Deep in the heart of Laikipia, one of Kenya’s most spectacular game viewing areas stands the perfectly restored, colonial-era Mukima House, with its twin gables, cedar framed windows, and large, sweeping verandahs overlooking rolling lawns towards the private dam. In the distance, the snow-capped peaks of Africa’s second highest mountain.
Set within 360 private acres of the African bush and on velvet lawns dotted with lavender and embellished with a shaded tennis court and an oval swimming pool, this timber and stone mansion could as easily stand in the home counties of England as it could in Kenya’s heartland.
Except that in front of it rise the jagged peaks of Africa’s only Equatorial volcano, Mount Kenya, or that should you take an evening drive to one of the several neighboring conservancies, you can be surrounded by elephants within thirty minutes.
Hotel Mukima House is a top-class hotel in Nanyuki, Laikipia .
