible views of Mount Kenya. Explore this pioneer in conservation for a day or set up a few days of game viewing.
Photographic Tours
Capture Solio's best moments with the people who know it best
We love working with photography groupsand our expert guides know Solio better than anyone. Our specially modified Land Cruisers let you position perfectly for the best shots. Get in touch and let us arrange for you a photography tour of a lifetime, complete with bush breakfast or lunch!
Solio Rhino Orphanage
Kenya’s Best Hands-On Conservation Experience
Explore Kenya’s finest interactive conservation initiative where every nap, every step, every feeding and every rhino matters. Solio has a dedicated team of professionals where abandoned and orphaned rhinos find their new beginning and start their journey to re-wilding right where they were born. We can arrange special moments where you can interact with the baby rhinos, understand their rehabilitation and even feed the babies for a fee that directly supports conservation. A truly awe-inspiring unforgettable experience.
Ol Pejeta Conservancy
See The Big Five
Explore this large private ranch with its all-weather roads, do your own self-drive or hire the Ol Bobongi House Land Cruiser with our professional guides to explore the Big Five, the Hippo Pool, the Chimp House and see the last two remaining Northern White rhinos in the world. Leave Ol Bobongi House early to search for big cats, elephants and rhino. Feed Baraka and visit the chimpanzees.
Lewa Conservancy
Kenya’s Conservation Pioneer
Visit and explore conservation initiatives aimed at educating local communities to preserve wildlife, in order to benefit from tourism. The HQ of Tusk, this conservancy is home to black and white rhinos.
Samburu National Reserve
A Gem For Big Cats
We love Samburu. At Ol Bobongi House we can arrange day trips or we can add on as a circuit two to three days stays with our partners. Explore this iconic park set along the banks of Ewaso Nyiro River with its incredible breeding herds of elephant, its indigenous species like the gerenouk and the Greevy zebra. This area is home to prides of lions, shy leopards and cheetah who hunt these beautiful mountain valleys.
Lolldaiga Hills
Sundowners And Stunning Landscapes
Close to Ol Bobongi House, Lolldaiga Hills has 50,000 acres of untamed valleys and hills with stunning vistas across Laikipia perfect for sundowners and small bites. With abundant game and no crowds, its possible to have the place entirely to yourself.
Local Culture
SA.TU.BO
Empowering Women Through Employment and Education
Book a trip to SA.TU.BO, a progressive collective of women living traditional lives from the Samburu, Turkana and Borana tribes near Segera. With the Land Cruiser and a guide, you will be transported to meet these incredible women, learn their dances, be welcomed into their traditional homes where you will learn about their culture. And, they will teach you traditional beading with opportunities to support their organization by purchasing their traditional crafts. Truly unique. Truly inspiring.
Makena Textile Workshop
Weaving Our Way To Empowerment
Book an excursion to visit the women of Makena to see old world techniques for carding, spinning and weaving wool into works of art. Explore how these retired women use local fleeces, straighten and spin the wool and how handmade warps are suspended from the ceiling to make rugs conceived and constructed by one woman. You can buy treasured keepsakes for your home.
Rose Farms
Innovation and Beauty at the Equator
Book a tour to visit our local rose farms and learn how our region in Kenya produces some of the world’s most incredible roses. Learn about rose cultivation from start to finish. Explore the greenhouses under cultivation, explore the trial areas where the newest roses are being nurtured and visit the sorting room to watch these new and exciting varieties packaged for daily export. The colors and scale is mind blowing. End your day at Kisima and tuck into a local favorite farm to table feast at Entrecote Kisima.
Lifestyle & Adventure
Hiking Mount Kenya
Tackle The High Country
Climbing Mount Kenya with our qualified guide is a treat for any lover of rocky place and remote wild places. Choose your day, choose your route, pack your hiking boots and be ready to hit the trail with a packed lunch, your camera and your binoculars. The views are spectacular and our guide will discuss the history. Birdlife is plentiful and you may also get a chance to spot some new species.
Fishing
Laikipia Lures - Reel Wilderness
Mount Kenya doesn’t just offer superb hiking, its lakes and rivers are abundant with brown trout. Pound some bugs, skate some flies and test your fly fishing skills to get one of these beauties on your line. Enjoy the incredible scenery. We can set you up with a guide and gear.
Canyoning and Rock Climbing
The Roads Not Travelled
Plunge into the Blue Pools in the Ngare Ndare Forest Reserve. Slide down the chutes and explore the tropical forest. All safety equipment is provided and our qualified guides will show you this special place along with qualified canyon guides. An amazing day out for those looking for adventure.
Helicopter Trips
Take Flight And Explore Kenya By Air
As an added cost, you can add a helicopter excursion with Tropic Air. Explore our Laikipia by air and treat yourself to some of the most breathtaking landscapes in East Africa. Visit the upper regions of Mount Kenya for a picnic or fly fishing. Head to the more remote deserts of Turkana including the Suguta Valley and visit the people of the Turkana and Pokot. See Samburu from the air around Ol Lolowke and follow the Ewaso Nyiro River. Check out the Rift Valley and fly over the soda lakes filled with flamingoes.
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