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 .