Beyond Kenya Safaris

Reteti House, Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy

An expansive, exclusive-use African ecolodge. Designed to be a platform for conservation, Reteti House is an exclusive offering available to families and groups searching for Africa as seen from an insider’s perspective.

Uniquely crafted for exclusive use, Reteti House is set in Northern Kenya’s remote Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy, which spans 850,000 acres of wilderness. A 10-minute walk from Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, Reteti House is Northern Kenya’s most coveted location, providing guests with a front-row seat to the extraordinary conservation work of Reteti.

Sustainably constructed with natural materials from the area, the house echoes the landscape’s neutral tones to create a cool and relaxing atmosphere inside. The house features a spectacular central lounge and infinity pool overlooking the elephant waterhole.

Framed by dramatic cliffs that play host to Egyptian vultures, klipspringers and resident leopards, Reteti House offers the perfect platform to experience abundant wildlife and birdlife. Namunyak Conservancy is also home to the second largest population of elephants in Kenya, over 450 reticulated giraffes, the critically endangered Grévy Zebra and a host of other species, including the fabled Gerenuk!

House in the Wild, Maasai Mara

House in the Wild is a family-owned boutique lodge on the Mara River’s banks. It’s tucked away in Naretoi, a private, 1,000-acre estate within the Enonkishu Conservancy on the Maasai Mara National Reserve’s edge. Every cottage is spacious, blending contemporary design with traditional African flair; and each features a private veranda with game-filled river views.

Once an intensive farm, Naretoi is the first project of its kind where land fringing the Mara has reverted back from agriculture to wilderness. This pioneering ‘rewilding’ scheme has seen rangelands around House in the Wild return to their natural state, with wildlife subsequently coming back after more than a decade of intensive farming.

Using grazing animals as the drivers of habitat creation, and with the restoration of dynamic, natural water courses, the project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife.