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Borana Lodge lies on the edge of the Samangua Valley. It has panoramic views of Mount Kenya, across the Lewa Plains to the Ngare Ndare Forest. The lodge was built is 1992 by local artisans. Only local building materials and dead wood from the ranch were used in its construction. The result is a supremely comfortable and luxurious lodge, which seems to have grown organically from the rocks on which it was built.

Built primarily for privacy, each cottage is exclusively sited with its own special view, totally secluded from neighbors. This ensures guests have a chance to appreciate the wilderness and loneliness of Africa. There is a central eating and sitting area with leather sofas surrounding a huge fireplace with picture windows looking onto the valley below. A massive rosewood table invites guests to gather for meals made with vegetables and farm produced on the farm, freshly squeezed juice from the orchard and wines from around the world.

From the lodge, guests can see a dam, which fills with floodwater acting as a local watering hole for all the wildlife in the area. There is also a game blind built right on the edge of the dam so that visitors may go down and see the activity at close range: elephants swimming is a favorite.