If you digest travel writing on the regular, you’ve likely heard the phrase (eye rolls at the ready) ‘trip of a lifetime’ more than enough. But you’re going to have to forgive me, please, because I can’t think of a better way to describe my formative experience of Africa and, more significantly, Kenya.
The adventure began with a flight on a tiny plane from Nairobi airport to the Borana Conservancy’s barely-there landing strip. The pilot warned us rather too casually that it ‘may have a few animals loitering on it’ because the area was a wildlife preserve and Kenya’s newest rhino sanctuary. Made up of 32,000 acres on the rolling Laikipia Plateau near Mount Kenya, the Conservancy is where Lengishu lodge is nestled, a serene, 12-person residence of four vast, homely cottages and several outbuildings built and thatched by local craftsmen to reflect the warm, eclectic Kenyan spirit and style.
