If your holiday in Kenya is based at the coast, take this opportunity to spend some time at Shimba. It will give you a taste of safari life, a glimpse of wildlife and a hint of the diversity of the ecosystem that Kenya has to offer. A mere forty-five minutes drive from the Indian Ocean, this spectacular award winning, wooden tree lodge overlooks a waterhole in the middle of a tropical rainforest. After the heat and humidity of the sea level, Shimba is cool and refreshing.
The 192 square kilometer Shimba National Reserve is the last remaining habitat of the sable antelope in East Africa. These rare animals are well worth seeing, as are the elephants, colobus monkeys, giraffe, buffalo and, if you are lucky, leopard. On a clear day, you can see the outline of Usambara Mountains in Tanzania.
If you would like to spend a night at Shimba Hills Lodge, it has 30 rooms and all rooms have balcony vantage points overlooking the waterhole. The rooms are small but very well designed and cheerfull with big windows, twin beds and a ceiling fan. Guests share clean, bright, communal bathroom facilities. The dining room is a covered verandah - you dine in the open air overlooking the floodlit waterhole where animals come to drink in the evening. There's a special atmosphere of a night in the jungle - the rasp of cicadas, the croak of frogs, the scream of bush babies who often visit the bar for titbits.
Rate per person in Mini Bus: US$ 150 or Euro 115
Child (upto 11 years): US$ 120 or Euro 95
Minimum 2 People - Maximum 6 People in
Minibus. Rate for 1 person available on request here.....
