Ol Donyo Wuas Lodge is a 20 bed luxury lodge (including 4 beds in our private bush home) in the Amboseli region in south-east Kenya. Ol Donyo Wuas is located in the heart of the Mbirikani Maasai conservation area on the slopes of the Chyulu Hills National Park. The recently re-built new lodge has magnificent views of Mount Kilimanjaro with beautiful, spacious bedrooms (which are amongst the most attractive in all of East Africa), with décor that is both luxurious as well as homely and comfortable in the tradition of the greatest wildlife lodges.

Special care has been taken to create a menu that is exciting as it is varied. Since the lodge re-opened in July 2008, all our guests have raved about the lodge, the food, our people and the experience.

10 Reasons to visit Ol Donyo Wuas Lodge

1. The lodge is located in one of the most spectacular and scenic locations in all of East Africa with Mount Kilimanjaro as one of the focal points, in a wildlife area that is one of the few in Kenya where all of the “Big 5” can be found running free and wild.
2. The lodge is the only safari lodge located on the 275,000 acre Mbirikani Group Ranch, offering the Amboseli experience, but without the crowds and without minibuses.
3. The lodge is over two decades old, but was completely rebuilt in 2008 to cater for 21st century travellers. The new lodge and facilities are arguably the most impressive in all of Kenya.
4. The lodge is one of a very few in Africa to offer your own private “villa” experience – your own lodge-within-a-lodge. These two bedroomed villas have their own private lounge and swimming pool. They have been designed for those who demand that extra privacy. These villas are perfect too for families who require that their children are under the same roof, at the same time affording parents their privacy. Special children’s safari activities are offered to keep them stimulated and active while affording their parents peace and romance.
5. The lodge has an all-inclusive tariff regarding all activities, all meals, all local drinks and house wines and laundry are included in the fare.
6. Ol Donyo Wuas probably offers the largest selection of activities in all of Africa. Included are game drives in 4x4 Landcruisers; night drives; walks with armed guides; half and full-day horse safaris (with a choice of over 20 quality horses that suit both advanced and novice riders); mountain biking on the open plains; close-up, safe, elephant experiences in the lodges open-air “log-jam’ hide; sleep-outs on the Kopjes at “Seduction Rock”; romantic star-bed sleep-outs on your rooftop; bush breakfasts; dinners under the stars, authentic Maasai cultural visits; tracking with bloodhounds, massages and much much more.
7. The lodge’s community outreach programme, managed through The Maasailand Preservation Trust, is one of the most comprehensive in all of Africa. ODW’s pioneering and successful “Predator Compensation Scheme” has stopped the retaliatory killing of lions throughout the area and has now been extended to cover the region around Amboseli Reserve, even though our guests seldom have need to visit the reserve.
8. The Maasailand Preservation Trust employs and deploys over 100 game scouts that patrol the region, one of the reasons why the Lodge’s enormous 80 to 100 pounder tuskers are alive and thriving today.
9. The lodge is in its final stages of negotiations with the Maasai community to create a 23,000 acre wildlife conservancy around the lodge with the lease payments for this conservancy being paid directly to our Maasai stakeholders out of our bed night revenues.
10. Easy and reliable daily air-access from Nairobi to the lodge’s own private airfield, with convenient onward connections to the Masai Mara, Laikipia and elsewhere.