The Big Five & Gorillas

For golf enthusiasts, Karen Country Club and Windsor Golf Club both offer excellent 18-hole courses with unique features such as flowering plants, lakes, and wetlands. Windsor Golf Club, designed by Tom Macauley, winds its way through native woods and coffee fields, with springy fairways, true greens, water hazards, sand bunkers, and punishing rough.

If you’re looking for a wildlife experience, the Mara North Conservancy is a private wilderness that covers over 30,000 hectares and is home to various species of plants, reptiles, birds, and mammals, including elephants, rhinoceroses, buffaloes, lions, leopards, and cheetahs. You can also visit the nearby Maasai Mara National Reserve for a game drive and observe the famous Serengeti wildebeest migrations and the critically endangered African wild dog and black rhino species.

For an extraordinary experience, you can embark on a hot air balloon safari above the Maasai Mara and enjoy the little things like animal trails, flowers, and micro-ecosystems by leaving the automobile behind.

Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge, nestled in the foothills of the Virunga Mountains, is the perfect place to stay while you seek out the rare mountain gorillas. You’ll have the opportunity to observe these beautiful primates in their natural habitat, foraging, playing, eating, or sleeping. Though the journey to reach them may be difficult, the reward is worth it, and you’ll have a chance to visit the place where Dian Fossey conducted her revolutionary research.

Finally, you can search for the golden monkeys, a unique species to the Volcanoes National Park’s high-altitude woodlands, and observe them racing after each other in circles or swinging through bamboo. You’ll see their gorgeous reddish-gold backs as they leap amid the thick undergrowth of the forest floor.