Loisaba Lodo Springs

By scheduled light aircraft from Nairobi's Wilson airport to Loisaba airstrip, about an hour in the air. Safarilink and AirKenya each fly the route once a day, and from the airstrip it is a drive of fifteen to twenty minutes to the camp. The aircraft carry soft bags only, fifteen kilograms a person including hand luggage.

For your own timings we can arrange a private charter, typically a Cessna Caravan or a Pilatus PC-12, landing at Loisaba airstrip when it suits you, which also makes it simple to fly in straight from the Maasai Mara or another conservancy without going back through Nairobi. Coming by road from Nanyuki is possible too.

Yes. TravelHealthPro, the UK's official travel health service, rates Kenya as high risk for malaria and recommends antimalarial tablets, setting apart only the city of Nairobi and the highlands above 2,500 metres. The American CDC draws the same line, listing every part of Kenya below 2,500 metres, game parks and conservancies included. Loisaba lies on the Laikipia plateau between roughly 1,400 and 2,000 metres, well below it.

We are travel planners, not medical professionals, so which tablets suit you, and what is right for a child, are questions for your own doctor or a travel clinic, asked with your dates in hand. The practical side we can speak to: the evenings are cool, but cover arms and legs from late afternoon and keep repellent close.

It is the most private of the three. Lodo Springs has only eight tented rooms, and each has its own safari vehicle, field guide and dedicated host for the whole stay, so the days run to your timetable. The rooms are large, with floor-to-ceiling glass, antique and vintage furniture and wide verandas looking over the Laikipia plains towards Mount Kenya, and there is an infinity pool.

Loisaba Tented Camp is the larger camp, with twelve tents including family tents, on the edge of the escarpment above a busy waterhole. The Starbeds are something else again: four-poster beds rolled out on raised platforms under the open sky among rocks above Kiboko Dam. A night on the Starbeds pairs well with a stay at either of the other two.

Yes, they are back. Black rhino had been gone from Loisaba since 1976 until January 2024, when the Kenya Wildlife Service moved 21 eastern black rhino, ten bulls and eleven cows, from Nairobi National Park, Ol Pejeta and Lewa into a fenced sanctuary covering nearly half the conservancy. In August 2025 ten southern white rhino followed from Meru National Park and Lewa, so both species now live on Loisaba.

Sightings depend on where the rhino choose to be on the day, and your guide will know the best chance. Rhino are one part of the picture: Loisaba sits on one of Kenya's most important elephant corridors and holds lion, leopard, cheetah, African wild dog, Grevy's zebra and reticulated giraffe.

A great deal, because Loisaba is a private conservancy, not a national park, so walking and night driving are both allowed. Night drives with a spotlight find the animals of the dark. Walks go out with Samburu guides, short or half a day, and you never walk alone. Confident riders can ride, anyone can join a camel trek, and there is escorted mountain biking or e-biking.

Bush breakfasts, sundowners and a visit to a Samburu village fill out the days. The conservancy's anti-poaching unit works with bloodhound tracker dogs, and guests can watch a tracking demonstration. Fishing in the rivers and dams depends on the rains, and a helicopter flight can be arranged on request. Tell us which appeal and we will have them arranged before you arrive.

The dry months, July to September and January to February, when the grass is short and the game gathers along the rivers and dams. March, June, October and December sit between seasons. The long rains fall in April and May and the short rains in November, when the plateau turns green, the birding peaks, the light softens and you share the conservancy with very few others.

Loisaba is high on the Laikipia plateau, so days are warm under a strong sun and dawns are properly cold, colder still in an open vehicle or on a night drive. Pack a fleece or down jacket and a warm hat, light neutral clothes, a wide-brimmed hat and high-factor sun cream, closed shoes for walking and a light waterproof in the wet months.