Kipalo Hills – 2022 E.A. Resident Rates (Kshs)

No charge below 6yrs.

Includes: full board accommodation, mineral water, tea & coffee; guided game walks, One game drive in conservancy.

Excludes: drinks from the bar; spa treatments; park fees for Tsavo National Parks adult Ksh1000 and children Ksh500 per person, also
Conservancy fees of adult Ksh.1200 and children Ksh. 600 per day per; sundowner trips and bush breakfasts; cultural visits to local
Taita villages, game drives to Tsavo National Parks (Ksh12,000 per vehicle) fly camping (Ksh.2,500pp min 4 pax), airstrip transfers from
Kilaguni and Finch Hatton (Ksh 15,000 per vehicle per way).

Overview of Kipalo Hills

Kipalo Hills is Perched on the side of the Mbulia Hills, Kipalo Hills enjoys fantastic views looking out across the 12,000 acres Mbulia Conservancy towards Ngulia Hills and Mount Kilimanjaro in the distance. A comfortable camp with delicious, fresh innovative cuisine and 8 luxurious double tents built to take the best advantage of the beautiful expansive views across the plains. Kipalo Hills was built with the people and for the local community to benefit from protecting the resident wildlife, especially elephants.

Accommodation

Each of the eight luxury double mobile tents has an en-suite flushing loo and a traditional safari shower. The tents are either twin or double with room for an extra bed. The tents are located far apart and all enjoy wonderful views of the spectacular scenery and impenetrable wilderness across the Mbulia Conservancy plains that stretch as far as the eye can see! A luxury suite is also available.

Double Room Tent

Each of the eight luxury double mobile tents has an en-suite flushing loo and a traditional safari shower. The tents are either twin or double with room for an extra bed. The tents are located far apart and all enjoy wonderful views of the spectacular scenery and impenetrable wilderness across the Mbulia Conservancy plains that stretch as far as the eye can see!

The Luxury Suite

The Luxury suite at Kipalo is a spacious and elegantly decorated room with a living room, double bed, and outdoor bathroom covered by a massive tent with a natural rock veranda offering incredible views across the Tsavo plains.

Activities

There are plenty of things to fall in love with within Kenya but one of the easiest is the tradition of the ‘sundowner’. Straddling the Equator, the sun goes down in Kenya at much the same time all year-round. But it does so spectacularly – typically in a blaze of gold-tinged pink (but deep red in Tsavo thanks to the red soil) – that watching the sun go down has become something of a national pastime and a firm favorite with visitors. Planned to coincide with the end of the late afternoon game drive (if in the park), the sundowner setting may comprise of folding canvas safari chairs, drinks, a campfire, and of course a stunning view!

Our custom-built safari vehicles offer comfort, panoramic viewing, dedicated safari guides, refreshments on-board, and radio links for the fast location of the game. Easy access to Tsavo West and East National Parks allows for fantastic game viewing in Kenya’s largest and one of the oldest National Parks. The game drives are often timed to coincide with sundowners in the bush. A night game drive, permitted only on private reserves and conservancies, is a specialized activity, which typically takes place after dinner in a vehicle specially equipped with warm blankets, hot drinks, and a powerful hand-held lamp, which is used to sweep the bush for likely sightings. Night-time is the exclusive domain of hunters such as lions and leopards, and the only time when you may catch a glimpse of such elusive nocturnal creatures such as aardvarks, civet cats, white-tailed mongoose, and cape hares. Fortunately, these can be arranged on the private conservancies that our properties are located in.