An award-winning private house built into a hillside on the Borana Conservancy in Kenya’s Laikipia, taken in exclusive use, a monastic retreat of stone and light in big-cat and rhino country.
Arijiju is a private house on the Borana Conservancy in Laikipia, built into the hillside from local stone so it seems to grow out of it, monastic, cool and quiet, with the plains and Mount Kenya beyond.
Taken in exclusive use with a chef and staff, it sits within a working rhino conservancy: game drives, horse rides, mountain-biking and walking safaris all leave from the door, and the house itself is an architectural pilgrimage.
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Suites open off cool stone corridors and a great room with a fire, all local materials, monastic lines and long views over the conservancy. A lap pool runs toward the plains.
Taken exclusively, the whole house is yours; a chef and staff run it for your party alone.
A chef cooks to your party alone: Kenyan highland vegetables, garden herbs, good meat and East African flavours, in the great room, the courtyard, or out on the conservancy.
There is no menu but yours; a bush breakfast or a sundowner dinner needs only a word.
Borana is a working conservancy, home to black and white rhino and rich in big cats and elephant. Explore it by game drive, on horseback, by mountain bike or on foot with armed guides.
Fly-camping and a night under the stars are on offer; your designer paces the days and the wildlife.
The house has its own spa and a gym cut into the rock, unusual for the bush, plus the lap pool and yoga with Mount Kenya in view.
The deeper restoration is the architecture and the silence, cool stone, long light, and a whole conservancy around you.
Arijiju runs with a chef, host and Borana’s expert guides, who know the conservancy, the horses and the wildlife intimately.
Behind them sits your Satopia travel designer, who holds the house, times the light flights and stays one call away throughout.
The Laikipia plateau north of Mount Kenya is a mosaic of private conservancies leading African conservation, where wildlife and communities share the land.
Arijiju is its architectural jewel, a private house in a rhino sanctuary, safari and design in one.
Everything here is to help you picture it. Your travel designer handles the arranging: the flights, the cars, the guides, the tents held for you alone.
A monastic stone house taken whole for a milestone safari, staff and all.
Game drives, riding and biking on a rhino conservancy, from a private house.
Architecture worth the trip, with the conservancy and Mount Kenya beyond.
Horseback and walking safaris across a working conservancy.
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The Satopia Advantage™
We hold the relationship with Arijiju and Borana, so we can take the house in exclusive use for your party on your dates. From there a single travel designer composes every day around you. You simply arrive.
The whole house, and its team, held for your party and the season. The access a direct booking rarely reaches.
Every day composed by one travel designer: the drives and the riding, the fly-camps and the light flights, present when wanted, unseen when not.
Drawn from recent guests.
Arijiju sits quietly within Borana, rewarding a much slower pace rather than a rushed visit. The setting invites guests to let the surrounding landscape and its quiet atmosphere work their way into the stay. Arriving without a packed schedule allows the natural calm of the conservancy to set the daily rhythm.
The rustic interiors here are worth pausing for, from the textures to the finishing touches in each space. Ask your host to point out how the design draws on the surrounding landscape. It is this attention to detail, paired with genuinely warm hospitality, that guests remember long after leaving.
Kenya pairs bush with bush and beach. A few we would join to the house, each arranged as one seamless experience.
Big cats and the migration to the south, an easy flight for a second camp.
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Ideal season · June to October, December to March
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Arijiju is taken in exclusive use, priced by night and by season, with conservancy fees additional. The figures shown are indicative. Once we check live availability we confirm an exact, all-in quote for your dates, and nothing is booked and no payment taken until you approve it in writing. A deposit then secures your dates, with the balance due before arrival. The full booking terms, cancellation policy and any security deposit are set out in your confirmation.
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