Lewa-Borana Landscape

Overview Map Where to Stay

A hand-picked selection of lodges and camps. Click through their name to visit their own website directly.

Lewa Safari Camp

A classic tented camp perched above the plains with sweeping views to Mount Kenya, this is Elewana’s original Lewa property — relaxed, personal, and deeply rooted in the conservancy’s story since the 1990s.

Lewa Safari Camp – Exterior
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Lewa Safari Camp – Tent Interior
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Lewa Safari Camp – Lounge
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Lewa House

A family-run camp on Lewa’s western boundary, in the Bush and Beyond family of owner-run properties — earth-pod-style suites overlooking the plains toward the Mathews Range, with rhino tracking, walking safaris and sundowners on the property’s doorstep.

Earth Pod suite, Lewa House
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Earth Pods, Lewa House
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Sundowner overlooking the Mathews Range, Lewa House
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Kifaru House

An intimate Elewana Collection house on the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, one of Kenya’s most successful rhino sanctuaries and the birthplace of Kenya’s modern conservancy model. Just four spacious cottages with fireplaces and private verandas, a communal dining hall built around its own hearth, and game drives that regularly turn up both black and white rhino alongside the Big Five.

Kifaru House
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Kifaru House – Cottage
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Kifaru House – Dining Hall
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Sirai House

An ultra-luxury exclusive-use villa on Borana Conservancy, sleeping up to twelve across six suites — Big Five game drives, horseback safaris and rhino tracking by day, with a private pool, spa and cinema back at the house.

Sirai House, Borana Conservancy
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Sirai House suite
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Game drive near Sirai House, Borana Conservancy
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Sirikoi

A family-run camp on a private inholding within Lewa Wildlife Conservancy — luxury tents, a cottage and an exclusive-use house, with a waterhole overlooked by the deck that regularly draws elephant and other wildlife right up to the camp.

Sirikoi luxury tent interior
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Sirikoi waterhole with elephants, view from deck
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Sirikoi cottage
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Lengishu

A contemporary family home set into a ridge line at the centre of Borana Conservancy, taken on an exclusive-use basis only — a main house and four cottages along the hillside, twelve guests, three nights minimum, with the staff, chef and vehicles yours rather than shared. Every room faces east across the valley and deep into the Northern Frontier, with the pool house turned the other way for the sunset. Borana and Lewa share an unfenced 92,000-hectare rhino habitat, and guests can track rhino on foot at first light or ride out with the anti-poaching team on an evening deployment.

Aerial view of Lengishu set into the ridge line on Borana Conservancy
Photo: J Swynnerton, courtesy of Lengishu
Exterior of Lengishu with the infinity pool looking west across Borana Conservancy
Photo: J Swynnerton, courtesy of Lengishu
Bedroom at Lengishu, Borana Conservancy
Photo: J Swynnerton, courtesy of Lengishu

Il Ngwesi Eco Lodge

Il Ngwesi is owned and run by the Mukogodo Maasai community, one of Kenya’s first community-led lodges, and its conservancy sits on the corridor running north from Lewa and Borana into the rangelands beyond. The lodge is reached through Lewa, a drive of about two hours. Six open-fronted bandas, hand-built from local materials and each named for an animal, with open-air showers and a star bed that rolls out onto the deck. There is no Wi-Fi and no television. Days are walking safaris with Maasai guides, and a 300-hectare rhino sanctuary is run with Lewa. Every shilling earned goes back into the community.

Thatched open-fronted bandas in the bush at Il Ngwesi Eco Lodge, Il Ngwesi Conservancy
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Bed under a mosquito net in an open-fronted banda at Il Ngwesi Eco Lodge, looking out over the bush
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Breakfast laid on a deck looking out over the plains at Il Ngwesi Eco Lodge
Photo: Teddy Mitchener, courtesy of Il Ngwesi Eco Lodge