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Kongoni Game Valley Villa |
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KONGONI GAME VALLEY VILLA - LAKE NAIVASHA:
Kongoni Game Valley is a private park on the shores of lake Naivasha in Kenya's Great Rift valley only 120 km. from Nairobi. As an exclusive Safari Club it offers excellent and personalized attention to only a small number of guests.
The traditional up-country Kenya house with wide open verandas and a nice swimming pool looks out across gardens to the beautiful waters of lake Naivasha. The house is attractively furnished in an early 20th century style with large bedrooms each with private bathroom en suite.
Guests can relax in comfort and enjoy superb home cooked gourmet meals.
On the hilly terrain and Masai Land can be found many zebra, impala, giraffe and other game. Guests can take a game drive by four wheel drive vehicles or take guided walks. Boatmen are available for excursions on the lake to view the large colony of hippos and the many species of birds.
Kongoni Game Valley is ideally positioned to favour daily excursions to Lake Nakuru National Park, Hell's Gate National Park, Masai Mara and Samburu National Park.
Kongoni Game Valley still preserves the natural beauty of this land and it's wildlife. The property covers an area of some 1,000 hectares between the hills and the plain. There are many tracks crossing the area. It is a unique experience to be alone with the animals away from the busy lodges and herds of mini-buses.
Two Range Rovers and one Land Rover with drivers allow you to go for game drives on the property at any time. For excursions outside the residence, it is possible to rent a car or we can provide a mini-bus or the Kongoni cars for your excursions.
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Accommodation:
The main house offers 6 elegant large (approx. 30m2) double bedrooms with bathroom and one single bedroom, accessible from the interior patio, two verandas with panoramic views, two spacious sitting rooms and a large fully equipped kitchen. At the back of the house, between the euphorbia trees, there are two independent pretty cottages in the same style as the main house; each cottage has three luminous double bedrooms, en-suite bathrooms, a small living room and kitchen. The house is laid out on a single level, the walls are in blocks of sculpted stone and the roof is of traditional red clay roofing-tile, the interior walls are lined with boiserie. Both the house and cottages are decorated in original English colonial style but with an exotic touch giving by Arabic style furnishings from Lamu. All the bathrooms have hot and cold water. The electricity is 220 volts and the plug is a square three pin plug as in the UK. |
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Staff:
There are over 20 staff to look after the guests every need: 2 chefs, 4 waiters, 2 drivers, 4 watchmen, 3 gardeners, 4 laundress for the washing and drawing frame in all day. The Manager of Kongoni, Mrs. Gianna Brighetti, speaks Italian, English, French and Spanish fluently.
Dining:
The kitchen is run by two excellent chefs who can prepare international, Italian or local dishes. Meals are served beside the swimming pool, on the veranda or in one of the sitting rooms. Alcoholic beverages and wine are not included but are available. |
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Activities:
All activities within the boundaries of the property are included in the rate. Kongoni is the ideal location to savour the atmosphere of "OUT OF AFRICA". You can go on game drives both during the day and night, you can hike in the bush with Masai guides, you can drink tea at sunset in the observatory where you can watch the animals, you can make an excursion by boat on the lake and discover more than 400 species of birds and the many hippos, or more simply, you can get a tan by the swimming pool or play croquet on the lawns.
By car in 5 minutes you can visit the delightful Crater lake, in 10 minutes Hell’s Gate national park, in 15 minutes the main lake of Naivasha and in 1-hour Nakuru lake, world famous for its pink flamingos.
Kongoni is also an ideal base for air safaris, there is a runway on the property and another only 10 minutes from us. The Masai Mara can be reached in 40 minutes, the Amboseli and the Mount Kenya in 1 hour and a half. |
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LAKE NAIVASHA:
Spread out over 110 square kilometres, a pearl in the bosom of the Kenya Rift, the waters of Lake Naivasha glisten silver as the sun slopes swiftly towards the west. Purest and highest of all the Rift lakes, Naivasha is also a bird sanctuary without peer. Over 400 species have been recorded here.
Lake Naivasha is a stunning freshwater lake, fringed by thick papyrus. The lake is almost 13kms across, but its waters are shallow with an average depth of five metres. Lake area varies greatly according to rainfall, with an average range between 114 and 991 sq kms. At the beginning of the 20th Century, Naivasha totally dried up and in effect, disappeared. The resulting open land was farmed, until heavy rains a few years later caused the lake to return to existence, swallowing up the newly established estates. The lake and its surrounds are abundant in natural bounty, and the fertile soils and water supply have made this one of Kenya's prime agricultural regions.
Afternoon wind and storms can cause the Lake to become suddenly rough and produce high waves. For this reason, the local Maasai christened the lake En-aiposha meaning "rough water", which the British later misspelled as Naivasha.
Much of the lake is surrounded by forests of the yellow barked Acacia Xanthophlea, known as the yellow fever tree. The forests abound with bird life, and Naivasha is known as a world class birding destination. The waters of the lake draws a great range of game to these shores. Giraffe wander among the acacia, Buffalo wallow in the swamps and Colobus monkeys call from the treetops while the Lakes large Hippo population sleep the day out in the shallows.
It was on these shores that Joy Adamson fostered Elsa and her cubs, the heroine of her wildlife classic, "Born Free". Now Adamson's home, Elsamere, is a living memorial - a wildlife education centre and museum.
The area surrounding the Lake is well worth exploring. There are two smaller lakes nearby, Oloidien, and Sonachi, a dazzling green cater lake. Hell's Gate National Park lies beside the lake. This Park was named for its pair of enormous red tinged cliffs framing a geo-thermically active interior of steam vents and bubbling springs.
The park is home to an abundance of plains game and birdlife. Walking is permitted, making it ideal for hiking, biking, and rock climbing. Boat trips on the lake are widely available, and is a great way to spend an afternoon or morning. Sunsets are always spectacular, with the haunting call of a Fish Eagle high over the Lake bringing the day to a perfect end. |
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