There's a wholesome glamour to Borana. The lodge is very well pulled together, set in great country and the animal concentrations, which now include wild dogs, are excellent. There's tons to do and great people to do it with. All round, this probably makes Borana one of the best places to stay in Laikipia.

Borana is set on a rocky hillside in Laikipia, overlooking a dam (reservoir) and meandering river valley, in the foothills of Mount Kenya.

Borana is the lodge on a ranch of the same name that most farmers only dream of owning: it's high(6200ft) so it's sunny and cool and rugged - all 35000 acres of it is now increasingly devoted to wildlife, rather than livestock.

When you come to Borana, you get not only private access to these wild acres , but also to the way of life of a family whose ancestors were a part of colonial history.

In 1918, a young Welshman called Llewellyn Powys came out to Kenya to take possession of a farm he was granted in return for his military service in World War One. As he had nothing to put on it, he didn't occupy it immediately but went instead to work for someone else - he was paid in sheep.

When he had enough to form his own flock, he walked them to his new farm, miles across Kenya from the Aberdares to Kisima, a piece of land in the shadow of Mount Kenya. Here he stayed, and married, and had children. And eventually bought more land, including Borana. His children, Gilfred Powys and Rose Dyer still live on this farm, with their children, and their children's children. The story has an almost Amish quality to it, but life for the Dyer family now has bushy tailed bigness to it that also rubs off on the lodge. As you move around the ranch on what become quite busy days, you will almost inevitably rub shoulders with different members of this very friendly family, and might even be invited in for tea.

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